What Does 2 Chronicles 4:13 Mean in the King James?

And four hundred pomegranates on the two wreaths; two rows of pomegranates on each wreath, to cover the two pommels of the chapiters which were upon the pillars.

2 Chronicles 4:13 · KJV

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King James Version The King James Version, first published in 1611. Selah Verse shows the standard text.

This verse in the Selah Decoded Version

THE KEY

The covering is itself measured ornament: four hundred pomegranates form two ordered rows over the pillars’ crowns.

THE MEANING

For you, the verse makes the finish visible: four hundred pomegranates sit in two rows on each wreath, covering the capitals of the pillars. Their count and placement make beauty part of the completed design.

THE ROOT

לְכַסּוֹת

lĕkassōṯ

GROWS FROM

כסה

kāsāh: to cover, conceal, or cover over

The verb ⁨לְכַסּוֹת⁩ (lĕkassōṯ, to cover) comes from ⁨כָּסָה⁩ (kāsāh, to cover). The root keeps the action concrete: the pomegranates cover the capitals, just as the same Hebrew root describes a cloud covering a mountain.

ALSO GROWS

kissāh: he covered

כִּסָּה

This verb form shares the root ⁨כסה⁩ (kāsāh, to cover) and names the completed act that the pomegranate rows perform.

mekhasseh: covering; one who covers

מְכַסֶּה

This participle keeps the same root consonants and names the one or thing doing the covering.

THE PATTERN

Sacred ornament takes shape through repeated forms placed around hems, networks, and capitals.

And he made the pillars, and two rows round about upon the one network, to cover the chapiters that were upon the top, with pomegranates: and so did he for the other chapiter.

1 Kings 7:18 · KJVPomegranates repeat in two rows over a network to cover each capital, echoing this verse’s measured crown-covering.

And beneath upon the hem of it thou shalt make pomegranates of blue, and of purple, and of scarlet, round about the hem thereof; and bells of gold between them round about:

Exodus 28:33 · KJVPomegranates repeat around the garment hem, extending the same deliberate ornament along a sacred edge.

THE THREAD

And Moses went up into the mount, and a cloud covered the mount.

Exodus 24:15 · KJV

Exodus 24:15 uses the same root, ⁨כסה⁩ (kāsāh, to cover), when a cloud covers the mountain. The shared verb places the crafted covering of the pillar capitals beside a cloud’s covering of a mountain.

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