What Does 2 Chronicles 4:14 Mean in the King James?
He made also bases, and lavers made he upon the bases;
The analysis reads the King James wording.
King James Version The King James Version, first published in 1611. Selah Verse shows the standard text.
THE KEY
The cleansing vessels do not stand alone: what washes is carried by what has been made firm.
THE MEANING
The verse places cleansing within a structure: the basins rest on supports made to bear them. What cleanses has a stable place in which to function, so the foundation beneath the act belongs to the act itself.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It loosens the belief that cleansing is a free-floating moment; what washes is held by a foundation beneath it.
THE ROOT
מְכֹנוֹת
mekhonot
GROWS FROM
כון
kun
To be firm, established, or prepared.
The word translated “bases” comes from כון (kun), a root of firmness and preparation: these supports are things set in place to bear what rests above them. The same root-family holds both a fixed place and the act of making something ready, joining support with readiness.
ALSO GROWS
mākôn: A fixed place, dwelling, or foundation.
מָכוֹן
The basins rest on a prepared place; this branch makes the base a place that holds what it serves.
hēkhîn: To prepare or make ready.
הֵכִין
The base is not incidental: it is prepared to bear the laver above it.
nākôn: Firm, established, or ready.
נָכוֹן
This branch carries the quality the supports provide: steadiness for the vessels they hold.
THE PATTERN
What a work can do depends on the foundation that holds it.
Thou shalt also make a laver of brass, and his foot also of brass, to wash withal: and thou shalt put it between the tabernacle of the congregation and the altar, and thou shalt put water therein.Therefore whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock:For other foundation can no man lay than that is laid, which is Jesus Christ.THE THREAD
The LORD by wisdom hath founded the earth; by understanding hath he established the heavens.The root כון (kun, “be firm, establish”) behind “bases” appears again in כוֹנֵן (kōnēn, “established”) in Proverbs. Here that firmness is physical: the basins rest on supports; there, the heavens themselves are established.
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