What Does Jeremiah 52:22 Mean in the King James?
And a chapiter of brass was upon it; and the height of one chapiter was five cubits, with network and pomegranates upon the chapiters round about, all of brass. The second pillar also and the pomegranates were like unto these.
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 network is the same Hebrew lattice that appears as an opening through which Ahaziah falls, so the pillar’s crown is openwork rather than a solid cap.
THE MEANING
You see a bronze capital rising five cubits above the pillar, with latticework and pomegranates circling it; the second pillar repeats the same form. Its crown is an open, patterned surface carrying pomegranate-shaped ornament around the structure.
THE ROOT
שְׂבָכָה
seḇāḵāh
GROWS FROM
שׂבך
ś-b-k
Interweave or intertwine; form an open lattice or mesh.
“network” in this verse is seḇāḵāh. The word points to interlaced openwork: the same Hebrew form names the lattice around pillar capitals and a lattice opening in an upper chamber. Its concrete range keeps the ornament from reading as a solid cap; it is a permeable woven surface.
ALSO GROWS
seḇāḵîm: Latticeworks or networks.
שְׂבָכִים
This plural form names the repeated latticework around the temple pillar capitals in 1 Kings 7:17.
haśśəbāḵāh: The lattice or openwork screen.
הַשְּׂבָכָה
In 2 Kings 1:2, the same word names the upper-chamber lattice through which Ahaziah falls.
THE PATTERN
Pomegranate ornament repeatedly marks the edges of sacred clothing and the crowns of sacred pillars.
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: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.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.THE THREAD
And Ahaziah fell down through a lattice in his upper chamber that was in Samaria, and was sick: and he sent messengers, and said unto them, Go, enquire of Baal-zebub the god of Ekron whether I shall recover of this disease.The Hebrew uses the same word, שְׂבָכָה (seḇāḵāh, lattice), for the pillar’s bronze ornament and the upper-chamber lattice through which Ahaziah falls. Here it frames a crown with openwork; in Kings, the same woven boundary is an opening a body can fall through.
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