1 Kings 7:26New American Standard Bible (NASB ©1995) [2]
— It was a handbreadth thick, and its brim was made like the brim of a cup, [as] a lily blossom; it could hold two thousand baths.
King James Version (KJV 1769) [2]
— And it [was] an hand breadth thick, and the brim thereof was wrought like the brim of a cup, with flowers of lilies: it contained two thousand baths.
English Revised Version (ERV 1885)
— And it was an handbreadth thick; and the brim thereof was wrought like the brim of a cup, like the flower of a lily: it held two thousand baths.
American Standard Version (ASV 1901) [2]
— And it was a handbreadth thick: and the brim thereof was wrought like the brim of a cup, like the flower of a lily: it held two thousand baths.
Webster's Revision of the KJB (WEB 1833)
— And it [was] a hand-breadth thick, and its brim was wrought like the brim of a cup, with flowers of lilies: it contained two thousand baths.
Darby's Translation (DBY 1890)
— And its thickness was a hand-breadth, and its brim was like the work of the brim of a cup, with lily-blossoms; it held two thousand baths.
Rotherham's Emphasized Bible (EBR 1902)
— And, the thickness thereof, was a hand breadth, and, the brim thereof, was like the brim-work of a cup, of lily-blossoms,—two thousand baths, did it contain.
Young's Literal Translation (YLT 1898)
— And its thickness [is] an handbreadth, and its edge as the work of the edge of a cup, flowers of lilies; two thousand baths it containeth.
Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision (DR 1750)
— And the laver was a hand breadth thick: and the brim thereof was like the brim of a cup, or the leaf of a crisped lily: it contained two thousand bates.
Geneva Bible (GNV 1560)
— It was an hand bredth thicke, & the brim thereof was like the worke of the brim of a cup with floures of lilyes: it coteined two thousad Baths.
Original King James Bible (AV 1611) [2]
— And it was an hand breadth thicke, and the brimme thereof was wrought like the brim of a cup, with flowres of lillies: it contained two thousand Baths.
Lamsa Bible (1957)
— And its thickness was a hand-breadth, and its brim was made like the brim of a cup, with lilies; it contained two thousand baths.
Brenton Greek Septuagint (LXX, Restored Names)
— And its rim [was] as the work of the rim of a cup, a lily-flower, and the thickness of it [was] a span.
Full Hebrew Names / Holy Name KJV (2008) [2] [3]
— And it [was] an hand breadth thick, and the brim thereof was wrought like the brim of a cup, with flowers of lilies: it contained two thousand baths. |
And it [ was] an hand breadth
2947 {2947} Primeטֹפַחtephach{tay'-fakh}
From H2946; a spread of the hand, that is, a palm breadth (not 'span' of the fingers); architecturally a corbel (as a supporting palm).
thick,
5672 {5672} Primeעֳבִי`abiy{ab-ee'}
From H5666; density, that is, depth or width.
and the brim
8193 {8193} Primeשָׂפָהsaphah{saw-faw'}
(The second form is in dual and plural); Probably from H5595 or H8192 through the idea of termination (compare H5490); the lip (as a natural boundary); by implication language; by analogy a margin (of a vessel, water, cloth, etc.).
thereof was wrought
4639 {4639} Primeמַעֲשֶׂהma`aseh{mah-as-eh'}
From H6213; an action (good or bad); generally a transaction; abstractly activity; by implication a product (specifically a poem) or (generally) property.
like the brim
8193 {8193} Primeשָׂפָהsaphah{saw-faw'}
(The second form is in dual and plural); Probably from H5595 or H8192 through the idea of termination (compare H5490); the lip (as a natural boundary); by implication language; by analogy a margin (of a vessel, water, cloth, etc.).
of a cup,
3563 {3563} Primeכּוֹסkowc{koce}
From an unused root meaning to hold together; a cup (as a container), often figuratively a lot (as if a potion); also some unclean bird, probably an owl (perhaps from the cup like cavity of its eye).
with flowers
6525 {6525} Primeפֶּרַחperach{peh'-rakh}
From H6524; calyx (natural or artificial); generally bloom.
of lilies:
7799 {7799} Primeשׁוּשָׁןshuwshan{shoo-shan'}
From H7797; a lily (from its whiteness), as a flower or architectural ornament; also a (straight) trumpet (from the tubular shape).
it contained
3557 {3557} Primeכּולkuwl{kool}
A primitive root; properly to keep in; hence to measure; figuratively to maintain (in various senses).
z8686 <8686> Grammar
Stem - Hiphil (See H8818) Mood - Imperfect (See H8811) Count - 4046
two thousand
505 {0505} Primeאֶלֶף'eleph{eh'-lef}
Properly the same as H0504; hence (an ox's head being the first letter of the alphabet, and this eventually used as a numeral) a thousand.
baths.
1324 {1324} Primeבַּתbath{bath}
Probably from the same as H1327; a bath or Hebrew measure (as a means of division) of liquids. |
1 Kings 7:26
Baths — Which amounts to five hundred barrels, each bath containing about eight gallons; the bath being a measure of the same bigness with an ephah. |
1 Kings 7:26
And it [was] an hand breadth thick, and the brim thereof was wrought like the brim of a cup, with flowers of lilies: it contained two thousand (p) baths.
(p) Bath and ephah seem to be one measure, (Ezekiel 45:11) a bath contains about 5 gallons. |
- an hand breadth:
Jeremiah 52:21 And [concerning] the pillars, the height of one pillar [was] eighteen cubits; and a fillet of twelve cubits did compass it; and the thickness thereof [was] four fingers: [it was] hollow.
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- with flowers:
1 Kings 7:19 And the chapiters that [were] upon the top of the pillars [were] of lily work in the porch, four cubits.
1 Kings 6:18 And the cedar of the house within [was] carved with knops and open flowers: all [was] cedar; there was no stone seen.
1 Kings 6:32 The two doors also [were of] olive tree; and he carved upon them carvings of cherubims and palm trees and open flowers, and overlaid [them] with gold, and spread gold upon the cherubims, and upon the palm trees.
1 Kings 6:35 And he carved [thereon] cherubims and palm trees and open flowers: and covered [them] with gold fitted upon the carved work.
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- it contained:
- This immense laver, called a sea from it magnitude, held, at a moderate computation, 16,000 gallons. Besides this great brazen laver, there were in the temple ten lavers of brass of a less size, which moved on wheels, and were ornamented with the figures of various animals, having, probably, always some relation to the cherubim. These lavers were to hold water for the use of the priests in their sacred office, particularly to wash the victims that were to be offered as a burnt offering, as we learn from
2 Chronicles 4:6 He made also ten lavers, and put five on the right hand, and five on the left, to wash in them: such things as they offered for the burnt offering they washed in them; but the sea [was] for the priests to wash in.
; but the brazen sea was for the priests to wash in. The knops are supposed to have been in the form of an ox's head (
2 Chronicles 4:3 And under it [was] the similitude of oxen, which did compass it round about: ten in a cubit, compassing the sea round about. Two rows of oxen [were] cast, when it was cast.
); and some think the water flowed out at their mouths.
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- two thousand:
1 Kings 7:38 Then made he ten lavers of brass: one laver contained forty baths: [and] every laver was four cubits: [and] upon every one of the ten bases one laver.
2 Chronicles 4:5 And the thickness of it [was] an handbreadth, and the brim of it like the work of the brim of a cup, with flowers of lilies; [and] it received and held three thousand baths.
Ezekiel 45:14 Concerning the ordinance of oil, the bath of oil, [ye shall offer] the tenth part of a bath out of the cor, [which is] an homer of ten baths; for ten baths [are] an homer:
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