KJV King James Version
And the cedar of the house within [was] carved with knops and open flowers: all [was] cedar; there was no stone seen.
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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.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
The cedar paneling inside the temple was carved with gourds and open flowers. Everything was cedar; not a stone could be seen.
WEB World English Bible
There was cedar on the house within, carved with buds and open flowers: all was cedar; there was no stone seen.
ASV American Standard Version
And there was cedar on the house within, carved with knops and open flowers: all was cedar; there was no stone seen.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
And the cedar for the house within is carvings of knobs and openings of flowers; the whole is cedar, there is not a stone seen.
Surrounding context — 1 Kings 6
15 And he built the walls of the house within with boards of cedar, both the floor of the house, and the walls of the cieling: [and] he covered [them] on the inside with wood, and covered the floor of the house with planks of fir.
16 And he built twenty cubits on the sides of the house, both the floor and the walls with boards of cedar: he even built [them] for it within, [even] for the oracle, [even] for the most holy [place].
17 And the house, that [is], the temple before it, was forty cubits [long].
18 And the cedar of the house within [was] carved with knops and open flowers: all [was] cedar; there was no stone seen.
19 And the oracle he prepared in the house within, to set there the ark of the covenant of the LORD.
20 And the oracle in the forepart [was] twenty cubits in length, and twenty cubits in breadth, and twenty cubits in the height thereof: and he overlaid it with pure gold; and [so] covered the altar [which was of] cedar.
21 So Solomon overlaid the house within with pure gold: and he made a partition by the chains of gold before the oracle; and he overlaid it with gold.
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וְאֶ֤רֶזH730 · e.rezcedarאֶל־H413 · elto(wards)הַבַּ֙יִת֙H1004 · betplaceפְּנִ֔ימָהH6441 · pe.ni.mahwithinמִקְלַ֣עַתH4734 · miq.la.atengravingפְּקָעִ֔יםH6497 · pe.qagourdוּפְטוּרֵ֖יH6362 · pa.tarto separateצִצִּ֑יםH6731 · tsitsflowerהַכֹּ֣לH3605 · kolallאֶ֔רֶזH730 · e.rezcedarאֵ֥יןH369 · a.yinnothingאֶ֖בֶןH68 · e.venstoneנִרְאָֽה׃H7200 · ra.ahto see: see
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