KJV King James Version
And he carved [thereon] cherubims and palm trees and open flowers: and covered [them] with gold fitted upon the carved work.
VERSE STUDY • KJV
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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BSB Berean Standard Bible
He carved into them cherubim, palm trees, and open flowers, and he overlaid them with gold hammered evenly over the carvings.
WEB World English Bible
He carved cherubim and palm trees and open flowers; and he overlaid them with gold fitted on the engraved work.
ASV American Standard Version
And he carved thereon cherubim and palm-trees and open flowers; and he overlaid them with gold fitted upon the graven work.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
And he hath carved cherubs, and palms, and openings of flowers, and overlaid with straightened gold the graved work.
Surrounding context — 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.
33 So also made he for the door of the temple posts [of] olive tree, a fourth part [of the wall].
34 And the two doors [were of] fir tree: the two leaves of the one door [were] folding, and the two leaves of the other door [were] folding.
35 And he carved [thereon] cherubims and palm trees and open flowers: and covered [them] with gold fitted upon the carved work.
36 And he built the inner court with three rows of hewed stone, and a row of cedar beams.
37 In the fourth year was the foundation of the house of the LORD laid, in the month Zif:
38 And in the eleventh year, in the month Bul, which [is] the eighth month, was the house finished throughout all the parts thereof, and according to all the fashion of it. So was he seven years in building it.
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וְקָלַ֤עH7049 · qa.lato slingכְּרוּבִים֙H3742 · ke.ruvcherubוְתִ֣מֹר֔וֹתH8561 · tim.rahpalmוּפְטֻרֵ֖יH6362 · pa.tarto separateצִצִּ֑יםH6731 · tsitsflowerוְצִפָּ֣הH6823 · tsa.phahto overlayזָהָ֔בH2091 · za.havgoldמְיֻשָּׁ֖רH3474 · ya.sharto smoothעַל־H5921 · aluponהַמְּחֻקֶּֽה׃H2707 · cha.qahto engrave
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