KJV King James Version
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.
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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 baths.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
It was a handbreadth thick, and its rim was fashioned like the brim of a cup, like a lily blossom. It could hold two thousand baths.
WEB World English Bible
It was a handbreadth thick: and its brim was worked like the brim of a cup, like the flower of a lily: it held two thousand baths.
ASV American Standard Version
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.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
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.
Surrounding context — 1 Kings 7
23 And he made a molten sea, ten cubits from the one brim to the other: [it was] round all about, and his height [was] five cubits: and a line of thirty cubits did compass it round about.
24 And under the brim of it round about [there were] knops compassing it, ten in a cubit, compassing the sea round about: the knops [were] cast in two rows, when it was cast.
25 It stood upon twelve oxen, three looking toward the north, and three looking toward the west, and three looking toward the south, and three looking toward the east: and the sea [was set] above upon them, and all their hinder parts [were] inward.
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 baths.
27 And he made ten bases of brass; four cubits [was] the length of one base, and four cubits the breadth thereof, and three cubits the height of it.
28 And the work of the bases [was] on this [manner]: they had borders, and the borders [were] between the ledges:
29 And on the borders that [were] between the ledges [were] lions, oxen, and cherubims: and upon the ledges [there was] a base above: and beneath the lions and oxen [were] certain additions made of thin work.
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וְעָבְי֣וֹH5672 · a.vithicknessטֶ֔פַחH2947 · te.phachhandbreadthוּשְׂפָת֛וֹH8193 · sa.phahlipsכְּמַעֲשֵׂ֥הH4639 · ma.a.sehdeed: workשְׂפַת־H8193 · sa.phahlipsכּ֖וֹסH3563 · koscupפֶּ֣רַחH6525 · pe.rachflowerשׁוֹשָׁ֑ןH7799 · shu.shanlilyאַלְפַּ֥יִםH505 · e.lephthousandבַּ֖תH1324 · batbathיָכִֽיל׃ פH3557 · kulto sustain
Cross-references
2 Chronicles 4:5And 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 45:14Concerning 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:1 Kings 7:38Then 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.1 Kings 6:18And the cedar of the house within [was] carved with knops and open flowers: all [was] cedar; there was no stone seen.1 Kings 7:19And the chapiters that [were] upon the top of the pillars [were] of lily work in the porch, four cubits.1 Kings 6:35And he carved [thereon] cherubims and palm trees and open flowers: and covered [them] with gold fitted upon the carved work.Jeremiah 52:21And [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.1 Kings 6:32The 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.
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