KJV King James Version
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.
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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.
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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 three 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 received and held three 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 received and held three thousand baths.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
And its thickness is a handbreadth, and its lip as the work of the lip of a cup flowered with lilies; taking hold—baths three thousand it containeth.
Surrounding context — 2 Chronicles 4
2 Also he made a molten sea of ten cubits from brim to brim, round in compass, and five cubits the height thereof; and a line of thirty cubits did compass it round about.
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.
4 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.
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.
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.
7 And he made ten candlesticks of gold according to their form, and set [them] in the temple, five on the right hand, and five on the left.
8 He made also ten tables, and placed [them] in the temple, five on the right side, and five on the left. And he made an hundred basons of gold.
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וְעָבְי֣וֹH5672 · a.vithicknessטֶ֔פַחH2947 · te.phachhandbreadthוּשְׂפָתוֹ֙H8193 · sa.phahlipsכְּמַעֲשֵׂ֣הH4639 · ma.a.sehdeed: workשְׂפַת־H8193 · sa.phahlipsכּ֔וֹסH3563 · koscupפֶּ֖רַחH6525 · pe.rachflowerשֽׁוֹשַׁנָּ֑הH7799 · shu.shanlilyמַחֲזִ֣יקH2388 · cha.zaqto strengthen: strengthenבַּתִּ֔יםH1324 · batbathשְׁלֹ֥שֶׁתH7969 · sha.loshthreeאֲלָפִ֖יםH505 · e.lephthousandיָכִֽיל׃ סH3557 · kulto sustain
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