Knobelsdorff, ErsxAcnius of, a German Roman Catholic theologian, was born of noble parentage in 1519, at Heilsberg, Prussia ; was educated at the universities of Frankfort-on-the-Oder, Lcipzig,Wittenberg, and Par- is, and upon the completion of his studies took orders in the Church. During a visit of the bishop and car- dinal of Wermeland to Pome, Knobelsdorff administered the duties of th» episcopal office, and in 1563, upon the return of the bishop, was appointed dean-cathedral. He died in 1571. His writings are of but little account. See AUyem. Hist. Lex. iii. 41.
Knock (-B-l,Cant. v, 2; '-beat," Judg. xix, 22; Kpoino, 'Slntt. vii, 7 ; Rev. iii, 20, etc.), " Though Orien- tals arc very jealous of their privacy, they never knock when about to enter your room, but walk in without warning or ceremony. It is nearly impossible to teach an Arab servant to knock at your door. They give warning at the outer gate or entrance either by calling or knocking. To stand and c(dl is a very common and respectful mode. Thus ]\Ioscs commanded the holder of <a ]iledge to stand without, and call to the owner to come forth (Deut, xxiv, 10), Tliis was to avoid the vio- lent intrusion of cruel creditors, Peter stood knocking at the outer door (Acts xii, 13, 16), and so did the three men sent to Joppa b}' Cornelius (Acts x, 17,18), The idea is that the guard over your privacy is to be placed at the entrance to your premises" (Thomson, Land and Book, i, 192 sq,). See House.
Knollis, FuANCTS, a distinguished English states- man, was born at Grays, Oxfordsliire, about ]'530. He studied at the University of Oxford, Admitted at court, he showed great zeal for the lleformaticm, and wlien queen Mary ascended the throne he was obliged to retire
to the Continent, At Elizabeth's accession lie returned, became privy counsellor, treasurer of the queen's house- hold, and knight of the Garter, He was one of the judges of Mary Stuart, He died in 1596. Knollis wrote a trea- tise on the Usuipation of papal Bishops (1608, 8vo). See 'riirner, History of the lieiyn of Edicard VI, Mary, and Elizabeth ; Rose, New General Biographical Diction- ary ; Hoefer, Nouv. Bioy. Gin. xxvii, 915, (J. N. P.)
Knollys, ILvNsAKn, an eminent English Baptist minister, was born in Chalk well, Lincolnshire, in 1598. He was educated at the University of Cambrulge, and after his graduation was ordained as a deacon, and then as a presbyter of the Church of England, and was pre- sented by the bishop of Lincohi with the living at Hum- berstone. About 1632, beginning to doubt the lawful- ness of conformity to the Clnirch of England, he resign- ed his living, but continued to preach several j-ears lon- ger. In 1636 he was arrested for preaching tjie Gos- pel, and thrown into prison ; but his keeper, being con- science-stricken, connived at his escape, and he came over to America early in 1638. He arrived at Boston, Masg., a persecuted fugitive, in a state of utter destitu- tion, and was obliged to work daily at manual labor for his subsistence. At first he met with a cold reception in Boston, which was then in a ferment on the question of Antinomianism, and suspicious of all new-comers ; but, being invited to preach in Dover, N. H,, he went thither, and in 1638 founded the first church in that place. He returned to England in 1641, where he spent the next fifty years of his life, during that most agitated period of English history, and died Sept. 19, 1691. Mr. Knollys was an able minister, a most accomplished teacher of j'outh, a bold pioneer of religious liberty, a man of large public spirit, and pre-eminently great in the purity of his character. He published a little work on the Rudiments of Hebrew Grammar (1648, 12mo); also Elnminf) Fire in Zion (1646, 4to) ; and his Autobi- oyraphy in 1672, which was brought down to his death by ^Vm, Kirtin (1692, 8vo; 1813, 12mo), See Sprague, Annals of the A merican Pulpit, vi, 1. (J. L. S.)
Kiiop, that is, Kxob (Anglo-Saxon cnceji), a word employed in the A.Y. to translate two terms, of the real meaning of which all that we can say with certainty is that they refer to some architectural or ornamental ob- ject, and that they have nothing in common.
1. Kaphtor' (~i1PS3 or "IPSS) occurs in the descrip- tion of the candlestick of the sacred tent (Exod. xxv, 31-36, and xxxvii, 17-22, the two passages being iden- tical). The knops are here distingiushed from the shaft, branches, bowls, and flowers of the candlestick ; but the knop and the flower go together, and seem intended to imitate the produce of an almond-tree. In another part of the work they appear to form a boss, from which the branches are to spring out from the main stem. In Amos ix, 1 the same word is rendered, with doubtful ac- curacy, " lintel," The same rendering is used in Zeph. ii, 14. where the reference is to some part of the palace of Nineveh, to be exposed when the wooden upper stor}' — the " cedar work" — was destroyed. The Hebrew word seems to contain the sense of " covering" and '• crown- ing" (Gcsenius, Thes. Heb. p, 709), Josephus's descrip- tion (.4??^iii,6,7) names both balls {crcpaipia) and pome- granates (po'i(TKoi), cither of which may be the hiphtor. The Targum agrees with the latter, the Sejit. {^(jxnfHoTii- pfc) with the former. See Lintk.l. — Smith. All these circumstances point to a signification corresponding es- sentially to that of crorcn ; and in the case of the sacred candelabrum, the term seems to point to a sharp orna- mental swell placed (like a horizontal button ) immedi- ately beneath the cups that surmounted each arm and section of the shaft. See Tabeunaci.e.