μεχωνωθ
stands, bases
Where this word appears
Every passage where μεχωνωθ appears in the Greek Septuagint — 20 occurrences in all. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text is shown in the LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- 1 Kings 7:14 μεχωνωθ the son of a widow woman; and he was of the tribe of Nephthalim, and his father was a Tyrian; a worker in brass, and accomplished in are and skill and knowledge to work every work in brass: and he was brought in to king Solomon, and he wrought all the works.
- 1 Kings 7:14 μεχωνωθ the son of a widow woman; and he was of the tribe of Nephthalim, and his father was a Tyrian; a worker in brass, and accomplished in are and skill and knowledge to work every work in brass: and he was brought in to king Solomon, and he wrought all the works.
- 1 Kings 7:15 μεχωνωθ And he cast the two pillars for the porch of the house: eighteen cubits was the height of each pillar, and a circumference of fourteen cubits encompassed it, even the thickness of the pillar: the flutings were four fingers wide, and thus was the other pillar formed.
- 1 Kings 7:17 μεχωνωθ And he made two ornaments of network to cover the capitals of the pillars; even a net for one chapiter, and a net for the other chapiter.
- 1 Kings 7:18 μεχωνωθ And hanging work, two rows of brazen pomegranates, formed with network, hanging work, row upon row: and thus he framed the ornaments for the second chapiter. 21 And he set up the pillars of the porch of the temple: and he set up the one pillar, and called its name Jachum: and he set up the second pillar, and called its name Boloz.
- 1 Kings 7:20 μεχωνωθ and a chamber over both the pillars, and above the sides an addition equal to the chamber in width.
- 1 Kings 7:20 μεχωνωθ and a chamber over both the pillars, and above the sides an addition equal to the chamber in width.
- 1 Kings 7:21 μεχωνωθ
- 1 Kings 7:21 μεχωνωθ
- 1 Kings 7:23 μεχωνωθ And he made the sea, ten cubits from one rim to the other, the same was completely circular round about: its height was five cubits, and its circumference thirty-three cubits.
- 1 Kings 7:24 μεχωνωθ And stays underneath its rim round about compassed it ten cubits round;
- 1 Kings 7:24 μεχωνωθ And stays underneath its rim round about compassed it ten cubits round;
- 1 Kings 7:25 μεχωνωθ And there were twelve oxen under the sea: three looking to the north, and three looking to the west, and three looking to the south, and three looking to the east: and all their hinder parts were inward, and the sea was above upon them.
- 1 Kings 7:29 μεχωνωθ And upon their borders between the projection were lions, and oxen, and cherubs: and on the projections, even so above, and also below were the places of lions and oxen, hanging work.
- 1 Kings 7:29 μεχωνωθ And upon their borders between the projection were lions, and oxen, and cherubs: and on the projections, even so above, and also below were the places of lions and oxen, hanging work.
- 2 Kings 16:17 μεχωνωθ And king Achaz cut off the borders of the bases, and removed the laver from off them, and took down the sea from the brazen oxen that were under it, and set it upon a base of stone.
- 2 Kings 25:13 μεχωνωθ And the Chaldeans broke to pieces the brazen pillars that were in the house of the Lord, and the bases, and the brazen sea that was in the house of the Lord, and carried their brass to Babylon.
- 2 Kings 25:16 μεχωνωθ Two pillars, and one sea, and the bases which Solomon made for the house of the Lord: there was no weight of the brass of all the vessels.
- 2 Chronicles 4:14 μεχωνωθ And he made the ten bases, and he made the lavers upon the bases;
- 2 Chronicles 4:14 μεχωνωθ And he made the ten bases, and he made the lavers upon the bases;
About this word
About this word
μεχωνωθ (mechōnōth), “stands, bases,” is a word from the Greek Septuagint — the ancient Greek translation of the Hebrew Old Testament. It does not occur in the Greek New Testament, so it carries no Strong’s number from Thayer’s (New-Testament) lexicon; the gloss shown here is a curated modern-English sense rather than a Strong’s definition. It appears 20 times across the Septuagint — open the Appearances tab to read it in context.
The gloss above is Lemma’s own curated sense — this word carries no Strong’s number, so no lexicon we ship has an entry for it. The transliteration and this passage list are computed here from the tagged Septuagint text. What Lemma adds →