1 Kings 6:25

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex)

English Translation

The other cherub was ten cubits: both the cherubim were of one measure and one form.

World English Bible · Public Domain

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1 first appearance in the Hebrew Bible

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וְקֶ֥צֶב

qetseb

H7095

“and · cut”

Conjunction + Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute

Appears 3× in the Hebrew Bible
First appears here

Full BDB Definition

Origin: from H7094

TWOT: 2052a

cut, shape, extremity, form, base - cut, shape - extremity

About this verse

These counts appear in no published source. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged text and Lemma’s own curated glosses. What Lemma adds →

10: words
8: distinct lemmas
Historical: section

Notable vocabulary

The rarest word here is וְקֶ֥צֶב cut H7095 — appearing just 3 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.

First appearance in Scripture

This word makes its first canonical appearance in the Hebrew Bible here:

וְקֶ֥צֶב cut H7095

Shared distinctive vocabulary

וְקֶ֥צֶב cut H7095 occurs in 3 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:

Grammatical profile

5 nouns
5 adjectives

Repetition

Words recur within this verse — often emphatic in Hebrew:

הַכְּר֖וּב cherub H3742 ×2
אַחַ֛ת one H259 ×2

Hebrew & Septuagint length

In English translation the verse runs 16 words from the Hebrew and 14 from the Septuagint (LXX English) — closely comparable.

A rough comparison of the two English renderings, which tokenize alike — not a word-level alignment.

Word counts can differ between the Hebrew and the Greek without any difference in meaning — e.g. the Hebrew direct-object marker אֵת has no separate Greek word, and Greek often adds the article ὁ.

In the original languages it is 10 Hebrew tokens and 11 Greek tokens — but the two are counted differently (Hebrew bundles its prefixes and suffixes into one token; the Greek is in lemma form), so that isn’t a like-for-like length.

Hebrew and Greek witnesses Masoretic Hebrew ↔ Greek Septuagint

The same verse in the two great witnesses to the Old Testament, shown verse-for-verse.

These are two independent witnesses, not word-aligned to each other, and the Septuagint is shown in lemma (dictionary) form.

Hebrew 1 Kings 6:25 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

וְעֶ֨שֶׂר֙ בָּֽאַמָּ֔ה הַכְּר֖וּב הַשֵּׁנִ֑י מִדָּ֥ה אַחַ֛ת וְקֶ֥צֶב אֶחָ֖ד לִשְׁנֵ֥י הַכְּרֻבִֽים

The other cherub was ten cubits: both the cherubim were of one measure and one form.

World English Bible · Public Domain

Greek LXX 1 Kings 6:25 Septuagint · lemma form

οὕτως ὁ χερουβ ὁ δεύτερος ἐν μέτρον εἷς συντέλεια εἷς ἀμφότεροι

Thus it was with the other cherub, both were alike finished with one measure.

LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) · Public Domain

Hebrew: Westminster Leningrad Codex (CC BY 4.0). Greek: Septuagint (public domain); English from LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) (Public Domain). How the Septuagint differs from the Hebrew →

Targum (Aramaic paraphrase)

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Targum Jonathan Prophets (Joshua–Malachi)

וַעֲסַר אַמִין כְּרוּבָא תִנְיָנָא מִשְׁחָא חֲדָא וְעֶבְרָא חָד לִתְרֵין כְּרוּבַיָא:

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Targum Jonathan — Aramaic: “Mikraot Gedolot” (public domain). English: “Sefaria Community Translation” (CC0 1.0 (public-domain dedication)); “London "Chaldee Paraphrase," 1871” (public domain). Text via Sefaria.

Commentary

Notes on 1 Kings 6:25 from classic Christian and Jewish commentators (each source and its license shown beneath its notes). The classic Christian expositions comment on the surrounding passage and are grouped to its opening verse, so a note may address several verses; the Jewish commentaries on the Tanakh (Rashi and others) are per-verse, so they appear only where the commentator wrote on this verse.

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Trapp's Complete Commentary

John Trapp

1Ki 6:25 And the other cherub [was] ten cubits: both the cherubims [were] of one measure and one size.

Ver. 25. Of one measure, and of one size.] And all according to the pattern given by God to David. Here then is no plea for Popish imagery, or idolatry against the second commandment, unless they can produce a special warrant from the lawmaker, who can, when he pleaseth, dispense with his own law.

John Trapp, A Commentary or Exposition upon All the Books of the Old and New Testament (1647–1656) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne

25. one size] Rather ‘one form.’ The size is implied in the previous word.

The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges (gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne; Cambridge University Press, 1878–1918) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

John Gill's Exposition

The height of the one cherub was ten cubits, and so was it of the other cherub. Which is repeated from Kg1 6:23; that it might be observed, being of an extraordinary size.

; that it might be observed, being of an extraordinary size.

1 Kings 6:27

kg1 6:27

kg1 6:27

kg1 6:27And he set the cherubim within the inner house,.... The holy of holies:

and they stretched forth the wings of the cherubims; the carvers that framed them, they wrought them in that form; or impersonally, the wings of the cherubim were stretched out; this was the position of them, they overshadowed and covered the mercy seat and ark, and even the other two cherubim that were at the ends of the mercy seat:

so that the wing of the one touched the one wall; the southern wall:

and the wing of the other cherub touched the other wall; the northern wall; they reached from wall to wall, even the whole breadth of the house, which was twenty cubits, as their wings thus spread were, Kg1 6:24;

and their wings touched one another in the midst of the house; which was ten cubits, and that was the spread of the wings of each of them; so that the wing of the right side of the one, stretched out, touched the wing of the left side of the other fit the same position; in Ch2 3:13; their faces are said to be "inward", or "toward the house"; either toward the holy place, and so faced those that came into that and saw them; or towards the inner part of the holy of holies, their backs being to the holy place, or their faces were inward, and looked obliquely to each other.

John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible (1746–1763) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.

The Pulpit Commentary

And the other cherub was ten cubits; both the cherubims were of (me measure and one size or shape.

The Pulpit Commentary (1880–1919), ed. H.D.M. Spence-Jones & Joseph S. Exell — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

Lesson kit

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1 Kings, in the Historical, opens this verse with 10 words (8 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is qetseb (“cut”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

The word qetseb carries the sense “cut.” How does it shape the verse?
The word “cut” first appears here in Scripture. What is being introduced at this debut?
1 Kings 7:37 shares the word «cut» with this verse. How do the two illuminate each other?
“cherub” occurs 2× in this one verse. What is the effect of the repetition?
These translations render this verse differently. What is at stake in choosing one wording over another?
Reading how Trapp's Complete Commentary and The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges read this verse, where do the two commentators agree and where do they part?

Things to notice

1 word makes its first canonical appearance in Scripture here.
This verse counts 10 Hebrew ↔ 11 Greek words.
These translations choose different wording for 12 words in this verse.
“cherub” occurs 2× in this single verse.
8 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 10 words in this verse.