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1 Kings 7:11

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) 1 Kings 7:11 appears in the Hebrew Old Testament. The text above is from the Westminster Leningrad Codex. Each word links to its Strong’s number, a concise gloss, and parsing drawn from the Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible morphology. Click any word for its full Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB) entry.
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1 Kings 7:11 (World English Bible). Public Domain. Lemma interlinear Bible study tool, https://lemma.gebible.app/v/1-kings/7/11.

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Above were costly stones, even hewn stone, according to measure, and cedar-wood.
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  • World English Bible Public Domain
    Above were costly stones, even hewn stone, according to measure, and cedar-wood.
  • King James Version Public Domain
    And above were costly stones, after the measures of hewed stones, and cedars.
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
    And from above valuable stones, according to the measurements of hewn stone, and cedar.

unfoldingWord Literal Text — © unfoldingWord, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Word-aligned USFM3 via Door43 (git.door43.org/unfoldingWord/en_ult).

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  • World English Bible Public Domain
    Above were costly stones, even hewn stone, according to measure, and cedar-wood.
  • Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
    Above these were high-grade stones, cut to size, and cedar beams.
  • Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
    Above these were costly stones, cut to size, and cedar beams.
  • King James Version Public Domain
    And above were costly stones, after the measures of hewed stones, and cedars.
  • American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
    And above were costly stones, even hewn stone, according to measure, and cedar-wood.
  • Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
    And above were costly stones, even hewn stone, according to measure, and cedar wood.
  • Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
    Aboue also were costly stones, squared by rule, and boardes of cedar.
  • Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
    And above there were costly stones, or equal measure, hewed; and, in like manner, planks of cedar:
  • Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
    and above `are' precious stone, according to the measures of hewn work, and cedar;
  • Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
    and precious stones [are] above, according to the measures of hewn work, and cedar;
  • Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
    Above were costly hewn stones precisely cut to size, and cedar beams.
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
    And from above valuable stones, according to the measurements of hewn stone, and cedar.
  • Darby Bible Public Domain
    And above were costly stones, hewn stones, according to the measures, and cedar.
  • World Messianic Bible Public Domain
    Above were costly stones, even cut stone, according to measure, and cedar wood.
  • Webster's Bible Public Domain
    And above were costly stones, after the measures of hewn stones, and cedars.
  • Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
    On these were placed top-quality stones, cut to size, along with cedar timber.
  • Bible in Basic English Public Domain
    Overhead were highly priced stones cut to measure, and cedar-wood.
  • JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
    And above were costly stones, after the measure of hewn stones, and cedar-wood.

Literal Standard Version (2020), Covenant Press — licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Text via the HelloAO Bible API (eBible.org). Unlocked Literal Bible (unfoldingWord) — licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Text via the HelloAO Bible API (eBible.org). unfoldingWord Literal Text — © unfoldingWord, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Word-aligned USFM3 via Door43 (git.door43.org/unfoldingWord/en_ult). Free Bible Version, Dr. Jonathan Gallagher — licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Text via the HelloAO Bible API (eBible.org).

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Notable vocabulary

The rarest word here is גָּזִ֖ית hewing H1496 — appearing just 11 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.

Shared distinctive vocabulary

גָּזִ֖ית hewing H1496 occurs in 11 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:

Grammatical profile

  • 4 nouns
  • 1 adjective
  • 1 adverb
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Topical passages linked to 1 Kings 7:11 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.

  • Ephesians 2:20–22 being built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the chief cornerstone;
  • 1 Peter 2:5 You also, as living stones, are built up as a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.

Cross-references courtesy of OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0).

Hebrew and Greek witnesses Masoretic Hebrew ↔ Greek Septuagint

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Hebrew 1 Kings 7:11 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

וּמִלְמַ֗עְלָה אֲבָנִ֧ים יְקָר֛וֹת כְּמִדּ֥וֹת גָּזִ֖ית וָאָֽרֶז

Above were costly stones, even hewn stone, according to measure, and cedar-wood.

World English Bible · Public Domain

Greek LXX 1 Kings 7:11 Septuagint · lemma form

καί ὑποστήριγμα ὑποκάτωθεν ὁ χεῖλος αὐτός κυκλόθεν κυκλόω αὐτός δέκα ἐν πῆχυς κυκλόθεν ἀναἵστημι ὁ θάλασσα

No English rendering of this Greek verse — the small residue in the structurally divergent books.

Hebrew: Westminster Leningrad Codex (CC BY 4.0). Greek: Septuagint (public domain); English from a public-domain English Septuagint. How the Septuagint differs from the Hebrew →

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The Targum is the ancient Jewish Aramaic paraphrase of the Hebrew Scriptures — an interpretive translation, not the Hebrew text itself. Onkelos (literal) and Pseudo-Jonathan (expansive) render the Torah, and Jonathan the Prophets. Coverage is partial: where no permissively-licensed English translation exists for a verse, only the Aramaic is shown. This is verse-level text, not a word-by-word alignment to the Hebrew.

  1. Targum Jonathan Prophets (Joshua–Malachi)
    וּמִלְעֵלָא אַבְנִין טָבָן כְּמִשְׁחַת גָזִית וַחֲפֵי נִסְרִין דְאַרְזָא:

    (no public-domain English translation for this verse)

    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 7:11 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 7:11 And above [were] costly stones, after the measures of hewed stones, and cedars.

Ver. 11. And above were costly stones.] Above ground, as well as under.

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.

Geneva Bible (1599)

Geneva Bible translators

From the foundation upward.

Geneva Bible (1599) marginal notes — public domain. Text via Bolls.life.

The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne

11. And above] i.e. The courses which lay upon the foundations.

after the measures of hewed stones] Render (as in 9) hewn stone according to measure.

and cedars] The noun is singular. It refers not to any beams that formed part of the wall, but to the cedar facings with which the interior stone work in many places was covered. R.V. cedar-wood.

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

And the great court round about,.... Which surrounded Solomon's house:

was with three rows of hewed stones, and a row of cedar beams; these rows were one upon another, and were a wall to the court, which were either topped with a row of cedar wood, or that was a lining to the stones

for the inner court of the house of the Lord; or rather as, or like to that, as appears from Kg1 6:36,

and for the porch of the house; not the temple, but Solomon's house.

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

Matthew Poole's English Annotations

Above, i.e. in the roof or upper part; for this is opposed to the foundation. Costly stones and cedars, intermixed here the one, and there the other.

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible (1683–1685) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible

Daniel D. Whedon

11. And above — In the upper parts of the buildings.

Daniel D. Whedon (gen. ed.), Commentary on the Old and New Testaments (1874–1909) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

The Pulpit Commentary

And above i.e., upon the foundation stones just described were costly stones, after the measures of hewed stones It is implied here that the stones of the superstructure were less than those of the foundation. It is also implied that the former were more carefully smoothed and. faced than the latter and cedars. Heb. cedar.

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

John Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Above - That is, in the upper part; for this is opposed to the foundation. Stones and cedars - Intermixed the one, and the other.

John Wesley, Explanatory Notes Upon the Whole Bible (1754–1765) — public domain. Text via the GEBible commentary corpus.

unfoldingWord translationNotes

Door43 World Missions Community

cedar beams

A beam is a long piece of wood used for structural support.

three rows of cut stone and a row of cedar beams

See how you translated this in 1 Kings 6:36.

translationWords

cedar

court

palace

temple

Yahweh

unfoldingWord translationNotes — © Distant Shores Media and the Door43 World Missions Community, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Source: git.door43.org/Door43/en_tn.

Rashi

Rabbi Shlomo Yitzchaki (Rashi)

And above it were precious stones. And above the stones used for the foundation were precious stones, until the ceiling as he mentioned above.

And cedars. [Targum Yonoson rendered,] “And he covered with boards of cedar,” as it is stated, “and he covered the floor with cedar.”

Rashi on the Tanakh — English translations: “The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg” (CC BY 4.0); “Pentateuch with Rashi's commentary by M. Rosenbaum and A.M. Silbermann, 1929-1934” (public domain); “The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J” (CC BY 4.0); and “The Book of Joshua, Metsudah Publications, 1997” (CC BY 4.0). Text via Sefaria.

Lesson kit

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1 Kings, in the Historical, opens this verse with 6 words (6 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is gâzîyth (“hewing”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

  1. How does “hewing” (gâzîyth) shape what this verse is saying?
  2. Exodus 20:25 shares the word «hewing» with this verse. How do the two illuminate each other?
  3. The translations on this page render this verse differently — a whole-verse word diff, not a word-by-word alignment. What might account for the different wordings?
  4. Reading how Trapp's Complete Commentary and Geneva Bible (1599) read this verse, where do the two commentators agree and where do they part?

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