There were four supports at the four corners of each base: the supports of it were of the base itself.
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There were four supports at the four corners of each base: the supports of it were of the base itself.
And there were four undersetters to the four corners of one base: and the undersetters were of the very base itself.
And four shoulders to the four corners of one stand, from the stand its shoulders.
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There were four supports at the four corners of each base: the supports of it were of the base itself.
Each stand had four handles, one for each corner, projecting from the stand.
Each stand had four handles, one for each corner, projecting from the stand.
And there were four undersetters to the four corners of one base: and the undersetters were of the very base itself.
And there were four undersetters at the four corners of each base: the undersetters thereof were of the base itself.
And there were four undersetters at the four corners of each base: the undersetters thereof were of the base itself.
And foure vndersetters were vpon the foure corners of one base: and the vndersetters thereof were of the base it selfe.
And the four undersetters that were at every corner of each base, were of the base itself cast and joined together.
And four shoulders `are' unto the four corners of the one base; out of the base `are' its shoulders.
And four shoulders [are] for the four corners of the one base; its shoulders [are] out of the base.
There were four handles at the four corners of each stand, forged into the stand itself.
And four shoulders to the four corners of one stand, from the stand its shoulders.
And there were four shoulder-pieces to the four corners of one base; of the base itself were its shoulder-pieces.
There were four supports at the four corners of each base. Its supports were of the base itself.
And there were four undersetters to the four corners of one base: and the undersetters were of the very base itself.
Each cart had four handles, one on each corner, made as part of the stand.
And there were four angle-plates at the four angles of every base, forming part of the structure of the base.
And there were four undersetters at the four corners of each base; the undersetters thereof were of one piece with the base itself.
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Notable vocabulary
The rarest word here is הַמְּכֹנָ֖ה pedestal H4350 — appearing just 24 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.
Shared distinctive vocabulary
הַמְּכֹנָ֖ה pedestal H4350 occurs in 18 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:
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Hebrew & Septuagint length
In English translation the verse runs 20 words from the Hebrew and 19 from the Septuagint (LXX English) — closely comparable.
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The same verse in the two great witnesses to the Old Testament, shown verse-for-verse.
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וְאַרְבַּ֣ע כְּתֵפ֔וֹת אֶ֚ל אַרְבַּ֣ע פִּנּ֔וֹת הַמְּכֹנָ֖ה הָֽאֶחָ֑ת מִן הַמְּכֹנָ֖ה כְּתֵפֶֽיהָ
There were four supports at the four corners of each base: the supports of it were of the base itself.
World English Bible · Public Domain
καί δίδωμι ὁ βασιλεύς σαλωμών ὁ σκεῦος ὅς ποιέω ἐν οἶκος κύριος ὁ θυσιαστήριον ὁ χρυσοῦς καί ὁ τράπεζα ἐπί ὅς ὁ ἄρτος ὁ προσφορά χρυσοῦς
The four side pieces were at the four corners of each base; its shoulders were formed of the base.
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 →
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.
וְאַרְבַּע כַּתְפִין לְאַרְבַּע זִוְיָן דִבְסִיסָא חֲדָא מִן בְּסִיסָא כַּתְפָהָא:
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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.
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1 Kings, in the Historical, opens this verse with 10 words (7 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is mᵉkôwnâh (“pedestal”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Commentary
Notes on 1 Kings 7:34 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
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
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
John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible (1746–1763) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.
Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible (1834–1885) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.
Matthew Poole's English Annotations
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
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
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
John Wesley, Explanatory Notes Upon the Whole Bible (1754–1765) — public domain. Text via the GEBible commentary corpus.
unfoldingWord translationNotes
Door43 World Missions Community
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)
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.