1 Kings 7:37

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) 1 Kings 7:37 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 7:37 (World English Bible). Public Domain. Lemma interlinear Bible study tool, https://lemma.gebible.app/v/1-kings/7/37.

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After this manner he made the ten bases: all of them had one casting, one measure, and one form.
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The same verse in 3 English versions, stacked beneath the original-language interlinear above. Click any original word for its lexicon entry.

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  • World English Bible Public Domain
    After this manner he made the ten bases: all of them had one casting, one measure, and one form.
  • King James Version Public Domain
    After this manner he made the ten bases: all of them had one casting, one measure, and one size.
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
    Like this he made the ten stands. One casting, one size, one shape to all of them.

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
    After this manner he made the ten bases: all of them had one casting, one measure, and one form.
  • Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
    In this way he made the ten stands, each with the same casting, dimensions, and shape.
  • Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
    In this way he made the ten stands, each with the same casting, dimensions, and shape.
  • King James Version Public Domain
    After this manner he made the ten bases: all of them had one casting, one measure, and one size.
  • American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
    After this manner he made the ten bases: all of them had one casting, one measure, and one form.
  • Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
    After this manner he made the ten bases: all of them had one casting, one measure, and one form.
  • Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
    Thus made he the tenne bases, They had all one casting, one measure, and one syse.
  • Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
    After this manner he made ten bases, of one casting and measure, and the like graving.
  • Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
    Thus he hath made the ten bases; one casting, one measure, one form, have they all.
  • Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
    Thus he has made the ten bases; they all have one casting, one measure, one form.
  • Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
    He made the ten stands in this manner. All of them were cast in the same molds, and they had one size, and the same shape.
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
    Like this he made the ten stands. One casting, one size, one shape to all of them.
  • Darby Bible Public Domain
    After this [manner] he made the ten bases: all of them had one casting, one measure, one form.
  • World Messianic Bible Public Domain
    He made the ten bases in this way: all of them had one casting, one measure, and one form.
  • Webster's Bible Public Domain
    After this manner he made the ten bases: all of them had one casting, one measure, and one size.
  • Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
    This is how he made the ten carts, with the same casts, size, and shape.
  • Bible in Basic English Public Domain
    All the ten bases were made in this way, after the same design, of the same size and form.
  • JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
    After this manner he made the ten bases; all of them had one casting, one measure, and one form.

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מוּצָ֨ק
mûwtsâq
H4165
“casting”
Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute
Part of Speech
Noun
Type
Common
Gender
Masculine
Number
Singular
State
Absolute
Full BDB Definition

Origin: from H5694

TWOT: 897b

a casting
  1. כָּזֹ֣את zôʼth H2063 “like/as · this” Preposition + Pronoun, Demonstrative, Feminine, Singular
  2. עָשָׂ֔ה ʻâsâh H6213 “to do” Verb, Qal, Perfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular
  3. אֵ֖ת ʼêth H853 “-” Particle, Direct Object
  4. עֶ֣שֶׂר ʻeser H6235 “ten” Adjective, Cardinal number, Feminine, Singular, Absolute
  5. הַמְּכֹנ֑וֹת mᵉkôwnâh H4350 “the · pedestals” Particle, Definite Article + Noun, Common, Feminine, Plural, Absolute
  6. אֶחָ֜ד ʼechâd H259 “one” Adjective, Cardinal number, Masculine, Singular, Absolute
  7. מִדָּ֥ה middâh H4060 “measure” Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute
  8. אַחַ֛ת ʼechâd H259 “one” Adjective, Cardinal number, Feminine, Singular, Absolute
  9. קֶ֥צֶב qetseb H7095 “cut” Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute
  10. אֶחָ֖ד ʼechâd H259 “one” Adjective, Cardinal number, Masculine, Singular, Absolute
  11. לְכֻלָּֽהְנָה kôl H3605 “to/for · all · their” Preposition + Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct + Suffix, Personal, 3rd Person, Feminine, Plural

About this verse

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12
words
10
distinct lemmas
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section

Notable vocabulary

The rarest word here is מוּצָ֨ק casting H4165 — appearing just 3 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.

Shared distinctive vocabulary

מוּצָ֨ק casting H4165 occurs in 3 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:

Grammatical profile

  • 1 verb
  • 5 nouns
  • 4 adjectives
  • 1 pronoun
  • 1 particle

Verb forms

  • עָשָׂ֔ה Qal · Perfect

Repetition

A word recurs within this verse — often emphatic in Hebrew:

  • אֶחָ֜ד one H259 ×3

Hebrew & Septuagint length

In English translation the verse runs 19 words from the Hebrew and 19 from the Septuagint (LXX English) — the same length.

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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.

Hebrew and Greek witnesses Masoretic Hebrew ↔ Greek Septuagint

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Hebrew 1 Kings 7:37 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

כָּזֹ֣את עָשָׂ֔ה אֵ֖ת עֶ֣שֶׂר הַמְּכֹנ֑וֹת מוּצָ֨ק אֶחָ֜ד מִדָּ֥ה אַחַ֛ת קֶ֥צֶב אֶחָ֖ד לְכֻלָּֽהְנָה

After this manner he made the ten bases: all of them had one casting, one measure, and one form.

World English Bible · Public Domain

Greek LXX 1 Kings 7:37 Septuagint · lemma form

καί ἀναπληρόω πᾶς ὁ ἔργον ὅς ποιέω σαλωμών οἶκος κύριος καί εἰςφέρω σαλωμών ὁ ἅγιος δαυίδ ὁ πατήρ αὐτός καί πᾶς ὁ ἅγιος σαλωμών ὁ ἀργύριον καί ὁ χρυσίον καί ὁ σκεῦος δίδωμι εἰς ὁ θησαυρός οἶκος κύριος

According to the same form he made all the ten bases, even one order and one measure to all.

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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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)
    כַּהֲדָא עֲבַד יַת עֲסַר בְּסִיסַיָא מַתָּךְ חָד מְשַׁחְתָּא חֲדָא עוֹבָדָא חַד לְכוּלְהוֹן:

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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 7:37 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 7:37 After this [manner] he made the ten bases: all of them had one casting, one measure, [and] one size.

Ver. 37. All of them had one casting.] To teach uniformity about the things of God. It is a sweet thing when "with one mind and one mouth God is glorified" as "the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ," {Rom 15:6} and men’s prayers come before him "as the sound of many waters."

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

37. one size] Better, ‘one form.’ See on 1Ki_6:25.

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

Then made he ten lavers of brass,.... There was but one in the tabernacle of Moses, and what became of that is not known: some Jewish writers (c) say it was placed in Solomon's temple, and these lavers, five on the right and five on the left of it; however, here were enough provided for the purpose for the priests to wash their burnt offerings in, Ch2 4:6 and were typical of the large provision made in the blood of Christ for the cleansing of his people; whose works, services, and sacrifices, as well as persons and garments, need continual washing in that blood; see Rom 12:1,

one laver contained forty baths; and a bath, according to Bishop Cumberland (d) held seven wine gallons, and two quarts and half a pint:

and every laver was four cubits: that is, square; this was the diameter of it:

and upon every of the ten bases one laver; for which they were made, even to set the lavers on, and were exactly of the same measure.

(c) Targum, Jarchi, and Kimchi, in 2 Chron. iv. 6. (d) Scripture Weights and Measures, c. 3. p. 70, 71.

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

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible

Daniel D. Whedon

37. One casting — They were all ten cast in one mould, so as necessarily to be of one measure, and one size or shape.

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

After this manner he made the ten bases: all of them had one casting, one measure, and one size.

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

Rashi

Rabbi Shlomo Yitzchaki (Rashi)

All cast in the same manner. As he cast the first [base], he similarly cast them all.

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.

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1 Kings, in the Historical, opens this verse with 12 words (10 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is mûwtsâq (“casting”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

  1. What does “casting” (mûwtsâq) contribute to the verse as a whole?
  2. 1 Kings 7:23 shares the word «casting» with this verse. How do the two illuminate each other?
  3. “one” occurs 3× in this one verse. What is the effect of the repetition?
  4. These translations render this verse differently; the difference is in the English rendering, not the original. What questions does that raise?
  5. The verb «עָשָׂ֔ה» is Qal Perfect. How does its form color the action?
  6. 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?

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