1 Kings 7:45

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) 1 Kings 7:45 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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and the pots, and the shovels, and the basins: even all these vessels, which Hiram made for king Solomon, in the house of Yahweh, were of burnished brass.
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  • World English Bible Public Domain
    and the pots, and the shovels, and the basins: even all these vessels, which Hiram made for king Solomon, in the house of Yahweh, were of burnished brass.
  • King James Version Public Domain
    And the pots, and the shovels, and the basins: and all these vessels, which Hiram made to king Solomon for the house of the LORD, were of bright brass.
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
    and the pots and the shovels and the bowls. And all of these vessels that Hiram made for King Solomon the house of Yahweh polished bronze.

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
    and the pots, and the shovels, and the basins: even all these vessels, which Hiram made for king Solomon, in the house of Yahweh, were of burnished brass.
  • Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
    and the pots, shovels, and sprinkling bowls. All the articles that Huram made for King Solomon in the house of the LORD were made of burnished bronze.
  • Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
    and the pots, shovels, and sprinkling bowls. All the articles that Huram made for King Solomon in the house of the LORD were made of burnished bronze.
  • King James Version Public Domain
    And the pots, and the shovels, and the basins: and all these vessels, which Hiram made to king Solomon for the house of the LORD, were of bright brass.
  • American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
    and the pots, and the shovels, and the basins: even all these vessels, which Hiram made for king Solomon, in the house of Jehovah, were of burnished brass.
  • Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
    and the pots, and the shovels, and the basons: even all these vessels, which Hiram made for king Solomon, in the house of the LORD, were of burnished brass.
  • Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
    And pottes, and besomes and basens: and all these vessels, which Hiram made to King Salomon for the house of the Lord, were of shining brasse.
  • Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
    And the caldrons, and the shovels, and the basins. All the vessels that Hi- ram made for king Solomon for the house of the Lord, were of fine brass.
  • Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
    and the pots, and the shovels, and the bowls; and all these vessels, that Hiram hath made to king Solomon `for' the house of Jehovah, `are' of brass -- polished.
  • Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
    and the pots, and the shovels, and the bowls; and all these vessels, that Hiram has made for King Solomon [for] the house of YHWH, [are] of polished bronze.
  • Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
    also the pots, shovels, basins, and all the other implements. Huram made them out of polished bronze, for King Solomon, for the temple of Yahweh.
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
    and the pots and the shovels and the bowls. And all of these vessels that Hiram made for King Solomon the house of Yahweh polished bronze.
  • Darby Bible Public Domain
    and the pots, and the shovels, and the bowls. And all these things, which Hiram made king Solomon for the house of Jehovah, were of bright brass.
  • World Messianic Bible Public Domain
    the pots; the shovels; and the basins. All of these vessels, which Hiram made for King Solomon in the LORD’s house, were of burnished bronze.
  • Webster's Bible Public Domain
    And the pots, and the shovels, and the basins: and all these vessels which Hiram made to king Solomon for the house of the LORD, were of bright brass.
  • Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
    and the pots, shovels, and bowls. Everything that Hiram made for King Solomon in the Temple of the Lord was made of polished bronze.
  • Bible in Basic English Public Domain
    And the pots and the spades and the basins; all the vessels which Hiram made for King Solomon, for the house of the Lord, were of polished brass.
  • JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
    and the pots, and the shovels, and the basins; even all these vessels, which Hiram made for king Solomon, in the house of the LORD, were of burnished brass.

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הַיָּעִ֜ים
yâʻ
H3257
“the · shovels”
Particle, Definite Article + Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Absolute
Part of Speech
Particle + Noun
Type
Common
Gender
Masculine
Number
Plural
State
Absolute
Full BDB Definition

Origin: from H3261

TWOT: 879a

shovel
  1. וְאֶת ʼêth H853 “and · -” Conjunction + Particle, Direct Object
  2. הַסִּיר֨וֹת çîyr H5518 “the · pots” Particle, Definite Article + Noun, Common, Both, Plural, Absolute
  3. וְאֶת ʼêth H853 “and · -” Conjunction + Particle, Direct Object
  4. וְאֶת ʼêth H853 “and · -” Conjunction + Particle, Direct Object
  5. הַמִּזְרָק֗וֹת mizrâq H4219 “the · basins” Particle, Definite Article + Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Absolute
  6. וְאֵת֙ ʼêth H853 “and · -” Conjunction + Particle, Direct Object
  7. כָּל kôl H3605 “all of” Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct
  8. הַכֵּלִ֣ים kᵉlîy H3627 “the · vessels” Particle, Definite Article + Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Absolute
  9. האהל ʼêl-leh H428 “the · these” Particle, Definite Article + Pronoun, Demonstrative, Common, Plural
  10. הָאֵ֔לֶּה ʼêl-leh H428 “the · these” Particle, Definite Article + Pronoun, Demonstrative, Common, Plural
  11. אֲשֶׁ֨ר ʼăsher H834 “which” Particle, Relative
  12. עָשָׂ֥ה ʻâsâh H6213 “to do” Verb, Qal, Perfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular
  13. חִירָ֛ם Chîyrâm H2438 “Hiram” Noun, Proper
  14. לַמֶּ֥לֶךְ melek H4428 “to/for the · king” Preposition, Determined + Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute
  15. שְׁלֹמֹ֖ה Shᵉlômôh H8010 “Solomon” Noun, Proper
  16. בֵּ֣ית bayith H1004 “house of” Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct
  17. יְהוָ֑ה Yᵉhôvâh H3068 “LORD” Noun, Proper
  18. נְחֹ֖שֶׁת nᵉchôsheth H5178 “bronze” Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute
  19. מְמֹרָֽט mâraṭ H4803 “made bare” Verb, Pual, Participle Passive, Masculine, Singular, Absolute

About this verse

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20
words
16
distinct lemmas
Historical
section

Notable vocabulary

The rarest word here is הַיָּעִ֜ים shovel H3257 — appearing just 9 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.

Shared distinctive vocabulary

הַיָּעִ֜ים shovel H3257 occurs in 9 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:

Grammatical profile

  • 2 verbs
  • 11 nouns
  • 2 pronouns
  • 5 particles

Verb forms

  • עָשָׂ֥ה Qal · Perfect
  • מְמֹרָֽט Pual · Participle Passive

Repetition

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

  • האהל these H428 ×2

Hebrew & Septuagint length

In English translation the verse runs 28 words from the Hebrew and 56 from the Septuagint (LXX English) — the Septuagint runs noticeably longer here. See the side-by-side →

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 20 Hebrew tokens and 27 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.

Cross-references

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Topical passages linked to 1 Kings 7:45 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.

  • Exodus 27:3 You shall make its pots to take away its ashes, its shovels, its basins, its flesh hooks, and its fire pans: all its vessels you shall make of brass.
  • Exodus 38:3 He made all the vessels of the altar, the pots, the shovels, the basins, the flesh-hooks, and the fire pans. He made all its vessels of brass.
  • 2 Chronicles 4:16 The pots also, and the shovels, and the flesh-hooks, and all the vessels of it, did Huram his father make for king Solomon for the house of Yahweh of bright brass.
  • Leviticus 8:31 Moses said to Aaron and to his sons, "Boil the flesh at the door of the Tent of Meeting, and there eat it and the bread that is in the basket of consecration, as I commanded, saying, 'Aaron and his sons shall eat it.'
  • 1 Samuel 2:13–14 The custom of the priests with the people was that when any man offered sacrifice, the priest's servant came, while the flesh was boiling, with a flesh-hook of three teeth in his hand;
  • Ezekiel 46:20–24 He said to me, This is the place where the priests shall boil the trespass-offering and the sin-offering, [and] where they shall bake the meal-offering; that they not bring them forth into the outer court, to sanctify the people.
  • Zechariah 14:21 Yes, every pot in Jerusalem and in Judah will be holy to Yahweh of Hosts; and all those who sacrifice will come and take of them, and cook in them. In that day there will no longer be a Canaanite in the house of Yahweh of Hosts.

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Hebrew and Greek witnesses Masoretic Hebrew ↔ Greek Septuagint

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

Here the Septuagint runs noticeably longer than the Hebrew — LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) 56 words vs World English Bible 28. A rough length comparison of the two English translations, not a word-level alignment — read both below.

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

Hebrew 1 Kings 7:45 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

וְאֶת הַסִּיר֨וֹת וְאֶת הַיָּעִ֜ים וְאֶת הַמִּזְרָק֗וֹת וְאֵת֙ כָּל הַכֵּלִ֣ים האהל הָאֵ֔לֶּה אֲשֶׁ֨ר עָשָׂ֥ה חִירָ֛ם לַמֶּ֥לֶךְ שְׁלֹמֹ֖ה בֵּ֣ית יְהוָ֑ה נְחֹ֖שֶׁת מְמֹרָֽט

and the pots, and the shovels, and the basins: even all these vessels, which Hiram made for king Solomon, in the house of Yahweh, were of burnished brass.

World English Bible · Public Domain

Greek LXX 1 Kings 7:45 Septuagint · lemma form

καί οἶκος αὐτός ἐν ὅς καταἵημι ἐκεῖ αὐλή εἷς ἐκἐλίσσω οὗτος κατά ὁ ἔργον οὗτος καί οἶκος ὁ θυγάτηρ φαραώ ὅς λαμβάνω σαλωμών κατά ὁ αιλαμ οὗτος

And the caldrons, and pans, and bowls, and all the furniture, which Chiram made for king Solomon for the house of the Lord: and there were eight and forty pillars of the house of the king and of the house of the Lord: all the works of the king which Chiram made were entirely of brass.

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)
    וְיַת דוּדַיָא וְיַת מַגְרוֹפְיָתָא וְיַת מִזְרְקַיָא וְיַת כָּל מָנַיָא הָאִלֵין כְּעוֹבַד מָנֵי מַשְׁכְּנָא דַעֲבַד מֹשֶׁה כֵּן עֲבַד חִירָם לְמַלְכָּא שְׁלֹמֹה בֵּית מַקְדְשָׁא דַייָ נְחָשׁ טָב:

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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 7:45 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.

Lemma curates 59 commentaries, every one of them public domain or Creative Commons licensed, each selected and text-cleaned for this edition rather than reprinted as found. About our sources →

Trapp's Complete Commentary

John Trapp

1Ki 7:45 And the pots, and the shovels, and the basons: and all these vessels, which Hiram made to king Solomon for the house of the LORD, [were of] bright brass.

Ver. 45. See Trapp on "1Ki 7:41".

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.

Joseph Benson's Commentary

1Ki 7:45-47. And the pots — Or caldrons rather. These were vessels in which they boiled those sacrifices, or parts of sacrifices, which were divided between the priests and the people that offered them; that is, the peace-offerings, that they might eat them before the Lord. In the clay- ground — Hebrew, In the thickness of the ground. That is, in earth that was stiff and glutinous, and therefore more fit for making moulds of all kinds. And in a plain country such moulds were more easily fixed than on the sides of hills, or steep places. Solomon left all the vessels unweighed — Because the weighing of them would have been troublesome, and to no purpose. Neither was the weight of the brass found out — Hebrew, נחקר, nechkar, investigated, or inquired into. Much less was an exact account taken of it.

Joseph Benson's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments (1811–1818) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

Geneva Bible (1599)

Geneva Bible translators

By this name also Hiram the king of Tyre was called.

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

The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne

45. and all these vessels] Better, at the close of the list, ‘even all these.’ The Heb. text has consonants which would be rendered ‘the vessels of the Tent’ i.e. the tabernacle. But this is corrected by a marginal reading to ‘these vessels,’ which is most certainly the true text. The variation comes about by the transposition of two consonants אהל for אלה.

made to king Solomon] In modern English we should say ‘for,’ in spite of the following ‘for’ coming so close. But the R.V. has changed the phrase ‘for the house of the Lord’ both here and in 1Ki_7:40 into in the house of the Lord. There is no preposition at all in the Hebrew, but the noun appears to be the accusative of place. So that the change of the R.V. is not without justification. The same construction is translated ‘in the house of the Lord’ 2Ki_11:3; 2Ki_11:15, and elsewhere.

bright brass] The R.V. gives furnished brass. The original word is a participle and not an adjective.

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.

Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

Fine brass (aurichalco.) Some pretended that gold was mixed with this sort of brass. But Pliny ([Natural History?] xxxiv. 2.) informs us that it came out of the mines, without dross. --- Hebrew, "polished (or refined) brass." (Calmet) --- It might resemble the Corinthian brass. (Menochius)

George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), Haydock's Catholic Family Bible and Commentary, 1859 edition — public domain. Excludes Psalms (Douay-Rheims chapter numbering differs from Protestant) and Deuterocanonical books (Catholic canon only).

Matthew Poole's English Annotations

The pots, to seethe those parts of the sacrifices which the priests or officers were to eat. To these flesh-hooks are added, 2Ch 4:16.

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

45. Pots — Or, pans, for receiving and carrying the ashes away. Compare Exo_27:3.

Shovels — For removing ashes from the altar.

Basins — To receive the blood of the sacrifices to be sprinkled on the altar.

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 the pots see on ver. 40, and the shovels, and the basons, and all these vessels according to the Keri which Hiram made There is no mention of the altar, as in 2Ch_4:1, possibly because it was not made by Hiram (Bahr to rather, for king Solomon for Heb. omits the house of the Lord, were of bright brass. Marg. made bright, i.e., polished after casting.

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

The pots - To boil those parts of the sacrifices which the priests, &c. were to eat.

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

Lesson kit

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1 Kings, in the Historical, opens this verse with 20 words (16 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is yâʻ (“shovel”). The Greek Septuagint runs longer here. A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

  1. The word yâʻ carries the sense “shovel.” How does it shape the verse?
  2. How does Exodus 27:3, which shares the word «shovel», read alongside this verse?
  3. What does the repetition of “these” (2× in this one verse) do in this verse?
  4. The Septuagint runs longer here than the Hebrew. What might account for the difference?
  5. These translations render this verse differently. What is at stake in choosing one wording over another?
  6. «עָשָׂ֥ה» is a Qal Perfect verb. How does that grammatical form shape the action described?
  7. Compare how Trapp's Complete Commentary and Joseph Benson's Commentary read this verse. Where do they agree or differ?

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