וְאֶת הַמְּכֹנ֖וֹת עָשָׂ֑ה וְאֶת הַכִּיֹּר֥וֹת עָשָׂ֖ה עַל הַמְּכֹנֽוֹת
He made also the bases, and the basins made he on the bases;
World English Bible · Public Domain
2 Chronicles 4:14
Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) 2 Chronicles 4:14 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.
English Translation
He made also the bases, and the basins made he on the bases;
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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
He made also the bases, and the basins made he on the bases;
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King James Version Public Domain
He made also bases, and lavers made he upon the bases;
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
And the stands he made, and the pots he made on the stands,
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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Every available English version of this verse, each an independent rendering of the whole verse.
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World English Bible Public Domain
He made also the bases, and the basins made he on the bases;
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Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
the stands; the basins on the stands;
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Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
the stands; the basins on the stands;
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King James Version Public Domain
He made also bases, and lavers made he upon the bases;
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American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
He made also the bases, and the lavers made he upon the bases;
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Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
He made also the bases, and the layers made he upon the bases;
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Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
He made also bases, and made caldrons vpon the bases:
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Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
And four hundred pomegranates, and two wreaths of network, so that two rows of pomegranates were joined to each wreath, to cover the pommels, and the chapiters of the pillars.
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Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
And the bases he hath made; and the lavers he hath made on the bases;
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Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
And he has made the bases; and he has made the lavers on the bases;
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Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
He also made the stands and the basins to go on the stands;
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
And the stands he made, and the pots he made on the stands,
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Darby Bible Public Domain
And he made the bases, and he made the lavers on the bases;
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World Messianic Bible Public Domain
He also made the bases, and he made the basins on the bases—
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Webster's Bible Public Domain
He made also bases, and lavers he made upon the bases;
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Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
the water carts and the basins on the water carts;
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Bible in Basic English Public Domain
And he made the ten bases and the ten washing-vessels which were on the bases;
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JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
He made also the bases, and the lavers made he upon the bases;
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הַכִּיֹּר֥וֹת
kîyôwr
H3595
“the · pots”
Particle, Definite Article + Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Absolute
- Appears 23× in the Hebrew Bible
- First appears at Exodus 30:18
- Part of Speech
- Particle + Noun
- Type
- Common
- Gender
- Masculine
- Number
- Plural
- State
- Absolute
Full BDB Definition
pot, basin, laver, pan
- pot, caldron
- fire-pot, brazier
- basin, laver
- platform, stage
- וְאֶת ʼêth H853 “and · -” Conjunction + Particle, Direct Object
- הַמְּכֹנ֖וֹת mᵉkôwnâh H4350 “the · pedestals” Particle, Definite Article + Noun, Common, Feminine, Plural, Absolute
- עָשָׂ֑ה ʻâsâh H6213 “to do” Verb, Qal, Perfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular
- וְאֶת ʼêth H853 “and · -” Conjunction + Particle, Direct Object
- הַכִּיֹּר֥וֹת kîyôwr H3595 “the · pots” Particle, Definite Article + Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Absolute
- עָשָׂ֖ה ʻâsâh H6213 “to do” Verb, Qal, Perfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular
- עַל ʻal H5921 “upon” Preposition
- הַמְּכֹנֽוֹת mᵉkôwnâh H4350 “the · pedestals” Particle, Definite Article + Noun, Common, Feminine, Plural, Absolute
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 →
- 8
- words
- 5
- distinct lemmas
- Historical
- section
Notable vocabulary
The rarest word here is הַכִּיֹּר֥וֹת pot H3595 — appearing just 23 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.
Shared distinctive vocabulary
הַכִּיֹּר֥וֹת pot H3595 occurs in 20 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:
Grammatical profile
- 2 verbs
- 3 nouns
- 1 preposition
- 2 particles
Verb forms
- עָשָׂ֑ה Qal · Perfect
- עָשָׂ֖ה Qal · Perfect
Repetition
Words recur within this verse — often emphatic in Hebrew:
Hebrew & Septuagint length
In English translation the verse runs 13 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 8 Hebrew tokens and 12 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
1Topical passages linked to 2 Chronicles 4:14 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.
- 1 Kings 7:27–43 He made the ten bases of brass; four cubits was the length of one base, and four cubits the breadth of it, and three cubits the height of it.
Cross-references courtesy of OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0).
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.
καί ὁ μεχωνωθ ποιέω δέκα καί ὁ λουτήρ ποιέω ἐπί ὁ μεχωνωθ
And he made the ten bases, and he made the lavers upon the bases;
LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) · Public Domain
On this verse, Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers discusses the Septuagint’s reading. Read the note in Commentary ↓
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 →
Lesson kit
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2 Chronicles, in the Historical, opens this verse with 8 words (5 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is kîyôwr (“pot”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Discussion questions
- How does “pot” (kîyôwr) shape what this verse is saying?
- How does Exodus 30:18, which shares the word «pot», read alongside this verse?
- What does the repetition of “pedestal” (2× in this one verse) do in this verse?
- These translations render this verse differently; the difference is in the English rendering, not the original. What questions does that raise?
- «עָשָׂ֑ה» is a Qal Perfect verb. How does that grammatical form shape the action described?
- Compare how Trapp's Complete Commentary and Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers read this verse. Where do they agree or differ?
Things to notice
- This verse counts 8 Hebrew ↔ 12 Greek words.
- These translations choose different wording for 7 words in this verse.
- “pedestal” occurs 2× in this single verse.
- 5 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 8 words in this verse.
Commentary
Notes on 2 Chronicles 4:14 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
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.
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers
A Bible Commentary for English Readers, edited by Charles John Ellicott (1878–1897) — 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.
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.
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.