Parallel Verses
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
And it was a hand breadth thick, and the brim wrought like the brim of a cup with flowers of lilies. And it contained two thousand baths.
New American Standard Bible
It was a handbreadth thick, and its brim was made like the brim of a cup, as a lily blossom; it could hold two thousand baths.
King James Version
And it was an hand breadth thick, and the brim thereof was wrought like the brim of a cup, with flowers of lilies: it contained two thousand baths.
Holman Bible
The reservoir was three inches
International Standard Version
The reservoir, which held about 2,000 baths, stood about a handbreadth thick, and its rim looked like the brim of a cup or of a lily blossom.
A Conservative Version
And it was a handbreadth thick. And the brim of it was wrought like the brim of a cup, like the flower of a lily. It held two thousand baths.
American Standard Version
And it was a handbreadth thick: and the brim thereof was wrought like the brim of a cup, like the flower of a lily: it held two thousand baths.
Amplified
It was a hand width thick, and its brim was made like the brim of a cup, like a lily blossom. It held two thousand
Bible in Basic English
It was as thick as a man's open hand, and was curved like the edge of a cup, like the flower of a lily: it would take two thousand baths.
Darby Translation
And its thickness was a hand-breadth, and its brim was like the work of the brim of a cup, with lily-blossoms; it held two thousand baths.
Julia Smith Translation
And its thickness a hand breadth, and its lip as the work of the lip of a cup the flower of the lily: it will hold two thousand baths.
King James 2000
And it was a handbreadth thick, and the brim thereof was shaped like the brim of a cup, with flowers of lilies: it contained two thousand baths.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Its thickness [was] a handbreadth, but its rim [was] as the work on the brim of a cup, [like the] bud of a lily; it held two thousand baths.
Modern King James verseion
And it was a handbreadth thick, and its brim was fashioned like the brim of a cup, with a bud of a lily. It contained two thousand baths.
NET Bible
It was four fingers thick and its rim was like that of a cup shaped like a lily blossom. It could hold about 12,000 gallons.
New Heart English Bible
It was a handbreadth thick: and its brim was worked like the brim of a cup, like the flower of a lily: it held two thousand baths.
The Emphasized Bible
And, the thickness thereof, was a hand breadth, and, the brim thereof, was like the brim-work of a cup, of lily-blossoms, - two thousand baths, did it contain.
Webster
And it was a hand-breadth thick, and its brim was wrought like the brim of a cup, with flowers of lilies: it contained two thousand baths.
World English Bible
It was a handbreadth thick: and its brim was worked like the brim of a cup, like the flower of a lily: it held two thousand baths.
Youngs Literal Translation
And its thickness is an handbreadth, and its edge as the work of the edge of a cup, flowers of lilies; two thousand baths it containeth.
Themes
Art » Artisans, skillful » Hiram
Bath » Measurement » Liquids » 8 gallons and three quartz
Brass » Articles made of » Altar, vessels, and other articles of the tabernacle and temple
Flowers » Representations of, on the » Sea of brass
Handbreadth » A measure (about four inches)
Kings » Who reigned over all israel » Solomon
Laver of brass » One made by solomon for the temple
Lily » Molded on the rim of the molten laver in the temple
Lily » The principal capitals of the temple ornamented with carvings of
Master workman » Instances of » Hiram
Measure » Bath » Eight gallons and a half
Mechanic » Instances of » Hiram
Interlinear
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References
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Morish
Smith
Watsons
Word Count of 20 Translations in 1 Kings 7:26
Verse Info
Context Readings
Solomon Continues To Build
25 And it stood on twelve oxen: of which three looked North, three West, three South, and three East, and the sea on high upon them, and all their hinder parts were inward. 26 And it was a hand breadth thick, and the brim wrought like the brim of a cup with flowers of lilies. And it contained two thousand baths. 27 And he made ten bottoms of brass, four cubits long and four cubits broad apiece, and three high.
Cross References
2 Chronicles 4:5
And the thickest of it was a handbreadth, and the brim like the brim of a cup, with flowers of lilies. And it received and held the thousand baths.
1 Kings 6:18
And the Cedar of the house within was carved with knops and graven with flowers, and all was Cedar timber, so that no stone was seen.
1 Kings 6:32
And the two doors of olive tree he graved with graving of Cherubs and Palm trees and graved flowers, and covered them with gold, and laid gold over the Cherubs and also the Palm trees.
1 Kings 6:35
and graved thereon Cherubs, Palm trees and flowers, and covered them with gold made plain by a ruler.
1 Kings 7:19
And the head pieces that were on the tops of the pillars were wrought with lilies in the porch the space of four cubits of them.
1 Kings 7:38
Then he made ten lavers of brass containing forty baths apiece, and they were of four cubits apiece, for every one of the bottoms a laver.
Jeremiah 52:21
For every pillar was eighteen cubits high, and the rope that went about it, was twelve cubits, and four fingers thick and round.
Ezekiel 45:14
The oil shall be measured with the Bath: even the tenth part of one Bath out of a Cor. Ten baths make one Homer: for one Homer filleth ten Baths.