Parallel Verses
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 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.
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 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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Saphah
References
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Smith
Watsons
Word Count of 20 Translations in 1 Kings 7:26
Verse Info
Context Readings
Solomon Continues To Build
25 "The Sea" stood on top of twelve bulls. Three faced northward, three westward, three southward, and three eastward. "The Sea" was placed on top of them, and they all faced outward. 26 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. 27 He also made ten bronze movable stands. Each stand was six feet long, six feet wide, and four-and-a-half feet high.
Cross References
2 Chronicles 4:5
It was four fingers thick and its rim was like that of a cup shaped like a lily blossom. It could hold 18,000 gallons.
1 Kings 6:18
The inside of the temple was all cedar and was adorned with carvings of round ornaments and of flowers in bloom. Everything was cedar; no stones were visible.
1 Kings 6:32
On the two doors made of olive wood he carved cherubs, palm trees, and flowers in bloom, and he plated them with gold. He plated the cherubs and the palm trees with hammered gold.
1 Kings 6:35
He carved cherubs, palm trees, and flowers in bloom and plated them with gold, leveled out over the carvings.
1 Kings 7:19
The tops of the two pillars in the porch were shaped like lilies and were six feet high.
1 Kings 7:38
He also made ten bronze basins, each of which could hold about 240 gallons. Each basin was six feet in diameter; there was one basin for each stand.
Jeremiah 52:21
Each of the pillars was about 27 feet high, about 18 feet in circumference, three inches thick, and hollow.
Ezekiel 45:14
and as the prescribed portion of olive oil, one tenth of a bath from each kor (which is ten baths or a homer, for ten baths make a homer);