Reference: Knop
Easton
some architectural ornament. (1.) Heb kaphtor (Ex 25:31-36), occurring in the description of the candlestick. It was an ornamental swell beneath the cups of the candlestick, probably an imitation of the fruit of the almond.
(2.) Heb peka'im, found only in 1Ki 6:18; 7:24, an ornament resembling a small gourd or an egg, on the cedar wainscot in the temple and on the castings on the brim of the brazen sea.
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Fausets
Our "knob" (Exodus 25:31 - 36-37; Exodus 17-22).
(1) Kaphtor, pomegranate-like knops or balls, associated with flowers in architectural ornamentation, also a boss from which, as crowning the stem, branches spring out. In Am 9:1 instead of "lintel" (kaphtor), and Zep 2:14 translated "the sphere-like capital of the column." The Hebrew implies something crowning a work and at its top.
(2) Peqaiym (1Ki 6:18; 7:24), gourd-like oval ornaments running in straight rows, carved in the cedar wainscot of the temple interior, and an ornament cast round the great" sea" below the brim; in double row, ten to a cubit, two inches from center to center (1Ki 6:18; 7:24). Paqowt means "wild gourds".
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Hastings
Another form of 'knob,' is used to render two different words in English Version. 1. The knops of the stem and arms of the golden candlestick, or rather lampstand, of the Tabernacle (Ex 25:31 etc.) were the spheroidal ornaments still recognizable in the representation on the Arch of Tit 2. Knops also denote certain ornaments, probably egg- or gourd-shaped, carved on the cedar lining of the walls of Solomon's Temple (1Ki 6:18
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Smith
Knop,
a word employed in the Authorized Version to translate two terms which refer to some architectural or ornamental object, but which have nothing in common.
1. Caphtor. --This occurs in the description of the candlestick of the sacred tent in
and Exod 37:17-22
2. The second term, Peka'im, is found only in
and 1Kin 7:24 The word no doubt signifies some globular thing resembling a small gourd or an egg, though as to the character of the ornament we are quite in the dark.