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Literal Standard Version

1 Kings 7:19

And the chapiters that [are] on the top of the pillars [are] of lily-work in the porch, four cubits;

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Art;   Brass;   Carving;   Chapiter;   Hiram;   Lily;   Master Workman;   Mechanic;   Pillar;   Temple;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Pillars;   Temple, the First;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Lilly;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Temple;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Jachin and Boaz;   Lily;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Boaz;   Temple;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Art and Aesthetics;   Bronze;   Copper;   Hiram;   Lily;   Net;   Persecution in the Bible;   Temple of Jerusalem;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Hiram;   Israel;   Jachin and Boaz;   Lily;   Temple;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Lily;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Boaz ;   Chapiter;   Lily,;   Pillar;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Chapiter;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Temple;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Lily;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Jachin and Boaz;   Lily;   Lily-Work;   Temple;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
And the capitals on top of the pillars in the portico were shaped like lilies, six feet high.
Hebrew Names Version
The capitals that were on the top of the pillars in the porch were of lily-work, four cubits.
King James Version
And the chapiters that were upon the top of the pillars were of lily work in the porch, four cubits.
English Standard Version
Now the capitals that were on the tops of the pillars in the vestibule were of lily-work, four cubits.
New Century Version
The capitals on top of the pillars in the porch were shaped like lilies, and they were six feet tall.
New English Translation
The tops of the two pillars in the porch were shaped like lilies and were six feet high.
Amplified Bible
The capitals which were upon the top of the pillars in the porch were of lily work (design), four cubits.
New American Standard Bible
The capitals which were on the tops of the pillars in the porch were of lily design, four cubits.
Geneva Bible (1587)
And the chapiters that were on the toppe of the pillars were after lilye worke in ye porch, foure cubites.
Legacy Standard Bible
Now the capitals which were on the top of the pillars in the porch were of lily design, four cubits.
Contemporary English Version
The caps for the columns of the porch were six feet high and were shaped like lilies.
Complete Jewish Bible
The capitals on the columns in the hall had shapes like lilies and were seven feet high.
Darby Translation
And the capitals that were upon the top of the pillars were of lily-work [as] in the porch, four cubits.
Easy-to-Read Version
The capitals on top of the columns were shaped like flowers.
George Lamsa Translation
And the capitals that were upon the top of the pillars were of lily work in the porch, four cubits.
Good News Translation
The capitals were shaped like lilies, 6 feet tall,
Lexham English Bible
And on the capitals which were on top of the pillars in the porch were works of lilies four cubits high.
Literal Translation
And the capitals on the top of the pillars in the porch were lily-work, four cubits.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And the knoppes were like roses before ye porche foure cubites greate.
American Standard Version
And the capitals that were upon the top of the pillars in the porch were of lily-work, four cubits.
Bible in Basic English
The crowns on the tops of the pillars were ornamented with a design of flowers, and were four cubits across.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And the pommels that were on the top of the pillers, were after lillie worke in the porche foure cubites.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And the capitals that were upon the top of the pillars in the porch were of lily-work, four cubits.
King James Version (1611)
And the chapiters that were vpon the top of the pillars, were of lillie worke in the porch, foure cubites.
English Revised Version
And the chapiters that were upon the top of the pillars in the porch were of lily work, four cubits.
Berean Standard Bible
And the capitals atop the pillars in the portico were shaped like lilies, four cubits high.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Sotheli the pomels, that weren on the heedis of the pilers in the porche, weren maad as bi the werk of lilye, of foure cubitis;
Young's Literal Translation
And the chapiters that [are] on the top of the pillars [are] of lily-work in the porch, four cubits;
Update Bible Version
And the capitals that were on the top of the pillars in the porch were of lily-work, four cubits.
Webster's Bible Translation
And the capitals that [were] upon the top of the pillars [were] of lily-work in the porch, four cubits.
World English Bible
The capitals that were on the top of the pillars in the porch were of lily-work, four cubits.
New King James Version
The capitals which were on top of the pillars in the hall were in the shape of lilies, four cubits.
New Living Translation
The capitals on the columns inside the entry room were shaped like water lilies, and they were six feet tall.
New Life Bible
Now the top pieces on the pillars of the porch were made to look like lily flowers, as tall as a man.
New Revised Standard
Now the capitals that were on the tops of the pillars in the vestibule were of lily-work, four cubits high.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And, the capitals which were upon the top of the pillars, were of lily work, in span, four cubits.
Douay-Rheims Bible
And the chapiters that were upon the top of the pillars, were of lily work, in the porch of four cubits.
Revised Standard Version
Now the capitals that were upon the tops of the pillars in the vestibule were of lily-work, four cubits.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
The capitals which were on the top of the pillars in the porch were of lily design, four cubits.

Contextual Overview

13And King Solomon sends and takes Hiram out of Tyre— 14he [is the] son of a woman, a widow, of the tribe of Naphtali, and his father [is] a man of Tyre, a worker in bronze, and he is filled with the wisdom and the understanding, and the knowledge to do all work in bronze—and he comes to King Solomon, and does all his work. 15And he forms the two pillars of bronze; eighteen cubits [is] the height of the first pillar, and a cord of twelve cubits goes around the second pillar. 16And he has made two chapiters to put on the tops of the pillars, cast in bronze; five cubits the height of the first capital, and five cubits the height of the second capital. 17Nets of network, wreaths of chain-work [are] for the chapiters that [are] on the top of the pillars, seven for the first capital, and seven for the second capital. 18And he makes the pillars, and two rows around on the one network, to cover the chapiters that [are] on the top, with the pomegranates, and so he has made for the second capital. 19And the chapiters that [are] on the top of the pillars [are] of lily-work in the porch, four cubits;20and the chapiters on the two pillars also [have pomegranates] above, close by the protuberance that [is] beside the net; and the pomegranates [are] two hundred, in rows around on the second capital. 21And he raises up the pillars for the porch of the temple, and he raises up the right pillar, and calls its name Jachin, and he raises up the left pillar, and calls its name Boaz; 22and on the top of the pillars [is] lily-work; and the work of the pillars [is] completed.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

lily work: 1 Kings 7:22, 1 Kings 6:18, 1 Kings 6:32-35

Reciprocal: 1 Kings 7:26 - with flowers 1 Chronicles 28:15 - the candlesticks

Cross-References

Genesis 7:2
you take seven pairs from all the clean beasts to yourself, a male and its female; and of the beasts which are not clean—two, a male and its female;
Genesis 7:3
also, seven pairs from [each] bird of the heavens, a male and a female, to keep alive seed on the face of all the earth;
Genesis 7:6
And Noah [is] a son of six hundred years, and the flood of waters has been on the earth.
Genesis 7:9
they have come to Noah two by two into the Ark, a male and a female, as God has commanded Noah.
Job 12:15
Behold, He keeps in the waters, and they are dried up, || And He sends them forth, || And they overturn the land.
Jeremiah 3:23
Surely in vain—from the heights, || The multitude of mountains—Surely the salvation of Israel [is] in our God YHWH.
2 Peter 3:6
through which the world then, having been flooded by water, was destroyed;

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And the chapiters that were upon the top of the pillars were of lily work in the porch,.... Or such as was in the porch of the temple; the work was like that wrought in the form of the flower of lilies open:

four cubits; of the five cubits of which the chapiters consisted, four of them were of lily work, the two rows of pomegranates taking up the other; though Dr. Lightfoot o thinks, that at the head of the pillar was a border or circle of lily work, that stood out four cubits under the chapiter, into and along the porch; a four cubit circle, after the manner of a spread lily.

o Prospect of the Temple, c. 13. sect. 2. p. 1075.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

There is a cornice of (so-called) lilywork at Persepolis, consisting of three ranges of broadish rounded leaves, one over the other. Lilies are also represented with much spirit on a bas-relief from Koyunjik.


 
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