1 Re 7:31

La Riveduta Bibbia

Al coronamento della base, nell’interno, c’era un’apertura in cui s’adattava il bacino; essa avea un cubito d’altezza, era rotonda, della forma d’una base di colonna, e aveva un cubito e mezzo di diametro; anche lì v’erano delle sculture; i riquadri erano quadrati e non circolari.

Parallel Translations

La Nuova Diodati
La sua apertura, allinterno della corona e nella parte alta, era rotonda; essa era profonda un cubito dalla forma di un piedistallo e aveva il diametro di un cubito e mezzo; anche attorno allapertura cerano delle sculture, ma i pannelli erano quadrati e non rotondi.

Giovanni Diodati Bibbia
E la bocca del piè era indentro della corona, e rilevata disopra d’un cubito; e questa sua bocca era rotonda, a foggia d’un piè di vaso; ed era di un cubito e mezzo; e sopra questa sua bocca vi erano eziandio degl’intagli, co’ lor compartimenti, quadri, e non rotondi.

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Gill's Notes on the Bible

And the mouth of it within the chapiter, and above, was a cubit,.... On the lid of the base rose up a lesser base, called the chapiter, which was circular, like a coronet, as the word signifies, the inside of which was hollow, for the lower part of the layer to rest in; this ascended straight up half a cubit, and then widening, went up half a cubit more, and so in its whole height, as here a cubit; the circuit or circumference of which is called the mouth of the base, into which the feet of the layer were set, the measure of which is next given:

but the mouth thereof was round, after the work of the base, a cubit and an half; which was either the circumference or the diameter of it; one should think the latter:

and also upon the mouth of it were gravings, with their borders, four square, not round; though the mouth was round, the border of it was four square, which had figures engraved thereon, perhaps the same as on the other borders, lions, oxen, and cherubim.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

It seems impossible to determine what is meant by the “mouth” of the laver, or what by its “chapiter.”