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Knop

Easton's Bible Dictionary

1

Some architectural ornament.

2

Heb. kaphtor (Exod 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.

3

Heb. peka’im, found only in 1 Kgs 6:18 and 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.

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

nop: In Exod 25:31 ff; 37:17 ff (kaphtor), part of the ornaments of the golden candlestick; in 1 Kgs 6:18; 1 Kgs 7:24 (peqa`im), gourd-like ornaments of the lining of Solomon's temple, and of the brazen sea (in 1 Kgs 6:18, the Revised Version margin "gourds").

See CANDLESTICK, THE GOLDEN; TEMPLE; SEA, THE MOLTEN.

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