1 Kings 7:26
It was a handbreadth thick, and its rim was fashioned like the brim of a cup, like a lily blossom. It could hold two thousand baths.
Note A handbreadth is approximately 2.9 inches or 7.4 centimeters.
Note 2,000 baths is approximately 11,600 gallons or 44,000 liters; LXX does not include this sentence.
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.
It was a hand width thick. Its brim was worked like the brim of a cup, like the flower of a lily. It held two thousand baths.
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.
Related passages
From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, grouped by the word they explain.
- an hand breadth
- Jeremiah 52:21
- with flowers
- 1 Kings 7:19; 1 Kings 6:18, 32, 35
- two thousand
- 1 Kings 7:38; 2 Chronicles 4:5; Ezekiel 45:14