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1 Kings 6

1 Kings 6:9 KJV (With Strong’s)

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So he built
banah (Hebrew #1129)
to build (literally and figuratively)
KJV usage: (begin to) build(-er), obtain children, make, repair, set (up), X surely.
Pronounce: baw-naw'
Origin: a primitive root
the house
bayith (Hebrew #1004)
a house (in the greatest variation of applications, especially family, etc.)
KJV usage: court, daughter, door, + dungeon, family, + forth of, X great as would contain, hangings, home(born), (winter)house(-hold), inside(-ward), palace, place, + prison, + steward, + tablet, temple, web, + within(-out).
Pronounce: bah'-yith
Origin: probably from 1129 abbreviated
, and finished
kalah (Hebrew #3615)
to end, whether intransitive (to cease, be finished, perish) or transitived (to complete, prepare, consume)
KJV usage: accomplish, cease, consume (away), determine, destroy (utterly), be (when ... were) done, (be an) end (of), expire, (cause to) fail, faint, finish, fulfil, X fully, X have, leave (off), long, bring to pass, wholly reap, make clean riddance, spend, quite take away, waste.
Pronounce: kaw-law'
Origin: a primitive root
it; and covered
caphan (Hebrew #5603)
to hide by covering; specifically, to roof (passive participle as noun, a roof) or wainscot; figuratively, to reserve
KJV usage: cieled, cover, seated.
Pronounce: saw-fan'
Origin: a primitive root
the house
bayith (Hebrew #1004)
a house (in the greatest variation of applications, especially family, etc.)
KJV usage: court, daughter, door, + dungeon, family, + forth of, X great as would contain, hangings, home(born), (winter)house(-hold), inside(-ward), palace, place, + prison, + steward, + tablet, temple, web, + within(-out).
Pronounce: bah'-yith
Origin: probably from 1129 abbreviated
λwith beams
geb (Hebrew #1356)
a log (as cut out); also well or cistern (as dug)
KJV usage: beam, ditch, pit.
Pronounce: gabe
Origin: from 1461
and boards
sderah (Hebrew #7713)
a row, i.e. rank (of soldiers), story (of rooms)
KJV usage: board, range.
Pronounce: sed-ay-raw'
Origin: from an unused root meaning to regulate
of cedar
'erez (Hebrew #730)
a cedar tree (from the tenacity of its roots)
KJV usage: cedar (tree).
Pronounce: eh-rez'
Origin: from 729
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or, the vault-beams and the ceilings with cedar.

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Cedar,
House

Cross References

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Ministry on This Verse

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he built.
1 Kings 6:14,38• 14So Solomon built the house, and finished it.
 38And in the eleventh year, in the month Bul, which is the eighth month, was the house finished throughout all the parts thereof, and according to all the fashion of it. So was he seven years in building it. (1 Kings 6:14,38)
with beams and boards of cedar.
or, the vault beams and theceilings with cedar.
• Cedar represents majesty and height, durability and firmness. No part of the walls within was not covered. Nowhere did the stone appear. (“The Temple: 1 Kings 6” by H.L. Rossier)

J. N. Darby Translation

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And he built the house, and finished it; and covereda the house with beams and boards of cedar.

JND Translation Notes

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Or "ceiled," see Jer. 22.14.