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1 Kings 7

1 Kings 7:40 KJV (With Strong’s)

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And Hiram
Chiyram (Hebrew #2438)
another form of 2361; Chiram or Chirom, the name of two Tyrians
KJV usage: Hiram, Huram.
Pronounce: khee-rawm'
Origin: or Chiyrowm {khee-rome'}
mu made
`asah (Hebrew #6213)
to do or make, in the broadest sense and widest application (as follows)
KJV usage: accomplish, advance, appoint, apt, be at, become, bear, bestow, bring forth, bruise, be busy, X certainly, have the charge of, commit, deal (with), deck, + displease, do, (ready) dress(-ed), (put in) execute(-ion), exercise, fashion, + feast, (fight-)ing man, + finish, fit, fly, follow, fulfill, furnish, gather, get, go about, govern, grant, great, + hinder, hold ((a feast)), X indeed, + be industrious, + journey, keep, labour, maintain, make, be meet, observe, be occupied, offer, + officer, pare, bring (come) to pass, perform, pracise, prepare, procure, provide, put, requite, X sacrifice, serve, set, shew, X sin, spend, X surely, take, X thoroughly, trim, X very, + vex, be (warr-)ior, work(-man), yield, use.
Pronounce: aw-saw'
Origin: a primitive root
the lavers
kiyowr (Hebrew #3595)
from the same as 3564; properly, something round (as excavated or bored), i.e. a chafing-dish for coals or a caldron for cooking; hence (from similarity of form) a washbowl; also (for the same reason) a pulpit or platform
KJV usage: hearth, laver, pan, scaffold.
Pronounce: kee-yore'
Origin: or kiyor {kee-yore'}
, and the shovels
ya` (Hebrew #3257)
a shovel
KJV usage: shovel.
Pronounce: yaw
Origin: from 3261
, and the basons
mizraq (Hebrew #4219)
a bowl (as if for sprinkling)
KJV usage: bason, bowl.
Pronounce: miz-rawk'
Origin: from 2236
. So Hiram
Chiyram (Hebrew #2438)
another form of 2361; Chiram or Chirom, the name of two Tyrians
KJV usage: Hiram, Huram.
Pronounce: khee-rawm'
Origin: or Chiyrowm {khee-rome'}
made
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
an end of doing
`asah (Hebrew #6213)
to do or make, in the broadest sense and widest application (as follows)
KJV usage: accomplish, advance, appoint, apt, be at, become, bear, bestow, bring forth, bruise, be busy, X certainly, have the charge of, commit, deal (with), deck, + displease, do, (ready) dress(-ed), (put in) execute(-ion), exercise, fashion, + feast, (fight-)ing man, + finish, fit, fly, follow, fulfill, furnish, gather, get, go about, govern, grant, great, + hinder, hold ((a feast)), X indeed, + be industrious, + journey, keep, labour, maintain, make, be meet, observe, be occupied, offer, + officer, pare, bring (come) to pass, perform, pracise, prepare, procure, provide, put, requite, X sacrifice, serve, set, shew, X sin, spend, X surely, take, X thoroughly, trim, X very, + vex, be (warr-)ior, work(-man), yield, use.
Pronounce: aw-saw'
Origin: a primitive root
all the work
mla'kah (Hebrew #4399)
properly, deputyship, i.e. ministry; generally, employment (never servile) or work (abstractly or concretely); also property (as the result of labor)
KJV usage: business, + cattle, + industrious, occupation, (+ -pied), + officer, thing (made), use, (manner of) work((-man), -manship).
Pronounce: mel-aw-kaw'
Origin: from the same as 4397
that he made
`asah (Hebrew #6213)
to do or make, in the broadest sense and widest application (as follows)
KJV usage: accomplish, advance, appoint, apt, be at, become, bear, bestow, bring forth, bruise, be busy, X certainly, have the charge of, commit, deal (with), deck, + displease, do, (ready) dress(-ed), (put in) execute(-ion), exercise, fashion, + feast, (fight-)ing man, + finish, fit, fly, follow, fulfill, furnish, gather, get, go about, govern, grant, great, + hinder, hold ((a feast)), X indeed, + be industrious, + journey, keep, labour, maintain, make, be meet, observe, be occupied, offer, + officer, pare, bring (come) to pass, perform, pracise, prepare, procure, provide, put, requite, X sacrifice, serve, set, shew, X sin, spend, X surely, take, X thoroughly, trim, X very, + vex, be (warr-)ior, work(-man), yield, use.
Pronounce: aw-saw'
Origin: a primitive root
king
melek (Hebrew #4428)
a king
KJV usage: king, royal.
Pronounce: meh'-lek
Origin: from 4427
Solomon
Shlomoh (Hebrew #8010)
peaceful; Shelomah, David's successor
KJV usage: Solomon.
Pronounce: shel-o-mo'
Origin: from 7965
for 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
of the Lord
Yhovah (Hebrew #3068)
(the) self-Existent or Eternal; Jehovah, Jewish national name of God
KJV usage: Jehovah, the Lord. Compare 3050, 3069.
Pronounce: yeh-ho-vaw'
Origin: from 1961
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Hiram.
Heb. Hirom.
the lavers.
1 Kings 7:28• 28{i}And the work of the bases was this: they had panels, and the panels were between the fillets.{/i} (1 Kings 7:28)
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2 Kings 25:14‑15• 14{i}The cauldrons also and the shovels and the knives and the cups, and all the vessels of copper wherewith they ministered, they took away.{/i}
15{i}And the censers and the bowls, that which was of gold in gold, and that which was of silver in silver, the captain of the body-guard took away.{/i}
(2 Kings 25:14‑15)
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2 Chron. 4:8,11‑16• 8{i}And he made ten tables, and placed them in the temple, five on the right hand and five on the left. And he made a hundred golden bowls.{/i}
11{i}And Huram made the pots and the shovels and the bowls.{/i}
12{i}two pillars, and the globes and the capitals on the top of the pillars, two; and the two networks, to cover the two globes of the capitals which were on the top of the pillars;{/i}
13{i}and the four hundred pomegranates for the two networks, two rows of pomegranates for one network, to cover the two globes of the capitals which were upon the pillars.{/i}
14{i}And he made the bases, and he made the lavers on the bases;{/i}
15{i}one sea, and the twelve oxen under it.{/i}
16{i}And the pots, and the shovels, and the forks, and all their instruments did Huram Abiv make king Solomon for the house of Jehovah, of bright brass.{/i}
(2 Chron. 4:8,11‑16)
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Jer. 52:18‑19• 18The caldrons also, and the shovels, and the snuffers, and the bowls, and the spoons, and all the vessels of brass, wherewith they ministered, took they away.
19And the basons, and the firepans, and the bowls, and the caldrons, and the candlesticks, and the spoons, and the cups; that which was of gold in gold, and that which was of silver in silver, took the captain of the guard away,
(Jer. 52:18‑19)
the shovels.
the basons.
So Hiram.
Ex. 39:32‑43• 32{i}And all the labour of the tabernacle of the tent of meeting was ended; and the children of Israel had done it according to all that Jehovah had commanded Moses—so had they done it.{/i}
33{i}And they brought the tabernacle to Moses—the tent, and all its utensils, its clasps, its boards, its bars, and its pillars, and its bases;{/i}
34{i}and the covering of rams' skins dyed red, and the covering of badgers' skins, and the veil of separation;{/i}
35{i}the ark of the testimony, and its staves, and the mercy-seat;{/i}
36{i}the table, all its utensils, and the showbread;{/i}
37{i}the pure candlestick, its lamps, the lamps set in order, and all its utensils, and the oil for the light;{/i}
38{i}and the golden altar, and the anointing oil, and the incense of fragrant drugs; and the curtain for the entrance of the tent;{/i}
39{i}the copper altar, and the copper grating that was for it, its staves and all its utensils; the laver and its stand;{/i}
40{i}the hangings of the court, its pillars, and its bases; and the curtain for the gate of the court, its cords, and its pegs; and all the vessel's of service of the tabernacle, for the tent of meeting;{/i}
41{i}the garments of service, for service in the sanctuary; the holy garments for Aaron the priest, and his sons' garments, to serve as priests.{/i}
42{i}According to all that Jehovah had commanded Moses, so had the children of Israel done all the labour.{/i}
43{i}And Moses saw all the work, and behold, they had done it as Jehovah had commanded—so had they done it; and Moses blessed them.{/i}
(Ex. 39:32‑43)
 The work of Hiram ends here. It was, in type, the development in this world by the power of the Holy Spirit of what Christ is and of what God Himself is in His government. (Hiram and the Court: 1 Kings 7:13-51 by H.L. Rossier)

J. N. Darby Translation

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And Hiram made the laversb, and the shovels, and the bowlsc. So Hiram ended doing all the work that he made for king Solomon for the house of Jehovah:

JND Translation Notes

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b
Some read "cauldrons" or "pots," cf. ver. 45.
c
"Bowls" or "basons" to receive the blood for sprinkling; as Ex. 27.3; Num. 7.13; and so vers. 45,50.

W. Kelly Translation

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And Hiram made the lavers, and the shovels, and the bowls. So Hiram ended doing all the work that he made for king Solomon for the house of Jehovah:

WK Verse Note

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(Note: Words in italics have been inserted from the J. N. Darby translation where the W. Kelly translation doesn’t exist.)