Knop

Knop. A word employed, in the Authorized Version, to translate two terms which refer to some architectural or ornamental object, but which have nothing in common.

1. Caphtor. -- This occurs in the description of the candlestick of the sacred tent in Exo 25:31-36 and Exo 37:17-22.

2. The second term, Peka’im, is found only in 1Ki 6:18 and 1Ki 7:24. The word no doubt signifies some globular thing resembling a small gourd or an egg, though as to the character of the ornament, we are quite in the dark.

Our "knob" (Exodus 25:31 - 36-37; Exodus 17-22).

(1) Kaphtor, pomegranate-like knops or balls, associated with flowers in architectural ornamentation, also a boss from which, as crowning the stem, branches spring out. In Amo 9:1 instead of "lintel" (kaphtor), and Zep 2:14 translated "the sphere-like capital of the column." The Hebrew implies something crowning a work and at its top.

(2) Peqaiym (1Ki 6:18; 1Ki 7:24), gourd-like oval ornaments running in straight rows, carved in the cedar wainscot of the temple interior, and an ornament cast round the great" sea" below the brim; in double row, ten to a cubit, two inches from center to center (1Ki 6:18; 1Ki 7:24). Paqowt means "wild gourds".

Knop. An ornament of the golden candlestick, Exo 25:31; Exo 37:17, and elsewhere, probably formed like a pomegranate. Also a carved ornament of the cedar-work of the temple, and the molten sea, 1Ki 6:18; 1Ki 7:24, perhaps like wild gourds or cucumbers.

KNOP.—Another form of ‘knob,’ is used to render two different words in EV [Note: English Version.] . 1. The knops of the stem and arms of the golden candlestick, or rather lampstand, of the Tabernacle (Exo 25:31 etc.) were the spheroidal ornaments still recognizable in the representation on the Arch of Tit 2:1-15. Knops also denote certain ornaments, probably egg- or gourd-shaped, carved on the cedar lining of the walls of Solomon’s Temple (1Ki 6:18—note RVm [Note: Revised Version margin.] ), and similar ornaments on the ‘brazen sea’ (1Ki 7:24).

A. R. S. Kennedy.

nop: In Exo 25:31 ff; Exo 37:17 ff (kaphtōr), part of the ornaments of the golden candlestick; in 1Ki 6:18; 1Ki 7:24 (p^eḳa‛ı̄m), gourd-like ornaments of the lining of Solomon’s temple, and of the brazen sea (in 1Ki 6:18, the Revised Version margin “gourds”). See CANDLESTICK, GOLDEN; TEMPLE; SEA, THE MOLTEN.

Exo 25:31 (c) These knops were ornaments on the candlestick. They represent those beautiful traits of character which should adorn the Christian life and cause the Christian’s faith to be admired by others.