מְכוֹנָה mekhonah

Hebrew word for “base” · Strong’s H4350 · used 24 times in 18 verses

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Meaning

fixed resting place, base, pedestal; Also means: me.khu.nah (מְכֻנָה "base" H4369)

How it is translated

Glosses given for mekhonah in context, with how often each is used:

• stands 14
• stand 8
• belonged to the stand 1
• foundations 1

Where it is used

Chapters where it is used most

1 Kings 7 (10), 2 Kings 25 (2), Jeremiah 52 (2), 2 Kings 16 (1), 2 Chronicles 4 (1), Ezra 3 (1), Jeremiah 27 (1)

Forms

• המכנות 13
• המכונה 4
• המכנה 3
• למכונה 1
• במכונה 1
• והמכנות 1
• מכונתיו 1

Words used with it

Words that share verses with mekhonah more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

• נְחֹשֶׁת nechoshet “bronze” 8
• כִּיֹּר kiyyor “basin” 5
• מִסְגֶּרֶת misgeret “perimeter” 4
• יָם yam “sea” 7
• עַמּוּד ammud “pillar” 5
• אֶחָד echad “one” 8
• אַרְבַּע arba “four” 5
• אַמָּה ammah “cubit” 4
• עֶשֶׂר eser “ten” 4
• קוֹמָה qomah “height” 3
• כָּתֵף kateph “shoulder” 3
• תַּחַת tachat “underneath” 4

Key verses

The verses using mekhonah that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

• 1 Kings 7:27 — And he made ten bases of brass; four cubits was the length of one base, and four cubits the breadth thereof, and three cubits the height of it.
• 1 Kings 7:30 — And every base had four brasen wheels, and plates of brass: and the four corners thereof had undersetters: under the laver were undersetters molten, at the…
• 1 Kings 7:38 — Then made he ten lavers of brass: one laver contained forty baths: and every laver was four cubits: and upon every one of the ten bases one laver.
• 1 Kings 7:39 — And he put five bases on the right side of the house, and five on the left side of the house: and he set the sea on the right side of the house eastward over…
• 2 Kings 16:17 — And king Ahaz cut off the borders of the bases, and removed the laver from off them; and took down the sea from off the brasen oxen that were under it, and put…
• 2 Kings 25:13 — And the pillars of brass that were in the house of the LORD, and the bases, and the brasen sea that was in the house of the LORD, did the Chaldees break in…
• 2 Kings 25:16 — The two pillars, one sea, and the bases which Solomon had made for the house of the LORD; the brass of all these vessels was without weight.
• 2 Chronicles 4:14 — He made also bases, and lavers made he upon the bases;
• Ezra 3:3 — And they set the altar upon his bases; for fear was upon them because of the people of those countries: and they offered burnt offerings thereon unto the LORD,…
• Jeremiah 27:19 — For thus saith the LORD of hosts concerning the pillars, and concerning the sea, and concerning the bases, and concerning the residue of the vessels that…
• Jeremiah 52:17 — Also the pillars of brass that were in the house of the LORD, and the bases, and the brasen sea that was in the house of the LORD, the Chaldeans brake, and…
• Jeremiah 52:20 — The two pillars, one sea, and twelve brasen bulls that were under the bases, which king Solomon had made in the house of the LORD: the brass of all these…

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Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.