2CH 4:5 Parallel Verse View

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BrLXX Καὶ τὸ πάχος αὐτῆς παλαιστὴς, καὶ τὸ χεῖλος αὐτῆς ὡς χεῖλος ποτηρίου, διαγεγλυμμένα βλαστοὺς κρίνου, χωροῦσαν μετρητὰς τρισχιλίους· καὶ ἐξετέλεσε.
(Kai to paⱪos autaʸs palaistaʸs, kai to ⱪeilos autaʸs hōs ⱪeilos potaʸriou, diageglummena blastous krinou, ⱪōrousan metraʸtas trisⱪilious; kai exetelese. )

BrTr And its thickness was a hand-breadth, and its brim as the brim of a cup, graven with flowers of lilies, holding three thousand measures: and he finished it.

ULT And its thickness was a span, and its edge like a work of an edge of a cup, a bud of a lily, taking hold, 3000 baths it could contain.

UST The sides of the tank were eight centimeters thick. The tank’s brim was fashioned like the brim of a cup; it resembled a lily blossom. The tank held sixty-six kiloliters of water.

BSB It was a handbreadth thick,[fn] and its rim was fashioned like the brim of a cup, like a lily blossom. It could hold three thousand baths.[fn]

4:5 A handbreadth is approximately 2.9 inches or 7.4 centimeters.

4:5 3,000 baths is approximately 17,400 gallons or 66,000 liters.

OEB No OEB 2CH book available

WEBBE It was a handbreadth thick. Its brim was made like the brim of a cup, like the flower of a lily. It received and held three thousand baths.[fn]

4:5 A bath is about 5.6 U. S. gallons or 21.1 litres, so 3,000 baths is about 16,800 gallons or 63.3 kilolitres.

WMBB (Same as above including footnotes)

NET It was four fingers thick and its rim was like that of a cup shaped like a lily blossom. It could hold 18,000 gallons.

LSV And its thickness [is] a handbreadth, and its lip as the work of the lip of a cup flowered with lilies; holding [within]—it contains three thousand baths.

FBV It was as thick as the width of a hand, and its edge was like the flared edge of a cup or a lily flower. It held three thousand baths.[fn]

4:5 See 1 Kings 7:26 which lists the capacity as two thousand baths.

T4T The sides of the tank were 3 inches thick, and its rim was shaped like a cup that curved outward like the petals of flowers. The basin held about 16,500 gallons of water.

LEB And its thickness was a handbreadth, and its brim was like the working of the lip of a cup, the blossom of a lily. And it held three thousand baths.

BBE It was as thick as a man's open hand, and the edge of it was curved like the edge of a cup, like a lily flower; it would take three thousand baths.

Moff No Moff 2CH book available

JPS 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 received and held three thousand baths.

ASV 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 received and held three thousand baths.

DRA Now the thickness of it was a handbreadth, and the brim of it was like the brim of a cup, or of a crisped lily: and it held three thousand measures.

YLT And its thickness [is] a handbreadth, and its lip as the work of the lip of a cup flowered with lilies; taking hold — baths three thousand it containeth.

Drby And its thickness was a hand-breadth, and its brim like the work of the brim of a cup, with lily-blossoms; in capacity it held three thousand baths.

RV And it was an handbreadth thick; and the brim thereof was wrought like the brim of a cup, like the flower of a lily: it received and held three thousand baths.

Wbstr And the thickness of it was a hand-breadth, and the brim of it like the work of the brim of a cup, with flowers of lilies; and it received and held three thousand baths.

KJB-1769 And the thickness of it was an handbreadth, and the brim of it like the work of the brim of a cup, with flowers of lilies; and it received and held three thousand baths.[fn]

4.5 with flowers…: or, like a lilyflower

KJB-1611 [fn]And the thicknes of it was an hand breadth, & the brim of it like the worke of the brim of a cup, with flowers of Lillies: and it receiued and held three thousand baths.
(And the thicknes of it was an hand breadth, and the brim of it like the work of the brim of a cup, with flowers of Lillies: and it received and held three thousand baths.)

4:5 Or, like a Lillie flower.

Bshps And the thyckest of it was an hande breadth, and the brym like the brym of a cuppe, with floures of lilies: and it receaued and helde three thousande battes.
(And the thyckest of it was an hand breadth, and the brym like the brym of a cup, with floures of lilies: and it received and held three thousand battes.)

Gnva And the thickenesse thereof was an hande breadth, and the brim thereof was like the worke of the brim of a cuppe with floures of lilies: it conteined three thousand baths.
(And the thickenesse thereof was an hand breadth, and the brim thereof was like the work of the brim of a cup with floures of lilies: it contained three thousand baths. )

Cvdl The thicknesse of it was an handbredth, and the edge of it was like the edge of a cuppe, and as a floured rose. And it conteyned thre thousande Batthes.
(The thicknesse of it was an handbredth, and the edge of it was like the edge of a cup, and as a floured rose. And it conteyned three thousand Batthes.)

Wycl Sotheli the thicknesse therof hadde the mesure of a pawm of the hond, and the brynke therof was as the brynke of a cuppe, ethir of a lilie crokid ayen, and it took thre thousynde metretis of mesure.
(Truly the thicknesse thereof had the measure of a pawm of the hand, and the brynke thereof was as the brynke of a cup, ethir of a lilie crooked again, and it took three thousand metretis of measure.)

Luth Seine Dicke war eine Hand breit, und sein Rand war wie eines Bechers Rand und eine aufgegangene Rose; und es faßte dreitausend Bath.
(Seine Dicke what/which one hand breit, and his Rand what/which like one Bechers Rand and one aufgegangene Rose; and it faßte threetausend Bath.)

ClVg Porro vastitas ejus habebat mensuram palmi, et labium illius erat quasi labium calicis, vel repandi lilii: capiebatque tria millia metretas.[fn]
(Further vastitas his had mensuram palmi, and labium illius was as_if labium calicis, or repandi lilii: capiebatque tria thousands metretas. )

4.5 Porro vastitas. Grossitudo quam Josephus quatuor digitorum esse dixit, demonstrans quæ fuit magnitudo palmi. Idem autem hæc significant. Quisquis enim fide, spe, et charitate secundum quatuor Evangeliorum doctrinam opera facit justitiæ, percipit et mercedem æternæ vitæ. Tria millia metretas. Millenarius perfectionem significat, quia denarius quadratum solidum facit. Decies enim decem, centum faciunt, qui est quasi quadrata figura, sed plana: sed ut in altitudinem surgat et solida efficiatur, multiplica centum per de cem, et fiunt mille. Quo numero stabilis et insuperabilis, et velut quadrata justorum conscientia signatur. Quocunque enim quadratum vertis, stabit. Sic electorum animus nulla tentatione a statu rectitudinis inclinatur. Capit mare tria millia metretas; cum baptismi sacramentum in fide Trinitatis datum, in se ablutis confert omnium remissionem peccatorum

4.5 Further vastitas. Grossitudo how Yosephus four digitorum esse dixit, demonstrans which fuit magnitudo palmi. Idem however these_things significant. Quiswho/any because fide, spe, and charitate after/second four Evangeliorum doctrinam opera facit justitiæ, percipit and mercedem æternæ vitæ. Tria thousands metretas. Millenarius perfectionem significat, because denarius quadratum solidum facit. Decies because ten, hundred faciunt, who it_is as_if quadrata figura, but plana: but as in altitudinem surgat and solida efficiatur, multiplica hundred through about cem, and fiunt mille. Quo number stabilis and insuperabilis, and velut quadrata justorum conscientia signatur. Quocunque because quadratum vertis, stabit. So electorum animus nulla tentatione from statu rectitudinis inclinatur. Capit the_sea tria thousands metretas; when/with baptismi sacramentum in fide Trinitatis datum, in se ablutis confert omnium remissionem sinners

UTN uW Translation Notes:

Note 1 topic: translate-bdistance

(Occurrence 0) thick as the width of a hand

(Some words not found in UHB: and,thickness,its handbreadth and,rim,its like,fashioned language_of cup blossom lily holding baths three thousand held )

This is about 8 centimeters.

Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / activepassive

(Occurrence 0) its brim was forged like the brim of a cup, like a lily blossom

(Some words not found in UHB: and,thickness,its handbreadth and,rim,its like,fashioned language_of cup blossom lily holding baths three thousand held )

If your language does not use the passive form in this way, you can state this in active form or in another way that is natural in your language. Alternate translation: “Solomon’s workers forged the brim to look like the brim of a cup, to curve outward like a lily”

Note 3 topic: translate-numbers

(Occurrence 0) three thousand baths

(Some words not found in UHB: and,thickness,its handbreadth and,rim,its like,fashioned language_of cup blossom lily holding baths three thousand held )

“3,000 baths.” A bath is a unit of volume equal to about 22 liters. Alternate translation: “66 kiloliters” (See also: translate-bvolume)

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