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And Kingוַ הַמֶּלֶךְSolomonשְׁלֹמֹהsentיִּשְׁלַחand tookוַיִּקַּחHiramאֶת חִירָםfrom Tyre.מִצֹּר
1 Kings 7:13
Study it in the app“And King Solomon sent and took Hiram from Tyre.”
With the Hebrew beneath
1 Kings 7:13, word by word
- And Kingמֶּלֶךְmelech
king
A king who rules a people.
Where else “melech” appears- Solomonשְׁלֹמֹהshelomo
Solomon
Solomon: son of David and Bathsheba, who reigned after him and built the temple. His name comes from "peace" (shalom).
Where else “shelomo” appears- sentיִּשְׁלַחyishlach
send
To send someone or something.
Where else “yishlach” appears- and tookיִּקַּחyikach
take
To grasp something in the hand to carry or use it.
Where else “yikach” appears- Hiramחִירָםchiram
Hiram
Hiram: king of Tyre, friend of David and of Solomon, who sent cedar wood and craftsmen (2 Samuel 5:11; 1 Kings 5); also a craftsman from Tyre who worked on the temple (1 Kings 7:13).
Where else “chiram” appears- from Tyreצֹּרtsor
Tyre
See it on the mapWhere else “tsor” appears
Translation note
This Hiram is a craftsman; he is not the king of Tyre of chapter 5.
Places in this verse
Tyre
Today: Tyre (Sour), Lebanon
A port city on the Mediterranean coast, in present-day Lebanon, about 25 miles (40 km) north of Israel's present border.
Its king Hiram helped David and Solomon with timber and workers (1 Kgs 5:1). Ezekiel announced its fall (Ezek 27:2), and Jesus mentioned it when rebuking towns that did not change their minds (Matt 11:21).
The context
12And the great court all around had three rows of hewn stone and a row of beams of cedar, as also for the inner court of the house of YHWH and the portico of the house.
13 · This verse (above)
14He was the son of a widow from the tribe of Naphtali, and his father was a man of Tyre, a worker in bronze; and he was filled with wisdom and understanding and knowledge to do every work in bronze. And he came to King Solomon and did all his work.