Study it in the app“Under it were figures of oxen all around, encircling it, ten to a cubit, surrounding the Sea all around; the oxen were in two rows, cast in its casting.”
Underתַּחַתitלוֹwere figuresוּדְמוּתof oxenבְּקָרִיםall around,סָבִיב סָבִיבencirclingסוֹבְבִיםit,אֹתוֹtenעֶשֶׂרto a cubit,בָּאַמָּהsurroundingמַקִּיפִיםthe Seaהַיָּםall around;סָבִיבthe oxenהַבָּקָרwere in twoשְׁנַיִםrows,טוּרִיםcastיְצוּקִיםin its casting.בְּמֻצַקְתּוֹ
likeness
Likeness, resemblance; form, model; "like". It goes with "image": the human being was made to be like God in some way and to represent him, without being equal to him.
Where else “demut” appearscattle, herd
Cattle: cows, oxen, bulls; a herd.
Where else “bekarim” appearsaround
In a circle or on every side of something: the camp, the city, the altar.
Where else “saviv” appearssurround
To enclose someone or something on every side.
Where else “sovvim” appearsten
Ten.
Where else “eser” appearscubit
About 45 centimeters: from the bent arm to the fingertips.
Where else “ama” appearsgo around
To go around a city, or to enclose someone on every side.
Where else “makifim” appearssea
The sea, or a large lake.
Where else “yam” appearstwo
A pair, a quantity of two.
Where else “shenayim” appearsrow
Row, course (of stones or beams).
Where else “turim” appearscast
To melt metal and pour it into a mold.
Where else “yetsukim” appearscasting
A piece made by pouring molten metal into a mold.
Where else “mutsakt” appears1 Kings 7:24 says “gourds” where this says “oxen.”
Other books that tell the same thing or quote these words.
The molten sea
2 Chronicles 4:2-5
2He made the Sea of cast metal, ten cubits from its rim to its rim, round all around, and five cubits its height, and a line of thirty cubits went around it all around. 3Under it were figures of oxen all around, encircling it, ten to a cubit, surrounding the Sea all around; the oxen were in two rows, cast in its casting. 4It stood on twelve oxen, three facing north, three facing west, three facing south, and three facing east; the Sea was upon them, above, and all their hindquarters were inward. 5Its thickness was a handbreadth, and its rim was like the work of the rim of a cup, a lily flower; it took in and held three thousand baths.
23And he made the Sea of cast metal, ten cubits from its rim to its rim, round all around, and five cubits its height; and a line of thirty cubits went around it all around. 24And gourds below its rim all around surrounded it, ten to the cubit, encircling the Sea all around; the gourds were in two rows, cast in its casting. 25It stood on twelve oxen: three facing north, and three facing west, and three facing south, and three facing east; and the Sea was on them above, and all their hindquarters were inward. 26And its thickness was a handbreadth, and its rim like the work of the rim of a cup, like a lily blossom; it held two thousand baths.
2He made the Sea of cast metal, ten cubits from its rim to its rim, round all around, and five cubits its height, and a line of thirty cubits went around it all around.
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4It stood on twelve oxen, three facing north, three facing west, three facing south, and three facing east; the Sea was upon them, above, and all their hindquarters were inward.
