mechona · base, stand

What it means

mechona (מְכוֹנָה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “base, stand”.

The support on which something rests. In the temple, the ten bases with wheels that held the water basins.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. A support that holds something, as in the temple.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• base ×9
• bases ×9
• stands ×6

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• 1 Kings×15
• 2 Kings×3
• 2 Chronicles×2
• Ezra×1
• Jeremiah×3

• 1 Kings 7:27

  And he made the ten bases of bronze: four cubits was the length of the one base, and four cubits its width, and three cubits its height.

• 1 Kings 7:28

  And this was the work of the base: they had panels, and panels were between the crossbars.

• 1 Kings 7:30

  And four wheels of bronze belonged to each base, and axles of bronze; and its four corners had supports; below the basin were the supports, cast, with wreaths beside each.

• 1 Kings 7:32

  And the four wheels were below the panels, and the axles of the wheels were in the base; and the height of the one wheel was a cubit and a half.

• 1 Kings 7:34

  And four supports were at the four corners of each base; its supports were of the base itself.

• 1 Kings 7:35

  And on the top of the base was a piece half a cubit in height, round all around; and on the top of the base its handles and its panels were of it.

• 1 Kings 7:37

  Like this he made the ten bases: one casting, one measure, one form for all of them.

• 1 Kings 7:38

  And he made ten basins of bronze; forty baths each basin held; each basin was four cubits; one basin on each base for the ten bases.

• 1 Kings 7:39

  And he put the bases, five on the side of the house on the right, and five on the side of the house on its left; and the Sea he put on the right side of the house, toward the east, facing south.

• 1 Kings 7:43

  and the ten bases, and the ten basins on the bases;

• 2 Kings 16:17

  King Ahaz cut off the panels of the stands, and removed from them the basin; and the Sea he took down from the bronze oxen that were under it, and put it on a pavement of stones.

• 2 Kings 25:13

  The pillars of bronze that were in the house of YHWH, and the stands, and the bronze Sea that was in the house of YHWH, the Chaldeans broke in pieces, and they carried their bronze to Babylon.

• 2 Kings 25:16

  The two pillars, the one Sea, and the stands that Solomon had made for the house of YHWH: there was no weight for the bronze of all these utensils.

• 2 Chronicles 4:14

  he made the bases, and he made the basins on the bases;

• Ezra 3:3

  And they set the altar on its bases, for terror was on them because of the peoples of the lands; and they offered burnt offerings on it to YHWH, burnt offerings for the morning and for the evening.

• Jeremiah 27:19

  For thus says YHWH Tsevaot concerning the pillars, and concerning the Sea, and concerning the stands, and concerning the rest of the vessels that are left in this city,

• Jeremiah 52:17

  The pillars of bronze that were for the house of YHWH, and the stands, and the bronze Sea that was in the house of YHWH, the Chaldeans broke in pieces, and they carried all their bronze to Babylon.

• Jeremiah 52:20

  The two pillars, the one Sea, and the twelve bronze oxen that were under the stands, which King Solomon had made for the house of YHWH: there was no weight for their bronze, of all these utensils.

And 6 more times.