Bible Dictionary
Knop
A knop was an ornamental architectural feature. It described decorations on the golden lampstand and gourd-like ornaments in Solomon’s temple and on the bronze sea.
Definition
A knop was an ornamental architectural feature. One term described the swell beneath the cups of the golden lampstand, probably resembling almond fruit; another described gourd-like ornaments used in the temple and on the bronze sea.
Biblical Usage
Knops appear in the descriptions of the tabernacle’s golden lampstand and Solomon’s temple furnishings, including the castings around the bronze sea.
Historical Background
The Authorized Version uses “knop” for two different ornamental objects, one associated with the lampstand and the other with temple and bronze-sea decoration.
Scripture References
Related Figures
Historical Bible Dictionaries
Easton's Bible Dictionary
Some architectural ornament. (1.) Heb. kaphtor (Ex. 25:31-36), occurring in the description of the candlestick. It was an ornamental swell beneath the cups of the candlestick, probably an imitation of the fruit of the almond. (2.) Heb. peka’im, found only in 1 Kings 6:18 and 7:24, an ornament resembling a small gourd or an egg, on the cedar wainscot in the temple and on the castings on the brim of the brazen sea.
Smith's Bible Dictionary
a word employed in the Authorized Version to translate two terms which refer to some architectural or ornamental object, but which have nothing in common.
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (ISBE)
<p>nop: In Ex 25:31 ff; 37:17 ff (kaphtor), part of the ornaments of the golden candlestick; in 1Ki 6:18; 7:24 (peqa`im), gourd-like ornaments of the lining of Solomon's temple, and of the brazen sea (in 1Ki 6:18, the Revised Version margin "gourds").</p><p>See CANDLESTICK, THE GOLDEN; TEMPLE; SEA, THE MOLTEN.</p>