2 Kings 16:17

Bible in Basic English (1941)

And King Ahaz took off the sides of the wheeled bases, and took down the great water-vessel from off the brass oxen which were under it and put it on a floor of stone.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וַיְקַצֵּץ֩ הַמֶּ֨לֶךְ אָחָ֜ז אֶת־הַמִּסְגְּר֣וֹת הַמְּכֹנ֗וֹת וַיָּ֤סַר מֵֽעֲלֵיהֶם֙ *ואת־**אֶת־הַכִּיֹּ֔ר וְאֶת־הַיָּ֣ם הוֹרִ֔ד מֵעַ֛ל הַבָּקָ֥ר הַנְּחֹ֖שֶׁת אֲשֶׁ֣ר תַּחְתֶּ֑יהָ וַיִּתֵּ֣ן אֹת֔וֹ עַ֖ל מַרְצֶ֥פֶת אֲבָנִֽים

Transliteration

wayəqaṣṣēṣ hammeleḵ ʾāḥāz ʾeṯ-hammisgərôṯ hamməḵōnôṯ wayyāsar from upon them ʾeṯ-hakkiyyōr and ʾeṯ-hayyām hôrîḏ from upon habbāqār hannəḥōšeṯ which were under it wayyittēn it on marṣepeṯ ʾăḇānîm

Grammar Details

• *wayəqaṣṣēṣ*: waw consecutive + Piel imperfect, 3rd masculine singular - and he cut off
• *hammeleḵ*: definite article + masculine singular noun - the king
• *ʾāḥāz*: proper name - Ahaz
• *ʾeṯ*: direct object marker
• *hammisgərôṯ*: definite article + feminine plural noun - the panels/borders
• *hamməḵōnôṯ*: definite article + feminine plural noun - the stands
• *wayyāsar*: waw consecutive + Hiphil imperfect, 3rd masculine singular - and he removed
• *hakkiyyōr*: definite article + masculine singular noun - the basin
• *hayyām*: definite article + masculine singular noun - the sea
• *hôrîḏ*: Hiphil perfect, 3rd masculine singular - he brought down
• *habbāqār*: definite article + masculine singular collective - the oxen
• *hannəḥōšeṯ*: definite article + feminine singular noun - the bronze
• *wayyittēn*: waw consecutive + Qal imperfect, 3rd masculine singular - and he put
• *marṣepeṯ*: feminine singular construct - pavement of
• *ʾăḇānîm*: feminine plural noun - stones

Word Meanings

• *wayəqaṣṣēṣ*: cut off/cut away/removed
• *hammisgərôṯ*: panels/borders/decorative frames
• *hamməḵōnôṯ*: stands/bases/pedestals
• *marṣepeṯ*: pavement/stone platform

Referenced Verses

• 1 Kgs 7:23-39 : 23 And he made a great metal water-vessel ten cubits across from edge to edge, five cubits high and thirty cubits round. 24 And under the edge of it, circling it all round for ten cubits, were two lines of flower buds, made together with it from liquid metal. 25 It was supported on twelve oxen, with their back parts turned to the middle of it, three of them facing to the north, three to the west, three to the south, and three to the east; the vessel was resting on top of them. 26 It was as thick as a man's open hand, and was curved like the edge of a cup, like the flower of a lily: it would take two thousand baths. 27 And he made ten wheeled bases of brass; every one four cubits long, four cubits wide, and three cubits high. 28 And the bases were made in this way; their sides were square, fixed in a framework; 29 And on the square sides between the frames were lions, oxen, and winged ones; and the same on the frame; and over and under the lions and the oxen and the winged ones were steps. 30 Every base had four wheels of brass, turning on brass rods, and their four angles had angle-plates under them; the angle-plates under the base were of metal, and there were ornaments at the side of every one. 31 The mouth of it inside the angle-plate was one cubit across; it was round like a pillar, a cubit and a half across; it had designs cut on it; the sides were square, not round. 32 The four wheels were under the frames, and the rods on which the wheels were fixed were in the base; the wheels were a cubit and a half high. 33 The wheels were made like carriage-wheels, the rods on which they were fixed, the parts forming their edges, their rods and the middle points of them, were all formed out of liquid metal. 34 And there were four angle-plates at the four angles of every base, forming part of the structure of the base. 35 And at the top of the base there was a round vessel, half a cubit high; 36 In the spaces of the flat sides and on the frames of them, he made designs of winged ones, lions, and palm-trees, with ornamented edges all round. 37 All the ten bases were made in this way, after the same design, of the same size and form. 38 And he made ten brass washing-vessels, everyone taking forty baths, and measuring four cubits; one vessel was placed on every one of the ten bases. 39 And he put the bases by the house, five on the right side and five on the left; and he put the great water-vessel on the right side of the house, to the east, facing south.
• 2 Kgs 25:13-16 : 13 And the brass pillars in the house of the Lord, and the wheeled bases, and the great brass water-vessel in the house of the Lord, were broken up by the Chaldaeans, who took the brass to Babylon. 14 And the pots and the spades and the scissors for the lights and the spoons, and all the brass vessels used in the Lord's house, they took away. 15 And the fire-trays and the basins; the gold of the gold vessels and the silver of the silver vessels, were all taken away by the captain of the armed men. 16 The two pillars, the great water-vessel and the wheeled bases, which Solomon had made for the house of the Lord: the brass of all these vessels was without weight.
• 2 Chr 4:14-15 : 14 And he made the ten bases and the ten washing-vessels which were on the bases; 15 The great water-vessel with the twelve oxen under it.
• 2 Chr 28:24 : 24 And Ahaz got together the vessels of the house of God, cutting up all the vessels of the house of God, and shutting the doors of the Lord's house; and he made altars in every part of Jerusalem.
• 2 Chr 29:19 : 19 And all the vessels which were turned out by King Ahaz in his sin while he was king, we have put in order and made holy, and now they are in their places before the altar of the Lord.
• Jer 52:20 : 20 The two pillars, the great water-vessel, and the twelve brass oxen which were under it, and the ten wheeled bases, which King Solomon had made for the house of the Lord: the brass of all these vessels was without weight.