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Our "knob" (Exodus 25:31 - 36-37; Exodus 17-22).
(1) Kaphtor, pomegranate-like knops or balls, associated with flowers in architectural ornamentation, also a boss from which, as crowning the stem, branches spring out. In instead of "lintel" (kaphtor), and translated "the sphere-like capital of the column." The Hebrew implies something crowning a work and at its top.
(2) Peqaiym (; ), gourd-like oval ornaments running in straight rows, carved in the cedar wainscot of the temple interior, and an ornament cast round the great" sea" below the brim; in double row, ten to a cubit, two inches from center to center (; ). Paqowt means "wild gourds".