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Knops; or, carved or molten figures; for learned Hebricians note, that this word signifies the figures or pictures of all sorts, as flowers, beasts, &c. This general word is particularly explained of oxen, 2Ch_4:3, unless there were so many figures, or sculptures of gourds, or other flowers; and in each of these a little ox’s head.
Ten in a cubit; so there were three hundred in all.
The knops were cast together with the sea, not carved.
In two rows: it seems doubtful whether the second row had ten in each cubit, and so there were three hundred more; or whether the ten were distributed into five in each row.