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The mouth of it; so he calls that part in the top of the base which was left hollow, that the foot of the laver might be let into it, and fastened in it.
Within the chapiter, i.e. within the little base, which he calls the chapiter, because it rose up from and stood above the great base, as the head doth above the rest of the body.
And above; above the chapiter; for the mouth went up and grew wider, like a funnel.
Was a cubit; either in breadth; or rather in height, 1Ki_7:35; whereof half a cubit was above the chapiter or little base, as is said, 1Ki_7:35, and the other half is here implied to be within it, and below it.
A cubit and a half, to wit, in compass.
Four-square, not round; so the innermost part, called the mouth, was round, but the outward part was square, as when a circle is made within a quadrangle.