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Meaning of KNOP

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
\Knop\, n. [OE. knop, knoppe; cf. D. knop, knoop, G. knopf,
Dan. knap, knop, Sw. knapp, knopp, button, bud, Icel. knappr,
and E. knap, n. Cf. {Knap}, {Knob}.]
1. A knob; a bud; a bunch; a button.
         Four bowls made like unto almonds, with their knops
         and their flowers.                    --Ex. xxv. 21.
2. (Arch.) Any boldly projecting sculptured ornament; esp.,
   the ornamental termination of a pinnacle, and then
   synonymous with finial; -- called also {knob}, and
   {knosp}.
{Knop sedge} (Bot.), the bur reed ({Sparganium}); -- so
   called from its globular clusters of seed vessels.
   --Prior.
 
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Easton Bible Dictionary
 
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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.

 

 

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