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. Within the chapiter Within the little base, which he calls the chapiter, because it rose up from, and stood above the great base. And above Above the chapiter; for the mouth went up and grew wider like a funnel. Was a cubit In height, (1 Kings 7:35,) whereof half a cubit was above the chapiter or little base, and the other half below it. A cubit and half In compass. Four-square So the innermost part, called the mouth, was round, but the outward part was square, as when a circle is made within a quadrangle.
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1 Kings 7:31
31 And the mouth of it within the chapiter and above was a cubit: but the mouth thereof was round after the work of the base, a cubit and an half: and also upon the mouth of it were gravings with their borders, foursquare, not round.