Knops - literally, “gourds,” - i. e. a boss or ball ornament encircled the rim of the bowl in two rows.
Related Commentaries of 1 Kings 7:24
1 Kings 7:24
24 And under the brim of it round about there were knops compassing it, ten in a cubit, compassing the sea round about: the knops were cast in two rows, when it was cast.