Strong’s H6497 · Hebrew
פֶּקַע
peqaʻ · peh'-kah
Origin from an unused root meaning to burst; only used as an architectural term of an ornament similar to פַּקֻּעָה (H6498),
Meaning a semi-globe
In the King James Version knop.
In 2 verses of the King James Version
- 1 Kings 6:18And the cedar of the house within was carved with knops and open flowers: all was cedar; there was no stone seen.
- 1 Kings 7:24And 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.
From James Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890): its Greek dictionary in the edition of Ulrik Petersen, its Hebrew and Chaldee dictionary in that of David Troidl and David Instone-Brewer; the King James words numbered as in the edition the site sets the King James Version from. Public domain.