Mekhonah מְכוֹנָה

Mekhonah (Hebrew מְכוֹנָה, Strong's H4350) is a Hebrew feminine noun meaning “base”. It occurs 24 times in 18 verses of the Old Testament.

Definition

From the STEPBible Brief Lexicon of Hebrew (based on the abridged Brown-Driver-Briggs), STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.

Translated as

Verses

Every verse with Mekhonah, with the English words that translate it highlighted (KJV or BSB; other translations show the KJV here).

1 Kings

• 1 Kings 7:27
  And he made ten bases of brass; four cubits was the length of one base, and four cubits the breadth thereof, and three cubits the height of it.In addition, he made ten movable stands of bronze, each four cubits long, four cubits wide, and three cubits high.
• 1 Kings 7:28
  And the work of the bases was on this manner: they had borders, and the borders were between the ledges:This was the design of the stands: They had side panels attached to uprights,
• 1 Kings 7:30
  And every base had four brasen wheels, and plates of brass: and the four corners thereof had undersetters: under the laver were undersetters molten, at the side of every addition.Each stand had four bronze wheels with bronze axles and a basin resting on four supports, with wreaths at each side.
• 1 Kings 7:32
  And under the borders were four wheels; and the axletrees of the wheels were joined to the base: and the height of a wheel was a cubit and half a cubit.There were four wheels under the panels, and the axles of the wheels were attached to the stand; each wheel was a cubit and a half in diameter.
• 1 Kings 7:34
  And there were four undersetters to the four corners of one base: and the undersetters were of the very base itself.Each stand had four handles, one for each corner, projecting from the stand.
• 1 Kings 7:35
  And in the top of the base was there a round compass of half a cubit high: and on the top of the base the ledges thereof and the borders thereof were of the same.At the top of each stand was a circular band half a cubit high. The supports and panels were cast as a unit with the top of the stand.
• 1 Kings 7:37
  After this manner he made the ten bases: all of them had one casting, one measure, and one size.In this way he made the ten stands, each with the same casting, dimensions, and shape.
• 1 Kings 7:38
  Then made he ten lavers of brass: one laver contained forty baths: and every laver was four cubits: and upon every one of the ten bases one laver.He also made ten bronze basins, each holding forty baths and measuring four cubits across, one basin for each of the ten stands.
• 1 Kings 7:39
  And he put five bases on the right side of the house, and five on the left side of the house: and he set the sea on the right side of the house eastward over against the south.He set five stands on the south side of the temple and five on the north, and he put the Sea on the south side, at the southeast corner of the temple.
• 1 Kings 7:43
  And the ten bases, and ten lavers on the bases;the ten stands; the ten basins on the stands;

2 Kings

• 2 Kings 16:17
  And king Ahaz cut off the borders of the bases, and removed the laver from off them; and took down the sea from off the brasen oxen that were under it, and put it upon a pavement of stones.King Ahaz also cut off the frames of the movable stands and removed the bronze basin from each of them. He took down the Sea from the bronze oxen that were under it and put it on a stone base.
• 2 Kings 25:13
  And the pillars of brass that were in the house of the Lord, and the bases, and the brasen sea that was in the house of the Lord, did the Chaldees break in pieces, and carried the brass of them to Babylon.Moreover, the Chaldeans broke up the bronze pillars and stands and the bronze Sea in the house of the LORD, and they carried the bronze to Babylon.
• 2 Kings 25:16
  The two pillars, one sea, and the bases which Solomon had made for the house of the Lord; the brass of all these vessels was without weight.As for the two pillars, the Sea, and the movable stands that Solomon had made for the house of the LORD, the weight of the bronze from all these articles was beyond measure.

2 Chronicles

• 2 Chronicles 4:14
  He made also bases, and lavers made he upon the bases;the stands; the basins on the stands;

Ezra

• Ezra 3:3
  And they set the altar upon his bases; for fear was upon them because of the people of those countries: and they offered burnt offerings thereon unto the Lord, even burnt offerings morning and evening.They set up the altar on its foundation and sacrificed burnt offerings on it to the LORD—both the morning and evening burnt offerings—even though they feared the people of the land.

Jeremiah

• Jeremiah 27:19
  For thus saith the Lord of hosts concerning the pillars, and concerning the sea, and concerning the bases, and concerning the residue of the vessels that remain in this city,For this is what the LORD of Hosts says about the pillars, the sea, the bases, and the rest of the articles that remain in this city,
• Jeremiah 52:17
  Also the pillars of brass that were in the house of the Lord, and the bases, and the brasen sea that was in the house of the Lord, the Chaldeans brake, and carried all the brass of them to Babylon.Moreover, the Chaldeans broke up the bronze pillars and stands and the bronze Sea in the house of the LORD, and they carried all the bronze to Babylon.
• Jeremiah 52:20
  The two pillars, one sea, and twelve brasen bulls that were under the bases, which king Solomon had made in the house of the Lord: the brass of all these vessels was without weight.As for the two pillars, the Sea, the twelve bronze bulls under it, and the movable stands that King Solomon had made for the house of the LORD, the weight of the bronze from all these articles was beyond measure.

Notes

1. Definition and verse list from STEPBible's tagged Hebrew Old Testament (TAHOT) and Greek New Testament (TAGNT) and Brief Lexicons, STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.
2. English renderings from the public-domain KJV with Strong's numbers (eBible.org) and the Berean Standard Bible interlinear (public domain).