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Chapiter
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The ornamental head or capital of a pillar. Three Hebrew words are so rendered.
Chapiter (1)
#Cothereth (1 Kings 7:16; 2 Kings 25:17; 2 Chr. 4:12), meaning a “diadem” or “crown.”
Chapiter (2)
#Tzepheth (2 Chr. 3:15).
Chapiter (3)
#*Rosh* (Ex. 36:38; 38:17, 19, 28), properly a “head” or “top.”
Also from Smith's (1884) +−
the capital of a pillar; i.e. the upper part, as the term is used in modern architecture.
In the Bible
8
Verses where Chapiter is named. Berean Standard Bible (public domain).
- 1 Kings 7:16
He also made two capitals of cast bronze to set on top of the pillars, each capital five cubits high.
- 1 Kings 7:17
For the capitals on top of the pillars he made a network of lattice, with wreaths of chainwork, seven for each capital.
- 1 Kings 7:18
Likewise, he made the pillars with two rows of pomegranates around each grating to cover each capital atop the pillars.
- 1 Kings 7:20
On the capitals of both pillars, just above the rounded projection next to the network, were the two hundred pomegranates in rows encircling each capital.
- 1 Kings 7:31
The opening to each stand inside the crown at the top was one cubit deep, with a round opening like the design of a pedestal, a cubit and a half wide. And around its opening were engravings, but the panels of the stands were square, not round.
- 2 Chronicles 3:15
In front of the temple he made two pillars, which together were thirty-five cubits high, each with a capital on top measuring five cubits.
+2 more verses naming Chapiter.
Scripture on Chapiter
6
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Sources · Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897) · Smith's Bible Dictionary (1884)
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