. A comprehensive dictionary of the Bible . of two Hebrew terms,of which Mr. Grove thinks that all we can say withcertainty is that they refer to some architecturalor ornamental object, and have nothing in Heb. caphlor (= crown, chaplet, circlet, Ges.; anornamental crown, Fii.) occurs in the description ofthe candlestick of the sacred tent in Ex. xxv. 31-36, and xxxvii. 17-22. Here the knop and theflower seem intended to imitate the produce of analmond-tree. In another part of the work theyappear to form a boss, from which the branches areto spring out from the main stem. (Lintel 2.)
. A comprehensive dictionary of the Bible . of two Hebrew terms,of which Mr. Grove thinks that all we can say withcertainty is that they refer to some architecturalor ornamental object, and have nothing in Heb. caphlor (= crown, chaplet, circlet, Ges.; anornamental crown, Fii.) occurs in the description ofthe candlestick of the sacred tent in Ex. xxv. 31-36, and xxxvii. 17-22. Here the knop and theflower seem intended to imitate the produce of analmond-tree. In another part of the work theyappear to form a boss, from which the branches areto spring out from the main stem. (Lintel 2.) pi. pekdim (— wild cucumbers, Ges., Fii.),found only in 1 K. vi. 18 and vii. 24, no doubt sig- I 526 KOA KOZ nifies soms globular thing resembling a small gourd,or an egg, though as to the character of the orna-ment we are quite in the dark. The following wood-cut of a portion of a richly ornamented door-stepor slab from Kouyunjik (Nineveh) probably rep-resents something approximating to the knop andthe flower of Solomons Border of a Slab from Kouyunjik.—(Ferguesons Architecture.) Koa (Heb.), in Ez. xxiii. 23 only, perhaps =: aplace otherwise unknown, which we must supposeto have been a city or district of Babylonia. Or itmay be a common noun = prince or riobleman, asthe Vulgate takes it, with Gesenius, and some ofthe Jewish interpreters. Kohath (Heb. assembly), second of Levis threeeons, from whom the three principal divisions ofthe Levitks derived their origin and their name(Gen. xlvi. 11; Ez. vi. 16, 18; Num. iii. 17 ff.; 2Chr. xxxiv. 12, &c). Kohath was the father ofAmram, and he of Moses and Aaron. From him,therefore, were descended all the priests (Priest) ;and hence those of the Kohathites who were notpriests were of the highest rank of the Levites,though not the sons of Levis first-born. In thejourneyings of the Tabernacle the sons of Kohathhad charge of the most holy portion of the vessels(Num. iv.). These were all previously covered bythe priests,
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