1 Kings 7:17

and nets of checker work The two nouns are from the same root, and indicate some kind of interlaced metalwork with which the bellying parts of the capitals were overlaid. This, with the chains next mentioned, and the two rows of pomegranates (1 Kings 7:18) formed the ornamentation of the lower portion of the capitals for one cubit of their breadth.

As the conjunction -And" has nothing to represent it in the Hebrew it is better to render, - There were nets &c." The LXX. in this verse begins -And he made two nets &c.… even a net for the one chapiter and a net for the other chapiter." Thus the -seven" of the A.V. disappears and -net" is substituted. There is a good deal of similarity between שׁבעה = seven, and שׂבכה = a net, so that there may have been a confusion, and certainly below in 1 Kings 7:41 mention is made of twonetworks, not seven.