Exodus 25:31

candlestick Lampstand would be a more accurate rendering; but no doubt -candlestick" (though the expression involves an anachronism) is generally understood here in the same sense.

its base Heb. its thigh(or loins), which seems to include rather more than the -base," viz. the part of the central stem below the lowest pair of branches, as well as the actual base, probably some kind of tripod, into which it must ultimately have expanded.

The Golden Lampstand, as reconstructed by Prof. A. R. S. Kennedy.

From Hastings" Dictionary of the Bible, iv. (1902), p. 663.

shaft lit. reed.

its cups, (namely,) its knops, and its flowers As v.33 shews, the -cup is the whole opened flower, its component parts being the -knop" and the -flower," or, in technical language, the calyx and the corolla, i.e. (roughly) the outer and inner leaves of the entire flower. -Knop" is an old word meaning knob, or bud.

of one piece with it See on v.19.