King James Bible
King James Version (KJV)
STRONGS NUMBER H6497
Transliteration: peqaim
Phonetic Spelling: (peh'-kah)
Part of Speech: Noun Masculine
Short Definition: gourd (shaped) ornaments
Meaning: gourd (shaped) ornaments
Word Summary
peqaim: gourd (shaped) ornaments
Original Word: פֶקַעTransliteration: peqaim
Phonetic Spelling: (peh'-kah)
Part of Speech: Noun Masculine
Short Definition: gourd (shaped) ornaments
Meaning: gourd (shaped) ornaments
Strong's Concordance
a semi-globeFrom an unused root meaning to burst; only used as an architectural term of an ornament similar to paqqu'ah, a semi-globe -- knop.
see HEBREW paqqu'ah
Brown-Driver-Briggs
H6497. peqaim
מְּקָעִים noun masculine1 Kings 7:24
plural carved wood or metal ornaments, either ball-, knob-shaped (Löwp. 332 f.) of gourd-shaped (so most; compare following; Syriac flowers [Lexicons]); — 1 Kings 6:18; 7:24 (twice in verse).