1 Kings 6 · Verse 4

1 Kings 6:4

And for the house he made windows of narrow lights.
1 Kings 6:4, King James Version

1 Kings 6:4 in other translations

BSBHe also had narrow windows framed high in the temple.
WEBHe made windows of fixed lattice work for the house.
ASVAnd for the house he made windows of fixed lattice-work.
YLTand he maketh for the house windows of narrow lights.
DARBYAnd for the house he made closed windows with fixed lattices.
BBEAnd for the house he made windows, with network across.
WebsterAnd for the house he made windows of narrow lights.

What does 1 Kings 6:4 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
4. windows of narrow lights--that is, windows with lattices, capable of being shut and opened at pleasure, partly to let out the vapor of the lamps, the smoke of the frankincense, and partly to give light [Keil]. 1Ki 6:5-10. The Chambers Thereof.

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 4 Windows of narrow lights - The Vulgate says, fenestras obliquas, oblique windows; but what sort of windows could such be? The Hebrew is חלוני שקפים אטמים challoney shekuphim atumim, windows to look through, which shut. Probably latticed windows: windows through which a person within could see well; but a person without, nothing. Windows, says the Targum, which were open within and shut without. Does he mean windows with shutters; or, are we to understand, with the Arabic, windows opening wide within, and narrow on the outside; such as we still see in ancient castles? This sense our margin expresses. We hear nothing of glass or any other diaphanous substance. Windows, perhaps originally windore, a door to let the wind in, in order to ventilate the building, and through which external objects might be discerned.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on 1 Kings 6:1-10

The temple is called the house of the Lord, because it was directed and modelled by him, and was to be employed in his service. This gave it the beauty of holiness, that it was the house of the Lord, which was far beyond all other beauties. It was to be the temple of the God of peace, therefore no iron tool must be heard; quietness and silence suit and help religious exercises. God's work should be done with much…

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1 Kings 6:4 in the original Hebrew

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וַיַּ֣עַשׂvai.Ya.'asand he madeH6213
לַבָּ֔יִתla.Ba.yitfor the houseH1004
חַלּוֹנֵ֖יcha.lo.Neiwindows ofH2474
שְׁקֻפִ֥יםshe.ku.FimframesH8261
אֲטֻמִֽים\׃'a.tu.MimshutH331

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for 1 Kings 6:4

  • Ezekiel 40:16

    And there were narrow windows to the little chambers, and to their posts within the gate round about, and likewise to the arches: and windows were round about inward: and upon each post were palm trees.

  • Ezekiel 41:16

    The door posts, and the narrow windows, and the galleries round about on their three stories, over against the door, cieled with wood round about, and from the ground up to the windows, and the windows were covered;

  • Ezekiel 41:26

    And there were narrow windows and palm trees on the one side and on the other side, on the sides of the porch, and upon the side chambers of the house, and thick planks.

  • Song of Solomon 2:9

    My beloved is like a roe or a young hart: behold, he standeth behind our wall, he looketh forth at the windows, shewing himself through the lattice.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
windows of narrow lights. or, windows broad within, andnarrow without; or, skewed and closed.
4; So 2:9; Eze 40:16; 41:26

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Context

  • 1 Kings 6:3

    And the porch before the temple of the house, twenty cubits was the length thereof, according to the breadth of the house; and ten cubits was the breadth thereof before the house.

  • 1 Kings 6:4

    And for the house he made windows of narrow lights.

  • 1 Kings 6:5

    And against the wall of the house he built chambers round about, against the walls of the house round about, both of the temple and of the oracle: and he made chambers round about:

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1 Kings 6:4 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909		E hizo á la casa ventanas anchas por de dentro, y estrechas por de fuera.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885		Et il fit à la maison des fenêtres fermées à linteaux saillants.
German
Elberfelder 1871		Und er machte dem Hause Fenster, die mit unbeweglichen Querstäben vergittert waren.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate		Fecitque in templo fenestras obliquas.