Pedestal
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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
1. (n.) The base or foot of a column, statue, vase, lamp, or the like; the part on which an upright work stands. It consists of three parts, the base, the die or dado, and the cornice or surface molding.

2. (n.) A casting secured to the frame of a truck and forming a jaw for holding a journal box.

3. (n.) A pillow block; a low housing.

4. (n.) An iron socket, or support, for the foot of a brace at the end of a truss where it rests on a pier.

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
PEDESTAL

ped'-es-tal (ken): In two places (1 Kings 7:29, 31) the Revised Version (British and American) gives this word for the King James Version "base" (in Solomon's "Sea").

Strong's Hebrew
3653b. ken -- a base, pedestal, office
... 3653a, 3653b. ken. 3654 . a base, pedestal, office. Transliteration:
ken Short Definition: stand. Word Origin from an unused word ...
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134. eden -- a base, pedestal
... 133, 134. eden. 135 . a base, pedestal. Transliteration: eden Phonetic
Spelling: (eh'-den) Short Definition: sockets. Word Origin ...
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4350. mekonah -- a fixed resting place, base
... Word Origin fem. of makon Definition a fixed resting place, base NASB Word Usage
foundation (1), pedestal (1), stand (7), stands (15). base. ...
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3653. ken -- right, veritable, honest
... base, estate, foot, office, place, well The same as ken, used as a noun; a stand,
ie Pedestal or station -- base, estate, foot, office, place, well. ...
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Library

The Statue which the Woman with an Issue of Blood Erected.
... This is commonly translated "at his feet, upon the pedestal"; but, as Heinichen
remarks, in the excursus referred to just above, the plant can hardly have ...
/.../pamphilius/church history/chapter xviii the statue which the.htm

The Gods of Egypt
... The pedestal was yet in rough block. Rachel inspected it, wondering. ... Let me make
haste to carve the pedestal that I may know how low to do obeisance to wisdom. ...
//christianbookshelf.org/miller/the yoke/chapter xv the gods of.htm

That Evening Vergilius Went to Feast with the Young Herodian ...
... They could see her reeling, and suddenly she fell headlong to the rug beneath
her pedestal. Antipater rose quickly with angry eyes. ...
/.../christianbookshelf.org/bacheller/vergilius/chapter 4 that evening vergilius.htm

Index.
... Agrippa, M., 79, 82, 99; edifices due to, 176. Agrippina, fate of her pedestal once
in the ustrinum, 183, 184 (cut); her death, 183. Aius Locutius, 72. ...
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Sermon.
... But whoever he may have been he was certainly an admirer of David. That illustrious
king stood on a pedestal of his own before all the nation. ...
//christianbookshelf.org/wright/is the young man absalom safe/sermon.htm

The Dawn of Mind
... of phenomena, Matter, Life, Mind, each higher than that before it, each totally
and forever different, yet each using that beneath it as the pedestal for its ...
/.../drummond/the lowell lectures on the ascent of man/chapter iv the dawn of.htm

Kate Lee's Secret
... day that Simon the sorcerer offered Peter money in exchange for miracle-working
power, the exercise of which would have placed him upon a pedestal above his ...
/.../carpenter/the angel adjutant of twice born men/xiii kate lees secret.htm

Our Reception at Hwochow
... The fact that you have come several thousands of miles in order to preach the Gospel,
is not sufficient to place you unquestionably on a pedestal. ...
/.../cable/the fulfilment of a dream of pastor hsis/chapter vi our reception at.htm

Seventeenth Day. Humility.
... bending over us. His example may well speak in silent impressiveness,
bringing us down from our pedestal of pride. There surely ...
//christianbookshelf.org/macduff/the mind of jesus/seventeenth day humility.htm

Tee Advice of Hotep
... In the half-night of the vast interior, at the foot of the sumptuous pedestal
of Athor, he distinguished another supplicant, kneeling. ...
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Thesaurus
Pedestal (4 Occurrences)
... a pier. Int. Standard Bible Encyclopedia. PEDESTAL. ped'-es ... Solomon's "Sea").
Multi-Version Concordance Pedestal (4 Occurrences). 1 Kings ...
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Panels (10 Occurrences)
... 1 Kings 7:29 and on the panels that were between the ledges were lions, oxen, and
cherubim; and on the ledges there was a pedestal above; and beneath the lions ...
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Candlestick (34 Occurrences)
... It consisted of a pedestal or base, of a central stem (the name "candlestick" is
specially given to this), of six curving branches-three on each side-and of ...
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Uprights (20 Occurrences)
... 1 Kings 7:29 and on the panels that were between the ledges were lions, oxen, and
cherubim; and on the ledges there was a pedestal above; and beneath the lions ...
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Urn (1 Occurrence)
... 1. (n.) A vessel of various forms, usually a vase furnished with a foot or pedestal,
employed for different purposes, as for holding liquids, for ornamental ...
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Undersetter
... Noah Webster's Dictionary (n.) One who, or that which, undersets or supports; a
prop; a support; a pedestal. Int. Standard Bible Encyclopedia. UNDERSETTER. ...
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Office (64 Occurrences)
... But the word is also used as a rendering of different Hebrew words, eg ken, "pedestal,"
"place" (Genesis 40:13, the King James Version "place"; Genesis 41:13 ...
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Jaw (6 Occurrences)
... 5. (n.) A notch or opening. 6. (n.) A notched or forked part, adapted for holding
an object in place; as, the jaw of a railway-car pedestal. See Axle guard. ...
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Lions (50 Occurrences)
... 1 Kings 7:29 and on the panels that were between the ledges were lions, oxen, and
cherubim; and on the ledges there was a pedestal above; and beneath the lions ...
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Ledges (7 Occurrences)
... 1 Kings 7:29 and on the panels that were between the ledges were lions, oxen, and
cherubim; and on the ledges there was a pedestal above; and beneath the lions ...
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Bible Concordance
Pedestal (4 Occurrences)

1 Kings 7:29 and on the panels that were between the ledges were lions, oxen, and cherubim; and on the ledges there was a pedestal above; and beneath the lions and oxen were wreaths of hanging work.
(WEB ASV NAS)

1 Kings 7:31 The mouth of it within the capital and above was a cubit: and its mouth was round after the work of a pedestal, a cubit and a half; and also on its mouth were engravings, and their panels were foursquare, not round.
(WEB JPS ASV NAS RSV)

Amos 5:26 You also carried the tent of your king and the shrine of your images, the star of your god, which you made for yourselves.
(See NIV)

Zechariah 5:11 He said to me, "To build her a house in the land of Shinar. When it is prepared, she will be set there in her own place."
(See NAS)

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Lions (50 Occurrences)

Ledges (7 Occurrences)

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Circular (5 Occurrences)

Capital (29 Occurrences)

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Base (127 Occurrences)

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Below (52 Occurrences)

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Beneath (73 Occurrences)

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Upward (74 Occurrences)

Stands (111 Occurrences)

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