Base

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BASE.—To be base is in mod. English to be morally bad, but in AV [Note: Authorized Version.] it is no more than to be of humble birth or lowly position. In the RV [Note: Revised Version.] , however, the word is sometimes used in the sense of morally low, mean, as Deu_13:13.
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible
Edited by James Hastings, D.D. Published in 1909

bās:
(1) Substantive from Latin basis, Greek βάσις, básis, a foundation. (a) (מכונה, mekhōnāh): the fixed resting-place on which the lavers in Solomon's temple were set (1 Ki 7:27-43; 2Ki_16:17; 2Ki_25:13, 2Ki_25:16; 2Ch_4:14; Jer_27:19; Jer_52:17, Jer_52:20; compare Ezr_3:3; Zec_5:11 the American Revised Version, margin). (b) (כּן, kēn): pedestal in the King James Version and the Revised Version (British and American) (1Ki_7:29, 1Ki_7:31) and in the Revised Version (British and American) only (Exo_30:18, Exo_30:28; Exo_31:9; Exo_35:16; Exo_38:8; Exo_39:39; Exo_40:11; Lev_8:11) of the base of the laver of the tabernacle (the King James Version ?foot?). (c) (ירך, yārēkh): ?base of candlestick? (the Revised Version (British and American) of Exo_25:31; Exo_37:17) the King James Version ?shaft.? (d) (יסוד, yeṣōdh): the Revised Version (British and American) ?base of altar?; the King James Version ?bottom? (Exo_29:12; Exo_38:8; Lev_4:7, Lev_4:18, Lev_4:25, Lev_4:30, Lev_4:34; Lev_5:9; Lev_8:15; Lev_9:9). (e) (גּב, gabh): the Revised Version (British and American) ?elevation,? i.e. basement of altar; the King James Version ?higher place? (Eze_43:13).
(2) Adjective from French bas - low, or Welsh b?s - ?shallow?: of lowly birth or station, of voluntary humility and of moral depravity. (a) (שׁפל, shāphāl, שפל, shephal): of David's self-humiliation (2Sa_6:22): ?a modest unambitious kingdom? (Eze_17:14; Eze_29:14, Eze_29:15 (BDB); Dan_4:17 (the American Standard Revised Version ?lowest?)): compare shephēlāh = ?lowland.? (b) (קלה, ḳālāh): men of humble birth and station as opposed to the nobles (Isa_3:5). (c) (בּלי־שׁם, belı̄-shēm): ?nameless,? ?of no account?: ?children of fools, yea, children of base men? (Job_30:8). (d) The King James Version men, sons, daughters, children of Belial; literally ?worthless persons?; in the American Standard Revised Version ?base,? except 1Sa_1:16 ?wicked woman?; also the English Revised Version of Deu_13:13, ?base,? which elsewhere retains the King James Version rendering. (e) (ταπεινός, tapeinós): ?lowly,? ?humble or abject? (2Co_10:1); the Revised Version (British and American), ?lowly?; so Paul's enemies said he appeared when present in the church at Corinth. (f) (ἀγενής, agenḗs): ?of low birth,? ?of no account? (1Co_1:28): ?base things of the world.? (g) (ἀγοραῖος, agoraı́os): ?belonging to the market-place,? loafers, worthless characters (Act_17:5): ?certain lewd fellows of the baser sort?; the Revised Version (British and American) ?certain vile fellows of the rabble.?
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
PRINTER 1915.

Base
(as a noun) is the rendering in the Auth. Vers. of two Hebrews words:
1. כֵּן, ken, the foundation or pedestal, e.g. of the laver (q.v.) in the temple- court (“foot,” Exo_30:18, etc.); then, the “base over the ledges” (שְׁלִבַּם, joints) of the brazen sea (q.v.), in 1Ki_7:29, apparently explained in 1Ki_7:31 as a “work' of the base” (מִעֲשֵׂהאּכֵן), perhaps a pediment-like cornice covering the joints; but the whole description is exceedingly obscure. SEE LEDGE.
2. מְכוֹנָהmekonah', or מְכוּנָה, mekunah', a foot-piece or stand upon which to place the lavers in the temple-service (1Ki_7:27-43, etc.). SEE LAVER.



CYCLOPEDIA OF BIBLICAL, THEOLOGICAL AND ECCLESIASTICAL
press 1895.

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