Dict: smith - KNOP

smith:

KNOP - K>@ - a word employed in the Authorized Version to translate two terms which refer to some architectural or ornamental object, but which have nothing in common. Caphtor .
This occurs in the description of the candlestick of the sacred tent in kjv@Exodus:25:31-36) and Exod 37:17-22 The second term, Peka’im , is found only in (Kings:6:18) and 1Kin 7:24 The word no doubt signifies some globular thing resembling a small gourd or an egg, though as to the character of the ornament we are quite in the dark.