Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Exodus 25:33
Three bowls made like unto almonds, [with] a knop and a flower in one branch; and three bowls made like almonds in the other branch, [with] a knop and a flower: so in the six branches that come out of the candlestick.
33. There were three of these cups, shaped like almond-flowers, in each of the six branches.
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
33. knopsold spelling for”knobs”bosses.
Fuente: Jamieson, Fausset and Brown’s Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
Three bowls made like unto almonds, with a knop and a flower in one branch,…. There were three bowls or cups in the form of almond nuts to each branch, which were either to hold oil for the lamps, as before observed, or, as others think, to catch the snuff which fell from them; and there were a “knop”, which, according to the signification of the word, was in the form of a pomegranate, and a flower, which the Targum of Jonathan renders a lily; and they are both in Scripture emblems of the saints endowed with the gifts and graces of the Spirit:
and three bowls made like almonds in the other branch; on the other side of the candlestick, opposite to the former:
so in the six branches that come out of the candlestick; there were the same number of bowls, with a knop and a flower in the rest of the branches, as in those mentioned.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
(33) Three bowls made like unto almonds.Or, three cups like almond blossoms. It is not quite clear if these were consecutive, or if each cup held a knop (pomegranate), on which followed a (lily) blossom. On the whole Relands representation accords best with the latter view.
In the other branch.Rather, in another branch. The ornamentation was the same in the first, the second, and all the other branches; but in the longer branches the triple series was probably repeated of tener.
Fuente: Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)
33. Three bowls Returning now to a further description of the ornamental bowls or cups ( ) mentioned in Exo 25:31, the writer describes them as made like unto almonds, probably meaning like almond blossoms. Also a knop and a flower were to be wrought into each of the six branches that come out of the candlestick. In this verse, and in the two following, the word candlestick is to be understood more particularly of the main shaft or stem of the lampstand, a part being named for the whole.
Fuente: Whedon’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments
Exo 25:33 Three bowls made like unto almonds, [with] a knop and a flower in one branch; and three bowls made like almonds in the other branch, [with] a knop and a flower: so in the six branches that come out of the candlestick.
Ver. 33. Three bowls made like unto almonds, &c. ] Signifying the several endowments and ornaments of Christ’s faithful ministers.
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
Three. Note connection with four, Exo 25:34, making seven. See App-10.
Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics
like unto: Num 17:4-8, Jer 1:11, Jer 1:12
and three: Exo 37:19, Exo 37:20, Zec 4:3