knop /ˈnɑp/
圓形手把,蕾形裝飾,頂華
Knop n.
1. A knob; a bud; a bunch; a button.
Four bowls made like unto almonds, with their knops and their flowers. --Ex. xxv. 21.
2. Arch. Any boldly projecting sculptured ornament; esp., the ornamental termination of a pinnacle, and then synonymous with finial; -- called also knob, and knosp.
Knop sedge Bot., the bur reed (Sparganium); -- so called from its globular clusters of seed vessels.
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Knop
some architectural ornament. (1.) Heb. kaphtor (Ex. 25:31-36),
occurring in the description of the candlestick. It was an
ornamental swell beneath the cups of the candlestick, probably
an imitation of the fruit of the almond.
(2.) Heb. peka'im, found only in 1 Kings 6:18 and 7:24, an
ornament resembling a small gourd or an egg, on the cedar
wainscot in the temple and on the castings on the brim of the
brazen sea.