1 Kings 7:27

And he made ten bases [or stands, מְכוֹנוֹת , from כוּן , erectus stetit. The description of both the bases and the layers which they supported ( 1 Kings 7:27-39 ) is extremely obscure. We know, however, that the bases (as the name implies) were simply stands or pediments for the lavers] of brass; four cubits was the length of one base and four cubits the breadth thereof; and three cubits the height of it [they were rectangular, or box shaped, six feet square and four and a half feet high.