Strong's #6497: peqa` (pronounced peh'-kah)

from an unused root meaning to burst; only used as an architectural term of an ornament similar to 6498, a semi-globe:--knop.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

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peqa‛

1) knob-shaped or ball-shaped or gourd-shaped carved wood or metal ornament

Part of Speech: noun masculine

Relation: from an unused root meaning to burst

Usage:

This word is used 3 times:

 

1 Kings 6:18: "the house within was carved with knops and open flowers: all was cedar;"
1 Kings 7:24: "And under the brim of it round about there were knops compassing it, ten in a cubit,"
1 Kings 7:24: "compassing the sea round about: the knops were cast in two rows,"