1 Kings 7:20

20 As for the capitals on the two columns, there were 200 pomegranates in rows around each capital near the molding by the netting.

1 Kings 7:20 Meaning and Commentary

1 Kings 7:20

And the chapiters upon the two pillars had pomegranates also
above, over against the belly which was by the network
The supplement is needless, according to Dr. Lightfoot; the sense being only, that the chapiters were above the lily work, which wrought out as far as the belly of the chapiters, or the middle cubit of them, which the pomegranates filled up:

and the pomegranates were two hundred, in rows round about upon
the other chapiter:
there were so many in each, which in all made four hundred, as in ( 1 Kings 7:42 ) . In ( Jeremiah 52:23 ) , it is said there were ninety six on a side, and yet one hundred round about; the meaning of which is, either that there were twenty four to every wind, as the word there is, and four on the four angles, and so in all one hundred; or, as the above learned writer, when the pillars were set to the wall, only ninety six appeared in sight in a row, the other four being hid behind them.

1 Kings 7:20 In-Context

18 When he made the columns, he made two rows of pomegranates to put at the top of each column around the netting covering its capital.

19 The capitals on the columns in the hall had shapes like lilies and were seven feet high.

20 As for the capitals on the two columns, there were 200 pomegranates in rows around each capital near the molding by the netting.

21 He erected the columns in the hall of the temple; on erecting the right column he gave it the name "Yakhin," and on erecting the left column he named it "Bo'az."

22 On the tops of the columns were shapes like lilies; thus the work of the columns was finished.