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There are several reasons we can't use the measurements in 1 Kings 7:23 to calculate pi: The other answers are on the right track regarding rounding. At the time the Tanakh was written, the decimal point had not been invented.
18 Μαΐ 2008 · 🔽 Theory versus practice. 🔽 1 Kings 7:23 and the realness of Number Theory. 🔽 Stairway to heaven. An unusual commentary on 1 Kings 7:23—The problem of the number Pi in the Bible.
18 Μαΐ 2008 · 1 Kings 7:23 — The number Pi in the Bible — Here at Abarim Publications we rarely get nervous, but the pi-challenge presented in 1 Kings 7:23 is formidable, and required more volume of coffee per volume of Twila Paris than any other challenge we were tempted to meet so far. Let's have a look at:
1 Kings 7:23. He made a molten sea — He melted the brass, and cast it into the form of a great vessel, for its vastness called a sea, which name is given by the Hebrews to all great collections of waters. The use of it was for the priests to wash their hands and feet, or other things, as occasion required, with the water which they drew out ...
Based upon traditional religious practices of rounding numbers to the nearest whole integer and the description in 1 Kings 7:23, π would be shown as 3. Therefore our attempts to calculate the volume of the sea would be based upon a rounded integer, and could only render estimates.
5 Μαρ 2024 · The disparagers of Solomon’s pi who claim the Bible says pi = 3 omit half the evidence. The rest of the parallel passages they cite from 1 Kings 7:23 and 2 Chronicles 4:2 shows their dogma is based on a hit-and-run calculation of a type that would make any undergraduates flunk their exam.
What does 1 Kings 7:23 mean? Read commentary on this popular Bible verse and understand the real meaning behind God's Word using John Gill's Exposition of the Bible.
