Commentary for I Kings 7:4

There were three rows of windows. He also made another covering near the three rows of boards and the three rows of lintels,³According to Rashi שקפים are lintels. But Radak’s opinion is that שקפים were look-out windows, as in 6:4 above. because the width of fifteen boards did not cover the house in its entire length which was one hundred amohs. And he made near it to cover the house, a covering of small boards placed on small beams which were left (should read “placed”) from one row of [the long] cut beams to the other, three small beams one next to (should read “at the end of”) the other, and lintels on both their sides, similar to a lintel against which the door strikes. And on those lintels the ends of the small boards were placed, the length of the small boards opposite the width of the larger boards which he installed first.

And each window faced the other window. The ends of the boards of this lintel were opposite (the ends of) the boards of this one (lintel).

Window. An expression of “an edge,” and so did Menachem interpret it and he related it to, “to their desired boundary [מחוז],”⁴Tehillim 107:30. and every “חזית” in the language of the Mishnah is thus, [as] in the order of arranging the daily sacrifice,⁵See Mishnayos Tamid 2:4. and also “he should made (a ledge) from the outside,” in the chapter of “The Partners” in [Maseches] Bava Basra.⁶ 2a. [Targum] Yonoson also, rendered this, “a projection opposite a projection,” but “שקופים אטומים”⁷Above 6:4. and likewise, “רבועים שקף,”⁸Below v. 5. he translated them all “beams.”