Commentary for I Kings 6:18
וְאֶ֤רֶז אֶל־הַבַּ֙יִת֙ פְּנִ֔ימָה מִקְלַ֣עַת פְּקָעִ֔ים וּפְטוּרֵ֖י צִצִּ֑ים הַכֹּ֣ל אֶ֔רֶז אֵ֥ין אֶ֖בֶן נִרְאָֽה׃
And the cedar on the house within was carved with knops and open flowers; all was cedar; there was no stone seen.
Rashi on I Kings
The cedar of the inside of the Beis Hamikdosh was carved with designs. This means, that those cedar boards which he made for the inside of the building to cover the stone walls, were carved with figured carvings and forms of fragments resembling knobs; פקעים are imosjjls, in O.F.
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Rashi on I Kings
Of buds and blossoming flowers. [Targum] Yonoson rendered, “and cords and flowers,” in the form of chains.
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Rashi on I Kings
Buds. [פטורי is] an expression of cords in the language of the Talmud, as in, “as the rope through the loophole.”26Maseches Berachos 8a.
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