Exodus 25:33

“Three bowls made like unto almonds, with a knop and a flower in one branch, etc.] There were three bowls or cups in the form of almond nuts to each branch, which were either to hold oil for the lamps, as before observed, or, as others think, to catch the snuff which fell from them; and there were a “knop”, which, according to the signification of the word, was in the form of a pomegranate, and a flower, which the Targum of Jonathan renders a lily; and they are both in Scripture emblems of the saints endowed with the gifts and graces of the Spirit: and three bowls made like almonds in the other branch; on the other side of the candlestick, opposite to the former: so in the six branches that…”

“knops--old spelling for "knobs"--bosses.”

“Exodus 25:31 A candlestick of pure gold - (Compare Exodus 37:17-24.) A lampstand rather than a candlestick. Its purpose was to support seven oil-lamps. Its height appears to have been about three feet, and its width two feet. The original foot was lost or stolen when the candlestick was taken out of the temple, and the pedestal in the sculpture was added by some Roman artist to set off the trophy. His shaft, and his branches, his bowls, his knops, and his flowers - Or, its base, its stem, its flower cups, its knobs, and its lilies. Exodus 25:33 Three bowls made like unto almonds - Three cups of almond flowers. These appear to be the cups in immediate contact with the knobs as shown in the…”

“like unto: Num 17:4-8; Jer 1:11, Jer 1:12 and three: Exo 37:19, Exo 37:20; Zac 4:3 Exodus 25:36”