Matthew Poole and continuators on 1 Kings 7:20

20 And the chapiters upon the two pillars, had pomegranates also above, over against the belly ▪ which was by the net-work: and the pomegranates were two hundred , in rows round about upon the other chapiter.

So he calls the middle part of the Chapiter, and that which jetted furthest out.

These Pomegranates are variously accounted in Scriptures. They are said to be ninety and six on a side of a pillar, i. e. in one row, and in all an hundred, Jer. 52. 23. four great Pomegranates between the several Checquer-works being added to the first 96. And it must needs be granted, that there were as many on the other side of the Pillar, or in the other Row, which makes them 200 upon a Pillar, as is here said, and 400 upon both Pillars, as they are numbred, 2 Chron. 4. 13.