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1 Kings 6:8

The entrance to the bottom floor was on the south side of the temple. A stairway led up to the middle level, and from there to the third floor.

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ASV

The door for the middle side-chambers was in the right side of the house: and they went up by winding stairs into the middle story, and out of the middle into the third.

KJV

The door for the middle chamber was in the right side of the house: and they went up with winding stairs into the middle chamber, and out of the middle into the third.

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15 tagged words
OriginalTransliterationMeaningWord study
פֶּ֗תַחPe.tach[the] entrance ofH6607 →
הַצֵּלָע֙ha.tze.La'the side-chamberH6763 →
הַתִּ֣יכֹנָ֔הha.Ti.kho.Nah<the> middleH8484 →
אֶל־'el-[was] toH413 →
כֶּ֥תֶףKe.tef[the] side ofH3802 →
הַבַּ֖יִתha.Ba.yitthe houseH1004 →
הַיְמָנִ֑יתhay.ma.Nit<the> southH3233 →
וּבְלוּלִּ֗יםu.ve.lu.Limand by stairsH3883 →
יַֽעֲלוּ֙ya.'a.Lupeople went upH5927 →
עַל־'al-toH5921 →
הַתִּ֣יכֹנָ֔הha.Ti.kho.Nahthe middleH8484 →
וּמִן־u.min-and fromH4480 →
הַתִּֽיכֹנָ֖הha.ti.kho.Nahthe middleH8484 →
אֶל־'el-toH413 →
הַשְּׁלִשִֽׁים׃ha.she.li.Shimthe thirtyH7992 →

The walk

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Ezekiel 41:7The side rooms surrounding the temple widened at each successive level, because the structure surrounding the temple ascended by stages corresponding to the narrowing of the temple wall as it rose upward. And so a stairway went up from the lowest story to the highest, through the middle one.Ezekiel 41:6–7The side rooms were arranged one above another in three levels of thirty rooms each. There were ledges all around the wall of the temple to serve as supports for the side rooms, so that the supports would not be fastened into the wall of the temple itself.Ezekiel 40:6Then he came to the gate facing east and climbed its steps. He measured the threshold of the gate to be one rod deep.2 Kings 11:2But Jehosheba daughter of King Joram, the sister of Ahaziah, took Joash son of Ahaziah and stole him away from among the sons of the king who were being murdered. She put him and his nurse in a bedroom to hide him from Athaliah, and he was not killed.Ezekiel 40:38There was a chamber with a doorway by the portico in each of the inner gateways. There the burnt offering was to be washed.Ezekiel 42:6For they were arranged in three stories, and unlike the courts, they had no pillars. So the upper chambers were set back further than the lower and middle floors.Ezekiel 43:17The ledge shall also be square, fourteen cubits long and fourteen cubits wide, with a rim of half a cubit and a gutter of a cubit all around it. The steps of the altar shall face east.”

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