Ezekiel 40:15
in Ezekiel 40And the distance from the entrance of the gateway to the far end of its inner portico was fifty cubits.
BSB
The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
And from the forefront of the gate at the entrance unto the forefront of the inner porch of the gate were fifty cubits.
KJV
And from the face of the gate of the entrance unto the face of the porch of the inner gate were fifty cubits.
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This verse in Ezekiel 40
Commentary
1 note on this verseThis site's exposition
went up the stairs thereof
on Ezekiel 40:6-16
The tour begins at the east gate, threshold, chambers, porch, posts, and arches measured in careful sequence, palm trees carved on every post, the vision's method throughout these chapters: an eyewitness walking a building rather than a plan drawn for a builder to follow. The gate's orientation is not incidental; the glory that left this temple by the way of the east in the earlier vision at 11:23 will return by the same eastern gate at 43:4, and the commentators read the tour's own starting point as already pointing toward that return. The measurements, an hundred cubits of frontage and the smaller cubits of each chamber and post, are carried as the text gives them without forcing a single reconstruction the words themselves do not draw.
How the passage was read
What the Jewish commentators add
On the verses either side of this one
And he made the pillars sixty cubits The height of the pillars of the posts of the hall was sixty cubits.
This section is reception history: how the passage was read and kept in the Jewish tradition. Where a reading parts from an essential of the Christian faith, the section says so at that point.
Texts and citation data: Sefaria; each excerpt follows its version’s licence. 3 further sources are cited on this chapter that carry no English text this site may quote or only restate the verse.
The words behind it
11 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| וְעַ֗ל | veal | and on | H5921 → | 5755 times |
| פְּנֵי֙ | penei | [the] face of | H6440 → | 2123 times |
| הַשַּׁ֣עַר | hashaar | the gate | H8179 → | 374 times |
| הָֽאִית֔וֹן | haiyoton | the entrance | H2978 → | |
| עַל־ | ʾal- | on | H5921 → | 5755 times |
| לִפְנֵ֕י | lifnei | <to> before | H6440 → | 2123 times |
| אֻלָ֥ם | ʾulam | [the] porch of | H197 → | 34 times |
| הַשַּׁ֖עַר | hashaar | the gate | H8179 → | 374 times |
| הַפְּנִימִ֑י | hapenimi | <the> inner | H6442 → | 32 times |
| חֲמִשִּׁ֖ים | chamishim | fifty | H2572 → | 163 times |
| אַמָּֽה׃ | ʾamah | cubit[s] | H520 → | 247 times |
וְעַ֗לand on
vealH5921 →5755 times
פְּנֵי֙[the] face of
peneiH6440 →2123 times
הַשַּׁ֣עַרthe gate
hashaarH8179 →374 times
הָֽאִית֔וֹןthe entrance
haiyotonH2978 →
עַל־on
ʾal-H5921 →5755 times
לִפְנֵ֕י<to> before
lifneiH6440 →2123 times
אֻלָ֥ם[the] porch of
ʾulamH197 →34 times
הַשַּׁ֖עַרthe gate
hashaarH8179 →374 times
הַפְּנִימִ֑י<the> inner
hapenimiH6442 →32 times
חֲמִשִּׁ֖יםfifty
chamishimH2572 →163 times
אַמָּֽה׃cubit[s]
ʾamahH520 →247 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
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About Ezekiel
This page draws on Carl Friedrich Keil, Biblical Commentary on the Prophecies of Ezekiel and Patrick Fairbairn, An Exposition of Ezekiel.