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Ezekiel 40:19

in Ezekiel 40

Then he measured the distance from the front of the lower gateway to the outside of the inner court; it was a hundred cubits on the east side as well as on the north.

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV

ASV

Then he measured the breadth from the forefront of the lower gate unto the forefront of the inner court without, a hundred cubits, both on the east and on the north.

KJV

Then he measured the breadth from the forefront of the lower gate unto the forefront of the inner court without, an hundred cubits eastward and northward.

This verse in Ezekiel 40

Commentary

2 notes on this verse
Then he measured the breadth from the fore front of the lower gate,.... That is, from the front of the inner eastern gate before mentioned, Eze 40:7, called the lower gate, in respect of the gate opposite to it, which led into the inner court, to which there was an ascent of eight steps; and which the Targum calls the middle gate, because it lay between the eastern outward gate, and the gate of the inward court.

This site's exposition

thirty chambers were upon the pavement

on Ezekiel 40:17-19

The tour moves to the outward court, where a pavement runs the length of the gates and thirty chambers stand upon it, a number the commentators leave as the text gives it without allegorizing. The lower pavement is distinguished from the gates it borders, and the guide then measures the full breadth from the outer gate to the inner court, an hundred cubits eastward and northward, fixing the outer court's scale before the tour turns to its other gates. Fairbairn reads the repeated hundred-cubit measure as the same governing unit that will recur through the whole complex.

The words behind it

13 Hebrew words

Every 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.

  • וַיָּ֣מָדand he measured

    vaiyamodH405851 times

  • רֹ֡חַב[the] breadth

    rochavH7341101 times

  • מִלִּפְנֵי֩from to before

    milifneiH64402123 times

  • הַשַּׁ֨עַרthe gate

    hashaarH8179374 times

  • הַתַּחְתּ֜וֹנָה<the> lower

    hatachtonahH848113 times

  • לִפְנֵ֨יto [the] front of

    lifneiH64402123 times

  • הֶחָצֵ֧רthe courtyard

    hechatzerH2691191 times

  • הַפְּנִימִ֛י<the> inner

    hapenimiH644232 times

  • מִח֖וּץfrom outside

    michutzH2351164 times

  • מֵאָ֣הa hundred

    meahH3967581 times

  • אַמָּ֑הcubit[s]

    ʾamahH520247 times

  • הַקָּדִ֖יםthe east

    hakadimH692169 times

  • וְהַצָּפֽוֹן׃and the north

    vehatzafonH6828153 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

The walk

7 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    Ezekiel 40:27

    The inner court also had a gate facing south, and he measured the distance from gateway to gateway toward the south to be a hundred cubits.

    it leads to

    • Ezekiel 40:23

      There was a gate to the inner court facing the north gate, just as there was on the east. He measured the distance from gateway to gateway to be a hundred cubits.

    • Ezekiel 40:32

      And he brought me to the inner court on the east side, and he measured the gateway; it had the same measurements as the others.

    • Ezekiel 40:47

      Next he measured the court. It was square, a hundred cubits long and a hundred cubits wide. And the altar was in front of the temple.

  • Through

    Ezekiel 40:23

    There was a gate to the inner court facing the north gate, just as there was on the east. He measured the distance from gateway to gateway to be a hundred cubits.

    it leads to

    • Ezekiel 40:27–28

      The inner court also had a gate facing south, and he measured the distance from gateway to gateway toward the south to be a hundred cubits.

    • Exodus 27:9–18

      You are also to make a courtyard for the tabernacle. On the south side of the courtyard make curtains of finely spun linen, a hundred cubits long on one side,

    • Exodus 38:9–12

      Then he constructed the courtyard. The south side of the courtyard was a hundred cubits long and had curtains of finely spun linen,

    • Ezekiel 40:44

      Outside the inner gate, within the inner court, were two chambers, one beside the north gate and facing south, and another beside the south gate and facing north.

Where this verse is studied

About Ezekiel

The Prophet Ezekiel — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
The Prophet Ezekiel — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain

This page draws on John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament and Patrick Fairbairn, An Exposition of Ezekiel.