Ezekiel 40:30
in Ezekiel 40(The porticoes around the inner court were twenty-five cubits long and five cubits deep.)
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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
And there were arches round about, five and twenty cubits long, and five cubits broad.
KJV
And the arches round about were five and twenty cubits long, and five cubits broad.
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This verse in Ezekiel 40
Commentary
7 notes on this verseAnd the arches round about were five and twenty cubits long - That the five cubits broad should be read twenty-five is evident from Eze 40:21, Eze 40:25, Eze 40:29, Eze 40:33, and Eze 40:36, The word ועשרים veesrim, twenty, has probably been lost out of the text. Indeed the whole verse is wanting in two of Kennicott’s MSS., one of De Rossi’s, and one of mine, (Cod. B.) It has been added in the margin of mine by a later hand. It is reported to have been anciently wanting in many MSS.
This site's exposition
the inner court by the south gate
on Ezekiel 40:28-31
The inner court's south gate is measured to the familiar pattern, fifty cubits by twenty-five, but the detail that changes here matters: the going up to it had eight steps, one more than the seven steps of every outer gate already measured. The commentators read the added step as the architecture itself teaching ascent, the ground rising as the tour moves from the outer court toward the center, holiness measured in elevation the way the vision measures everything else, in cubits and reeds. The arches of this gate face toward the outer court, the same orientation every inner gate in the vision keeps toward the court it leads out from.
The record, by era
The Church Fathers1 voice
(Verse 24 and following) 'And he led me to the south gate, and behold, there was a gate that faced south. And its frontispiece and vestibule were measured according to the upper measurements, and its windows and vestibules all around were like the other windows. It had a length of fifty cubits, and a width of twenty-five cubits, and it was ascended by seven steps, and there was a vestibule in front of its doors, and palm trees were carved on it, one on one side, and the other on the other side in front of it.'
The Medieval Church1 voice
A commentator
Gregory the DialogistHomilies on Ezekiel, Book 2, Homily 8 · Written before 604.
proposed
"Twenty-five cubits in length, and five cubits in width, and its vestibule toward the outer court." The interior gates have vestibules that are measured as twenty-five cubits in length. For if we multiply eight by three, we arrive at twenty-four. To this one is added, so that we have twenty-five. For good hearers, who are like certain vestibules of the gates, hold the longsuffering of eternal hope; they await the eighth day in faith in the Trinity. Because this Trinity is one God, they indeed multiply eight by three, but they are made firm in the confession of one God.
The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice
And the arches round about were five and twenty cubits long,....
The Nineteenth Century2 voices
A commentator
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown1802–1910
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)
This verse is omitted in the Septuagint, the Vatican manuscript, and others. The dimensions here of the inner gate do not correspond to the outer, though Eze 40:28 asserts that they do.
A commentator
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown1802–1910
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)
proposed
The inner court and its gates. according to these measures--namely, the measures of the outer gate. The figure and proportions of the inner answered to the outer.
The words behind it
10 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| וְאֵֽלַמּ֖וֹת | veelamot | and porches | H361 → | 15 times |
| סָבִ֣יב׀ | saviv | [were] all around | H5439 → | 336 times |
| סָבִ֑יב | saviv | all around | H5439 → | 336 times |
| אֹ֗רֶךְ | ʾorekh | [the] length | H753 → | 95 times |
| חָמֵ֤שׁ | chamesh | [was] five | H2568 → | 343 times |
| וְעֶשְׂרִים֙ | veesrim | and twenty | H6242 → | 315 times |
| אַמָּ֔ה | ʾamah | cubit[s] | H520 → | 247 times |
| וְרֹ֖חַב | verochav | and [the] breadth | H7341 → | 101 times |
| חָמֵ֥שׁ | chamesh | [was] five | H2568 → | 343 times |
| אַמּֽוֹת׃ | ʾamot | cubits | H520 → | 247 times |
וְאֵֽלַמּ֖וֹתand porches
veelamotH361 →15 times
סָבִ֣יב׀[were] all around
savivH5439 →336 times
סָבִ֑יבall around
savivH5439 →336 times
אֹ֗רֶךְ[the] length
ʾorekhH753 →95 times
חָמֵ֤שׁ[was] five
chameshH2568 →343 times
וְעֶשְׂרִים֙and twenty
veesrimH6242 →315 times
אַמָּ֔הcubit[s]
ʾamahH520 →247 times
וְרֹ֖חַבand [the] breadth
verochavH7341 →101 times
חָמֵ֥שׁ[was] five
chameshH2568 →343 times
אַמּֽוֹת׃cubits
ʾamotH520 →247 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 stopsEach 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 40:29Its gate chambers, side pillars, and portico had the same measurements as the others. Both the gateway and its portico had windows all around; it was fifty cubits long and twenty-five cubits wide.
it leads to
- Ezekiel 40:16
The gate chambers and their side pillars had beveled windows all around the inside of the gateway. The porticos also had windows all around on the inside. Each side pillar was decorated with palm…
Reached by 3 separate paths from here.
- Ezekiel 40:25
Both the gateway and its portico had windows all around, like the other windows. It was fifty cubits long and twenty-five cubits wide.
Reached by 2 separate paths from here.
- Ezekiel 40:7
Each gate chamber was one rod long and one rod wide, and there were five cubits between the gate chambers. The inner threshold of the gate by the portico facing inward was one rod…
Reached by 2 separate paths from here.
- Ezekiel 40:10
There were three gate chambers on each side of the east gate, each with the same measurements, and the gateposts on either side also had the same measurements.
- Ezekiel 40:16
Through
Ezekiel 40:25Both the gateway and its portico had windows all around, like the other windows. It was fifty cubits long and twenty-five cubits wide.
it leads to
- Ezekiel 40:29
Its gate chambers, side pillars, and portico had the same measurements as the others. Both the gateway and its portico had windows all around; it was fifty cubits long and twenty-five cubits wide.
Reached by 2 separate paths from here.
- Ezekiel 40:33
Its gate chambers, side pillars, and portico had the same measurements as the others. Both the gateway and its portico had windows all around. It was fifty cubits long and twenty-five cubits wide.
- Ezekiel 40:29
Through
Ezekiel 40:33Its gate chambers, side pillars, and portico had the same measurements as the others. Both the gateway and its portico had windows all around. It was fifty cubits long and twenty-five cubits wide.
it leads to
- Ezekiel 40:21
Its three gate chambers on each side, its side pillars, and its portico all had the same measurements as the first gate: fifty cubits long and twenty-five cubits wide.
Reached by 2 separate paths from here.
- Ezekiel 40:21
Through
Ezekiel 40:21Its three gate chambers on each side, its side pillars, and its portico all had the same measurements as the first gate: fifty cubits long and twenty-five cubits wide.
it leads to
- Ezekiel 40:29–30
Its gate chambers, side pillars, and portico had the same measurements as the others. Both the gateway and its portico had windows all around; it was fifty cubits long and twenty-five cubits wide.
- Ezekiel 40:29–30
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This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Carl Friedrich Keil, Biblical Commentary on the Prophecies of Ezekiel; Gregory the Dialogist, Homilies on Ezekiel, Book 2, Homily 8; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; Jerome, Commentary on Ezekiel; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Patrick Fairbairn, An Exposition of Ezekiel.