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Ezekiel 41:11

in Ezekiel 41

The side rooms opened into this area, with one entrance on the north and another on the south. The open area was five cubits wide all around.

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

And the doors of the side-chambers were toward the place that was left, one door toward the north, and another door toward the south: and the breadth of the place that was left was five cubits round about.

KJV

And the doors of the side chambers were toward the place that was left, one door toward the north, and another door toward the south: and the breadth of the place that was left was five cubits round about.

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This verse in Ezekiel 41

Commentary

5 notes on this verse

This site's exposition

the wall of the temple

on Ezekiel 41:5-11

The wall of the temple is six cubits thick. Side rooms ring it in three levels of thirty rooms each, widening at each level because the wall narrows as it rises. Ledges carry the rooms, “so that the supports would not be fastened into the wall of the temple itself”.

This site's exposition

one entrance on the north and another on the south

The side rooms open only to the north and south, into the free space around the house. The east front is left to the temple's own entrance, which faces the gate where the glory returns in 43:4. The five cubits keep the way to those entrances clear.

The record, by era

The Church Fathers1 voice

A commentator

Jerome

Commentary on Ezekiel · Written before 420.

proposed

(Versed. 8 seqq.) 'And I saw in the house a height all around, with foundations of reed measuring six cubits, and the width along the outer wall of the side chamber, five cubits. And the inner part of the house and the space between the storehouses, twenty cubits wide all around the house. And there were doors in the side chambers toward the outer court, one door toward the north, and another door toward the south. And the width of the place for worship, five cubits all around.'

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

And the doors of the side chambers were towards the place that was left,....

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

The doors of the side-chambers opened on to the passage or corridor, between the chambers and the temple-wall.

How the passage was read

What the Jewish commentators add

And the entrance of the cell was toward the clear space And the entrances of the outside cells were open to the left over clear area in the corner, as I explained.
Rashi: France, 1040–1105 · Rashi on Ezekiel 41:11:1, via Sefaria, The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg
1 more on this passage, in their own words ▾
And between the chambers was a width of twenty cubits There were chambers in the Outer Court, at the north and at the south of the Inner Court, near its wall.
Rashi: France, 1040–1105 · Rashi on Ezekiel 41:10:1, via Sefaria, The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg

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

17 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.

  • וּפֶ֤תַחand [the] entrance of

    ufetachH6607 →164 times

  • הַצֵּלָע֙the side-chamber

    hatzela'H6763 →40 times

  • לַמֻּנָּ֔ח[was] to the free space

    lamunachH5117 →142 times

  • פֶּ֤תַחan entrance

    petachH6607 →164 times

  • אֶחָד֙one

    ʾechadH259 →971 times

  • דֶּ֣רֶךְ[was] [the] direction of

    derekhH1870 →707 times

  • הַצָּפ֔וֹןthe north

    hatzafonH6828 →153 times

  • וּפֶ֥תַחand an entrance

    ufetachH6607 →164 times

  • אֶחָ֖דone

    ʾechadH259 →971 times

  • לַדָּר֑וֹם[was] to the south

    ladaromH1864 →17 times

  • וְרֹ֙חַב֙and [the] breadth of

    verochavH7341 →101 times

  • מְק֣וֹם[the] place of

    mekomH4725 →401 times

  • הַמֻּנָּ֔חthe free space

    hamunachH5117 →142 times

  • חָמֵ֥שׁ[was] five

    chameshH2568 →343 times

  • אַמּ֖וֹתcubits

    ʾamotH520 →247 times

  • סָבִ֥יב׀all around

    savivH5439 →336 times

  • סָבִֽיב׃all around

    savivH5439 →336 times

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

Related verses

2 in all, six open

The walk

5 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 42:4

    In front of the chambers was an inner walkway ten cubits wide and a hundred cubits long. Their doors were on the north.

    it leads to

    • Ezekiel 46:19

      Then the man brought me through the entrance at the side of the gate into the holy chambers facing north, which belonged to the priests, and he showed me a place there at the…

    • Luke 13:24

      “Make every effort to enter through the narrow door. For many, I tell you, will try to enter and will not be able.

    • Matthew 7:14

      But small is the gate and narrow the way that leads to life, and only a few find it.

  • Through

    Ezekiel 41:9

    The outer wall of the side rooms was five cubits thick, and the open area between the side rooms of the temple

    it leads to

    • Ezekiel 42:1

      Then the man led me out northward into the outer court, and he brought me to the group of chambers opposite the temple courtyard and the outer wall on the north side.

    • Ezekiel 42:4

      In front of the chambers was an inner walkway ten cubits wide and a hundred cubits long. Their doors were on the north.

About Ezekiel

Ezekiel’s Vision of the Valley of Dry Bones, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
Ezekiel’s Vision of the Valley of Dry Bones, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
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This page draws on Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Carl Friedrich Keil, Biblical Commentary on the Prophecies of Ezekiel; Jerome, Commentary on Ezekiel; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Patrick Fairbairn, An Exposition of Ezekiel.

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