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Ezekiel 41:13

in Ezekiel 41

Then he measured the temple to be a hundred cubits long, and the temple courtyard and the building with its walls were also a hundred cubits long.

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

So he measured the house, a hundred cubits long; and the separate place, and the building, with the walls thereof, a hundred cubits long;

KJV

So he measured the house, an hundred cubits long; and the separate place, and the building, with the walls thereof, an hundred cubits long;

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This verse in Ezekiel 41

Commentary

2 notes on this verse

A commentator

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible · Written before 1832.

So he measured the house - The temple, taken from the wall which encompassed it from the western side to the vestibule, was one hundred and one cubits; five for the separate place, nine for the wall and the chambers attached to the temple, sixty for the sanctuary and the holy place, ten for the vestibule, and twelve for the two great walls on the west and east of the temple; in all, one hundred and one cubits, See the plan, GHI.

This site's exposition

the building that was before the separate place

on Ezekiel 41:12-17

The building beyond the temple to the west, the separate place, and the house itself are each brought to the same round total, a hundred cubits, the vision's proportions announcing themselves in whole numbers rather than the odd fractions an actual construction project usually carries. Narrow windows, three-story galleries and walls cieled with wood round about are recorded as an eyewitness would report them, the tour continuing past the sanctuary to the buildings around it rather than stopping once the most holy place has been named. The measurements are carried as the text gives them, and the commentators divide over whether a future precinct or an ideal proportion is intended, a question the architecture itself does not settle.

How the passage was read

What the Jewish commentators add

And he measured the House, its length was one hundred cubits the grand total, including the extension of the Depository of the Knives. So we learned in Tractate Middoth [concerning the Second Temple] (4:6): “The Heichal was 100 by, with a height of 100 cubits.
Rashi: France, 1040–1105 · Rashi on Ezekiel 41:13:1, 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. 4 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

12 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.

  • וּמָדַ֣דand he measured

    umadadH4058 →51 times

  • אֶת־<obj.>

    ʾet-H853 →10935 times

  • הַבַּ֔יִתthe house

    habayitH1004 →2046 times

  • אֹ֖רֶךְ[the] length

    ʾorekhH753 →95 times

  • מֵאָ֣ה[was] a hundred

    meahH3967 →581 times

  • אַמָּ֑הcubit[s]

    ʾamahH520 →247 times

  • וְהַגִּזְרָ֤הand the separate place

    vehagizrahH1508 →8 times

  • וְהַבִּנְיָה֙and the structure

    vehabinyahH1140 →

  • וְקִ֣ירוֹתֶ֔יהָand walls its

    vekiroteihaH7023 →75 times

  • אֹ֖רֶךְ[the] length

    ʾorekhH753 →95 times

  • מֵאָ֥ה[was] a hundred

    meahH3967 →581 times

  • אַמָּֽה׃cubit[s]

    ʾamahH520 →247 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

3 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 40:47

    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.

    it leads to

    • 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.

    • Ezekiel 40:19

      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.

    • 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.

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
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This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Carl Friedrich Keil, Biblical Commentary on the Prophecies of Ezekiel and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.

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