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Ezekiel 41:5

in Ezekiel 41

Next he measured the wall of the temple to be six cubits thick, and the width of each side room around the temple was four cubits.

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

Then he measured the wall of the house, six cubits; and the breadth of every side-chamber, four cubits, round about the house on every side.

KJV

After he measured the wall of the house, six cubits; and the breadth of every side chamber, four cubits, round about the house on every side.

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This verse in Ezekiel 41

Commentary

3 notes on this verse

A commentator

Jerome

Commentary on Ezekiel · Written before 420.

on Ezekiel 41:5-7

(Vers. 5 seqq.) And the wall of the house was measured six cubits, and the width of each side was four cubits all around the house. The sides were side by side, thirty-three on each side, and there were projections that entered through the wall of the house on the sides all around, in order to contain them and not touch the wall of the temple. And there was a ascending courtyard: going up through a spiral staircase and leading to the upper room of the temple in a circular path.

This site's exposition

the wall of the house, six cubits

on Ezekiel 41:5-11

The wall of the house measures six cubits thick, with a belt of side chambers running around it three stories high, thirty in each course, that gain a cubit of width at each higher story because the wall is cut back to leave them a resting ledge rather than let their beams go into the temple wall. Keil and Fairbairn both read the detail on the beams not entering the temple wall as care that nothing driven into the sanctuary should support a mere store room, holiness kept structural rather than only ceremonial. Doors on the north and south let the chambers be reached without crossing the inner court, an arrangement the text records without explaining further.

The record, by era

The Nineteenth Century1 voice
The wall of the house - This was the outer wall of the temple itself. Its thickness of six cubits corresponds with the colossal proportions of the architecture of the east. Every side chamber - the side-chambers (D). These were a marked feature in Solomon’s Temple, and were probably used as storehouses for the furniture and property of the temple. The arrangement of these side-chambers differed in some respects from that of Solomon’s Temple, the object of Ezekiel’s vision being throughout to bring all things to a more exact proportion.

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.

  • וַיָּ֥מָדand he measured

    vaiyamodH4058 →51 times

  • קִֽיר־[the] wall of

    kir-H7023 →75 times

  • הַבַּ֖יִתthe house

    habayitH1004 →2046 times

  • שֵׁ֣שׁsix

    sheshH8337 →216 times

  • אַמּ֑וֹתcubits

    ʾamotH520 →247 times

  • וְרֹ֣חַבand [the] breadth of

    verochavH7341 →101 times

  • הַצֵּלָע֩the side-chamber

    hatzela'H6763 →40 times

  • אַרְבַּ֨ע[was] four

    ʾarba'H702 →318 times

  • אַמּ֜וֹתcubits

    ʾamotH520 →247 times

  • סָבִ֧יב׀all around

    savivH5439 →336 times

  • סָבִ֛יבall around

    savivH5439 →336 times

  • לַבַּ֖יִתto the house

    labayitH1004 →2046 times

  • סָבִֽיב׃all around

    savivH5439 →336 times

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

Related verses

4 in all, six open

The number beside each verse is how many compiled reference works tie it to this one. The strongest six stand open.

Ezekiel 41:6–9The side rooms were arranged one above another in three levels of thirty rooms each. There were ledges all around the wall of the temple to serve as supports for the side rooms, so that the supports would not be fastened into the wall of the temple itself.2 worksEzekiel 42:3–14Gallery faced gallery in three levels opposite the twenty cubits that belonged to the inner court and opposite the pavement that belonged to the outer court.2 works1 Kings 6:5–6Against the walls of the temple and the inner sanctuary, Solomon built a chambered structure around the temple, in which he constructed the side rooms.2 worksEzekiel 41:26There were beveled windows and palm trees on the sidewalls of the portico. The side rooms of the temple also had canopies.2 works

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
Ezekiel: the study guide →Read Ezekiel 41 →

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 and Patrick Fairbairn, An Exposition of Ezekiel.

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