Ezekiel 41:7 BSB — MannaFest

Ezekiel 41:7

The side rooms surrounding the temple widened at each successive level, because the structure surrounding the temple ascended by stages corresponding to the narrowing of the temple wall as it rose upward. And so a stairway went up from the lowest story to the highest, through the middle one.

BSB

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ASV

And the side-chambers were broader as they encompassed the house higher and higher; for the encompassing of the house went higher and higher round about the house: therefore the breadth of the house continued upward; and so one went up from the lowest chamber to the highest by the middle chamber.

KJV

And there was an enlarging, and a winding about still upward to the side chambers: for the winding about of the house went still upward round about the house: therefore the breadth of the house was still upward, and so increased from the lowest chamber to the highest by the midst.

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Commentary

2 voices

Jerome

Commentary on Ezekiel (420)

(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.

The record, by era

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

An enlarging - The “wall for the side-chambers” had for the ground story its full thickness of five cubits Eze 41:9 - then it was diminished one cubit, so as to form a ledge whereon to rest the beams of the floor of the second story, and again was further diminished one cubit for the floor of the third story. Thus there was an “enlarging” of the second story of the chambers by one cubit, and of the third story by two cubits beyond the breadth of the chambers on the ground-floor.

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Original language & word study

24 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וְֽרָחֲבָ֡ה	ve.ra.cha.Vah	and it was broad	H7337 →
וְֽנָסְבָה֩	ve.na.se.Vah	and it surrounded	H5437 →
לְמַ֨עְלָה	le.Ma'.lah	<to> upwards <towards>	H4605 →
לְמַ֜עְלָה	le.Ma'.lah	<to> upwards <towards>	H4605 →
לַצְּלָע֗וֹת	la.tze.la.'ot	to the side-chambers	H6763 →
כִּ֣י	ki	for	H3588 →
מֽוּסַב־	mu.sav-	[the] surrounding of	H4141 →
הַ֠בַּיִת	Ha.ba.yit	the house	H1004 →
לְמַ֨עְלָה	le.Ma'.lah	<to> upwards <towards>	H4605 →
לְמַ֜עְלָה	le.Ma'.lah	<to> upwards <towards>	H4605 →
סָבִ֤יב׀	sa.Viv	all around	H5439 →
סָבִיב֙	sa.Viv	all around	H5439 →
לַבַּ֔יִת	la.Ba.yit	to the house	H1004 →
עַל־	'al-	there-	H5921 →
כֵּ֥ן	ken	-fore	H3651 →
רֹֽחַב־	ro.chav-	[the] breadth	H7341 →
לַבַּ֖יִת	la.Ba.yit	of the house	H1004 →
לְמָ֑עְלָה	le.Ma.'e.lah	<to> upwards <towards>	H4605 →
וְכֵ֧ן	ve.Khen	and thus	H3651 →
הַתַּחְתּוֹנָ֛ה	ha.tach.to.Nah	the lower [story]	H8481 →
יַעֲלֶ֥ה	ya.'a.Leh	someone will ascend	H5927 →
עַל־	'al-	to	H5921 →
הָעֶלְיוֹנָ֖ה	ha.'el.yo.Nah	the upper [story]	H5945 →
לַתִּיכוֹנָֽה׃	la.ti.kho.Nah	to the middle [story]	H8484 →

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