Ezekiel 42:19
in Ezekiel 42And he came around and measured the west side to be five hundred cubits long.
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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
He turned about to the west side, and measured five hundred reeds with the measuring reed.
KJV
He turned about to the west side, and measured five hundred reeds with the measuring reed.
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This verse in Ezekiel 42
Commentary
6 notes on this verse(Verse 15 onwards) When he had finished measuring the interior dimensions of the house, he led me along the way of the gate that faced east, and he measured it all around. (He measured the likeness of the house all around in order.) He measured the east side with the measuring rod; it was 500 rods long by the measuring rod all around. (He also measured the north side, south side, and west side.) And he measured against the north wind, five hundred cubits, measuring with a cubit in circumference.
This site's exposition
had finished measuring the interior
on Ezekiel 42:15-20
The inner survey ends. The rod goes around the whole: five hundred cubits, a square with a wall all around, “to separate the holy from the common”. The glory left a defiled house at 11:23, and this wall is set two chapters before its return at 43:4.
This site's exposition
he came around and measured the west side
The tour that began at the east gate in 40:6 comes to its end on the west, as Jerome traces it. From here the vision turns from buildings to the glory itself. Chapter 43 opens back at the east gate.
The record, by era
The Puritans and the Awakening3 voices
Thus large were the suburbs (as I may call them) of this mystical temple, signifying the great extent of the church in gospel-times, when all nations should be discipled and the kingdoms of the world made Christ's kingdoms. Room should be made in God's courts for the numerous forces of the Gentiles that shall flow into them, as was foretold, Isa. xlix.
13 Then said he unto me, The north chambers and the south chambers, which are before the separate place, they be holy chambers, where the priests that approach unto the L ORD shall eat the most holy things: there shall they lay the most holy things, and the meat offering, and the sin offering, and the trespass offering; for the place is holy.
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He turned about to the west side,.... And took the dimensions of that, from angle to angle, the south and north points of it: and measured five hundred reeds, with the measuring reed; and it was exactly of the same measure with the other three sides.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| סָבַ֖ב | savav | he turned | H5437 → | 161 times |
| אֶל־ | ʾel- | to | H413 → | 5510 times |
| ר֣וּחַ | ruach | [the] side of | H7307 → | 378 times |
| הַיָּ֑ם | haiyam | the sea | H3220 → | 396 times |
| מָדַ֛ד | madad | he measured [it] | H4058 → | 51 times |
| חֲמֵשׁ־ | chamesh- | five | H2568 → | 343 times |
| מֵא֥וֹת | meot | hundred<s> | H3967 → | 581 times |
| קָנִ֖ים | kanim | reeds | H7070 → | 62 times |
| בִּקְנֵ֥ה | bikneh | by [the] reed of | H7070 → | 62 times |
| הַמִּדָּֽה׃ | hamidah | <the> measurement | H4060 → | 55 times |
סָבַ֖בhe turned
savavH5437 →161 times
אֶל־to
ʾel-H413 →5510 times
ר֣וּחַ[the] side of
ruachH7307 →378 times
הַיָּ֑םthe sea
haiyamH3220 →396 times
מָדַ֛דhe measured [it]
madadH4058 →51 times
חֲמֵשׁ־five
chamesh-H2568 →343 times
מֵא֥וֹתhundred<s>
meotH3967 →581 times
קָנִ֖יםreeds
kanimH7070 →62 times
בִּקְנֵ֥הby [the] reed of
biknehH7070 →62 times
הַמִּדָּֽה׃<the> measurement
hamidahH4060 →55 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
About Ezekiel
This page draws on Jerome, Commentary on Ezekiel; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible and Patrick Fairbairn, An Exposition of Ezekiel.