Ezekiel 41:5

Ezekiel 41:5 in other versions

• King James Version (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.
• New International Version (NIV)Then he measured the wall of the temple; it was six cubits thick, and each side room around the temple was four cubits wide.
• New King James Version (NKJV)Next, he measured the wall of the temple, six cubits. The width of each side chamber all around the temple was four cubits on every side.
• New Living Translation (NLT)Then he measured the wall of the Temple, and it was 10-1/2 feet thick. There was a row of rooms along the outside wall; each room was 7 feet wide.

Context of Ezekiel 41:5

3Then he went into the inner room and measured the jambs of the entrance, two cubits; and the entrance, six cubits; and the sidewalls on either side of the entrance, seven cubits. 4And he measured the length of the room, twenty cubits, and its breadth, twenty cubits, across the nave. And he said to me, "This is the Most Holy Place." Then he measured the wall of the temple, six cubits thick, and the breadth of the side chambers, four cubits, all around the temple. 6And the side chambers were in three stories, one over another, thirty in each story. There were offsets all around the wall of the temple to serve as supports for the side chambers, so that they should not be supported by the wall of the temple. 7And it became broader as it wound upward to the side chambers, because the temple was enclosed upward all around the temple. Thus the temple had a broad area upward, and so one went up from the lowest story to the top story through the middle story.

Ezekiel 41:5 word by word

וַיָּ֥מָד קִֽיר־הַבַּ֖יִת שֵׁ֣שׁ אַמּ֑וֹת וְרֹ֣חַב הַצֵּלָע֩ אַרְבַּ֨ע אַמּ֜וֹת סָבִ֧יב׀ סָבִ֛יב לַבַּ֖יִת סָבִֽיב׃Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• After he measuredמָדַדmâdad · to measureH4058
• the wallקִירqîyr qir qîyrâh · wallH7023
• of the houseבַּ֫יִתbayith · house: homeH1004
• sixשֵׁשׁshêsh shishshâh · sixH8337
• cubitsאַמָּה'ammâh · cubitH520
• and the breadthרֹ֫חַבrôchab · widthH7341
• side chamberצֵלָעtsêlâ‛ tsal‛âh · sideH6763
• fourאַרְבַּע'arba‛ 'arbâ‛âh · fourH702
• round aboutסָבִיבsâbîyb sebîybâh · aroundH5439

Cross-references for Ezekiel 41:5

• Ezekiel 41:6And the side chambers were in three stories, one over another, thirty in each story. There were offsets all around the wall of the temple to serve as supports for the side chambers, so that they should not be supported by the wall of the temple.
• Ezekiel 42:3Facing the twenty cubits that belonged to the inner court, and facing the pavement that belonged to the outer court, was gallery against gallery in three stories.
• 1 Kings 6:5He also built a structure against the wall of the house, running around the walls of the house, both the nave and the inner sanctuary. And he made side chambers all around.

Commentaries on Ezekiel 41:5

• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 5The 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…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 5-26The temple had 90 side rooms on three levels. Behind it was a large building with an unknown purpose, possibly to prevent unauthorized access. No one could approach God's presence from behind. The side rooms might have stored priestly clothing and equipment.Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 55. side chamber--the singular used collectively for the plural. These chambers were appendages attached to the outside of the temple, on the west, north, and south; for on the east side, the principal entrance, there were no chambers. The narrowness of the chambers was in order that the beams could be supported without needing pillars. The plan is similar to that of the hall at Koyunjik, a large central hall, called the oracle, with smaller rooms built…Read the comment

In the dictionaries

• Architecture
• Atonement, Day of
• Criticism
• Desire of All Nations
• Ezekiel
• Four
• Leviticus
• Priest, High
• Priests and Levites
• Temple

Commentaries on Ezekiel 41

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings