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.
• English Standard Version (ESV)Then he measured the wall of the temple, six cubits thick, and the breadth of the side chambers, four cubits, all around the temple.
• 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.

Context of Ezekiel 41:5

3Then the man went inside and measured the passageway. It was 3½ feet thick. The entrance was 10½ feet high and 12 feet wide. 4Then he measured the room at the end of the holy place. It was 35 feet long and 35 feet wide. The man said to me, “This is the most holy place.” Next, the man measured the temple wall. It was 10½ feet wide. The width of each side room around the temple was 7 feet. 6The rooms were arranged on three different stories. There were 30 rooms on each story. These rooms had supports all the way around the temple wall, but these supports were not fastened to the temple wall. 7The side rooms grew wider all the way around as they went up, story after story. The surrounding structure went from story to story all around the temple. The structure grew wider as it went higher. A stairway went from the first story through the second story to the third 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 41:6The rooms were arranged on three different stories. There were 30 rooms on each story. These rooms had supports all the way around the temple wall, but these supports were not fastened to the temple wall.
• Ezekiel 42:3Opposite the inner courtyard was an area that was 35 feet wide, and opposite the pavement of the outer courtyard were corridors facing corridors on all three stories.
• 1 Kings 6:5He built an annex containing side rooms all around the temple. This annex was next to the walls of the main building and the inner sanctuary.

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