What Does Ezekiel 40:30 Mean?
And the porches all around were twenty-five forearms long and five forearms wide.
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Selah Decoded Version The Selah Decoded Version renders what the Hebrew and Greek words meant to the people who first heard them.
King James wording
King James Version
And the arches round about were five and twenty cubits long, and five cubits broad.THE KEY
The porch’s measured breadth uses the Hebrew root that also names a wide-open place.
THE MEANING
You are shown a space with a precise shape: twenty-five cubits long and five broad. The word translated “broad” belongs to a Hebrew family that also names spaciousness, so even within this measured structure the language opens toward room. The sacred space has a form you can perceive.
THE ROOT
רֹחַב
roḥav
GROWS FROM
רחב
To be wide or spacious.
“wide” in this verse is roḥav. The verse’s word for breadth carries the same root that names open, spacious places. English gives a dimension; Hebrew also lets that dimension echo with the possibility of room.
ALSO GROWS
rāḥāb: wide, broad
רָחָב
This adjective belongs to the same root family as the porch’s measured breadth.
merḥav: a broad or open place
מֶרְחָב
Psalm 118:5 uses this word for the spacious place where the speaker is set, linking architectural width with lived room.
THE PATTERN
The dwelling of God is described as measurable space, with its proportions made visible.
And the house that king Solomon built for the LORD, its length was sixty forearms, and its breadth twenty, and its height thirty forearms.And the city lies four-cornered, and its length is as great as its width. And he measures the city with the reed, twelve thousand stades. Its length and width and height are equal.THE THREAD
From the narrow place I call out to the LORD, and the LORD answers me in a wide place.The verse’s “broad” (רֹחַב, roḥav) and Psalm 118:5’s “large place” (מֶרְחָב, merḥav) share the root רחב. The same Hebrew seed names both architectural width and the spaciousness of being set in an open place.
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