What Does Ezekiel 41:10 Mean?
And between the rib chambers was a breadth of twenty forearms around the house on every side.
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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 between the chambers was the wideness of twenty cubits round about the house on every side.THE KEY
The house’s measured openness is part of its architecture, not leftover space.
THE MEANING
You are shown a house with a measured interval of open space between the chambers and the house: twenty cubits on every side. That space extends around the whole house as part of its design.
THE ROOT
רֹחַב
roḥav
GROWS FROM
רחב
r-ḥ-b
To widen, become broad or spacious.
The noun “wideness” grows from רחב (r-ḥ-b), “to widen, become broad,” the same root as רָחַב (rāḥab), “to become wide,” and מֶרְחָב (merḥav), “a broad, open place.” English presents a measurement; the Hebrew root also carries the widening and the open space it makes, so the twenty cubits describe room around the house.
ALSO GROWS
rāḥab: To become broad or to widen.
רָחַב
This verbal branch shows widening as an action; the house’s broad interval is the space that widening makes.
merḥav: An expanse or spacious place.
מֶרְחָב
Psalm 118:5 uses this branch for the large place into which the speaker is brought, echoing the open width around the house.
THE PATTERN
Scripture makes spaciousness tangible as room built around a house, opened for a tent, and carried within a heart.
From the narrow place I call out to the LORD, and the LORD answers me in a wide place.Widen the place of your tent, and let the curtains of your dwellings stretch out. Do not hold back; lengthen your cords, and grip your pegs.O Corinthians, our mouth is open toward you, our heart is widened.THE THREAD
From the narrow place I call out to the LORD, and the LORD answers me in a wide place.The Hebrew “wideness,” רֹחַב (roḥav), and “large place,” מֶרְחָב (merḥav), share the root רחב (r-ḥ-b), “to widen, become broad.” In Ezekiel the breadth is measured around the house; in the psalm it is the open place where the speaker finds room.
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