What Does Ezekiel 41:14 Mean?

Also the breadth of the face of the house, and of the cut-off place toward the east, one hundred forearms.

Ezekiel 41:14 · SDV

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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.

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King James Version

Also the breadth of the face of the house, and of the separate place toward the east, an hundred cubits.

THE KEY

The Hebrew word for the house’s “breadth” shares its root with the word for an open square, so this measure carries spaciousness inside its geometry.

THE MEANING

The verse measures the breadth of the house’s face and the separate place toward the east at one hundred cubits. The shared measure holds the building and its eastern precinct within one architectural reach.

THE ROOT

רֹחַב

rōḥav

GROWS FROM

רחב

r-ḥ-b

To widen or be spacious.

English gives one architectural term, but Hebrew ⁨רחב⁩ (r-ḥ-b, “to widen; be spacious”) also grows into the word for an open square. The hundred-cubit measurement therefore echoes a wider sense of breadth as space opened out.

ALSO GROWS

rāḥav: Broad, wide, spacious.

רָחָב

This adjective shares the root and makes the verse’s measured breadth part of a wider Hebrew language of spaciousness.

reḥov: An open square or street.

רְחֹב

This branch extends breadth from a building’s dimension to an open place, showing what the same root can name beyond architecture.

THE PATTERN

Sacred space becomes legible through measured proportions: its breadth and boundaries are given definite form.

The length of the enclosure shall be one hundred forearms, and its width fifty throughout, and its standing height five forearms of fine twisted linen, and their bases of bronze.

Exodus 27:18 · SDVThe court surrounding the sacred space is defined by measured length, breadth, and height.

And the house that king Solomon built for the LORD, its length was sixty forearms, and its breadth twenty, and its height thirty forearms.

1 Kings 6:2 · SDVThe house is made legible through its exact proportions, including its breadth.

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.

Revelation 21:16 · SDVThe measured city carries sacred architecture into a vision where its dimensions are named and balanced.

THE THREAD

He brings me out into a broad place; he pulls me loose, because he delights in me.

Psalm 18:19 · SDV

Ezekiel’s ⁨רֹחַב⁩ (rōḥav, “breadth”) and the psalm’s ⁨מֶרְחָב⁩ (merḥav, “wide place”) share the root ⁨רחב⁩ (r-ḥ-b, “to widen; be spacious”). Here the root measures a house; there it names the spacious place into which the speaker is brought.

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