What Does Ezekiel 41:17 Mean?
To that above the opening, even unto the inner house and outside, and by all the wall around, within and without, by measure.
Key words are shown with the Hebrew or Greek and what each word meant.
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
To that above the door, even unto the inner house, and without, and by all the wall round about within and without, by measure.THE KEY
The measure crosses the threshold: doorway, inner house, outer face, and surrounding wall all belong to one continuous plan.
THE MEANING
The verse shows you a dwelling whose design does not stop at the inner room: its opening, interior, exterior, and encircling wall are all measured. What lies within and what faces outward belong to one ordered whole.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The sacred is confined to the innermost room.
THE ROOT
מִדּוֹת
middot
GROWS FROM
מדד
m-d-d
to measure, take dimensions
The closing phrase refers to actual measurements, from the root מדד (madad, to measure). The measure reaches from the doorway through the inner house and outward across the walls, giving the whole dwelling defined extent.
ALSO GROWS
madad: to measure, take dimensions
מָדַד
This verb names the measuring action behind the verse’s measured description.
middah: measure, dimension, extent
מִדָּה
The singular noun shows how the root gives a space its measurable dimensions.
פֶּתַח
petach
GROWS FROM
פתח
p-t-ch
to open
The Hebrew word for the door is petach, literally an opening. The description starts at this opening and extends into the house and beyond it, placing the threshold within the same measured design as the interior and exterior.
ALSO GROWS
patach: to open
פָּתַח
The verb reveals that the doorway is named as an opening, a passage into the measured space.
petach: opening, doorway, entrance
פֶּתַח
The noun marks the threshold where the description passes from the inner house toward the outside.
THE PATTERN
The dwelling of God is described as an ordered space whose boundaries and dimensions are measured.
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 behold, there was a wall outside the house all around, and in the man's hand a measuring reed of six forearms long, by the forearm and a handbreadth. He measured the breadth of the building, one reed, and its rising, one reed.And the one who speaks with me holds a golden reed to measure the city, and its gates, and its wall.THE THREAD
And behold, there was a wall outside the house all around, and in the man's hand a measuring reed of six forearms long, by the forearm and a handbreadth. He measured the breadth of the building, one reed, and its rising, one reed.The measured dimensions here and the measurements in Ezekiel 41:17 share the Hebrew root מדד (madad, to measure). The earlier verse places a measuring reed beside the outer wall; this verse carries that measurement across the doorway, inner house, and exterior.
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