What Does Ezekiel 41:21 Mean?
The posts of the temple were squared, and the face of the set-apart place; the one looked as the other looked.
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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
The posts of the temple were squared, and the face of the sanctuary; the appearance of the one as the appearance of the other.THE KEY
The sanctuary’s face matches the temple’s appearance, making the holy place part of one visible, ordered form.
THE MEANING
The temple’s posts are squared, and the sanctuary’s face bears the same appearance as the temple. The holy place comes into view as part of one ordered form: its face and the surrounding house correspond.
THE ROOT
מַרְאֶה
mar’eh
GROWS FROM
ראה
To see, look at, or perceive.
The word translated “appearance” grows from the verb “to see.” The matching forms are presented as something seen: the sanctuary’s face belongs to a shared visible pattern.
ALSO GROWS
ra’ah: To see, look at, or perceive.
רָאָה
This verb is the seed behind “appearance,” tying the sanctuary’s form to the act of seeing it.
mar’eh: Appearance, sight, or vision.
מַרְאֶה
This is the word used here: what is seen, and how the two forms correspond.
ro’eh: One who sees; a seer.
רֹאֶה
This branch names the one who perceives, showing the same root at work in both the visible form and the seeing of it.
THE PATTERN
A visible form can echo the pattern from which it takes its shape.
And see that you make them according to their form, which was shown to you on the mountain.who serve in a tracing and a shadow of the heavenly things, as Moses was warned by God when he was about to finish the tent. For look, he says, "Make all things according to the impression shown to you on the mountain."But we all, with uncovered faces, mirror the weight of the LORD, and are being reshaped into the same image, ever increasing in weight, even as from the breath of the LORD.THE THREAD
In the sights of God he brought me into the land of Israel, and set me down upon a very high mountain, and upon it, like the building of a city, toward the dry south.“Visions” and “appearance” come from the Hebrew root ראה, “to see.” The matching sanctuary forms in 41:21 belong to a vision in which the structure itself is disclosed to sight.
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