What Does Ezekiel 41:23 Mean?
And the temple and the set-apart place had two doors.
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
And the temple and the sanctuary had two doors.THE KEY
The set-apart place has doors: its boundary contains a way through.
THE MEANING
What is set apart still has a threshold: the temple and sanctuary each have two doors. The verse holds distinction and approach together, with passage built into the boundary.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The belief that what is set apart must be completely beyond reach.
THE ROOT
קֹדֶשׁ
qodesh
GROWS FROM
קדש
Q-D-Sh
To set apart or dedicate to sacred use.
“set-apart place” in this verse is qodesh. KJV “sanctuary” names a place; qodesh also carries the set-apart quality that makes it sacred. Here, that set-apartness is not a blank barrier: the distinct place has doors.
ALSO GROWS
qadash: To set apart or consecrate.
קָדַשׁ
The sanctuary’s name carries the act of being set apart within it.
qadosh: Set apart, sacred.
קָדוֹשׁ
This adjective shares the sanctuary’s root, linking the place to its distinct character.
miqdash: Sanctuary, set-apart place.
מִקְדָּשׁ
This related noun makes the place itself an expression of the same set-apart root.
THE PATTERN
Set-apart space keeps a threshold: its boundary has an opening through which approach is possible.
And for the entering of the innermost room he made doors of olive tree; the lintel and side posts were a fifth of the wall.I am the door. Through me, if anyone enters, he shall be delivered, and shall go in and out, and shall find pasture.Look, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and eat with him, and he with me.THE THREAD
And for the entering of the innermost room he made doors of olive tree; the lintel and side posts were a fifth of the wall.The “doors” in both verses use the Hebrew noun דֶּלֶת (delet), meaning door. In each, the set-apart inner space has a real threshold, so distinction and passage belong together.
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