What Does Exodus 27:13 Mean in the King James?
And the breadth of the court on the east side eastward shall be fifty cubits.
The analysis reads the King James wording.
King James Version The King James Version, first published in 1611. Selah Verse shows the standard text.
THE KEY
The word translated “breadth” shares its root with “room”: the court’s boundary is measured, yet what it holds is spacious.
THE MEANING
The court has fifty cubits of breadth on its eastern side, a width set out with precision. The word for breadth shares its root with words for widening and room, holding an edge and spaciousness together. Your sense of sacred space can include both definition and room.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
A defined boundary always means there is no room; here the bounded court has a measured breadth.
THE ROOT
רֹחַב
rōḥav
GROWS FROM
רחב
To grow wide, widen, or make room.
English gives you “breadth” as a dimension, while this root also gives words for widening and room. The court’s measured span belongs to a language of spaciousness, not only numerical boundaries.
ALSO GROWS
Rehoboth: Wide places; room.
רְחֹבוֹת
In Genesis 26:22, Rehoboth names the place where room has been made, showing the same root as spaciousness opened within a defined place.
rāḥav: To grow wide or become spacious; to enlarge.
רָחַב
Psalm 118:5 uses this root for being set in a large place after distress, linking breadth with movement out of constriction.
THE PATTERN
Scripture presents space as measurable while still making room for life and movement.
And he removed from thence, and digged another well; and for that they strove not: and he called the name of it Rehoboth; and he said, For now the LORD hath made room for us, and we shall be fruitful in the land.I called upon the LORD in distress: the LORD answered me, and set me in a large place.And the city lieth foursquare, and the length is as large as the breadth: and he measured the city with the reed, twelve thousand furlongs. The length and the breadth and the height of it are equal.THE THREAD
And he removed from thence, and digged another well; and for that they strove not: and he called the name of it Rehoboth; and he said, For now the LORD hath made room for us, and we shall be fruitful in the land.The court’s “breadth” and Rehoboth’s “room” grow from the same root, רחב (rāḥav, to widen or make room). In one verse the width is measured; in the other, room names the place itself.
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