What Does Ezekiel 40:13 Mean in the King James?
He measured then the gate from the roof of one little chamber to the roof of another: the breadth was five and twenty cubits, door against door.
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 door is itself an opening, and its measure is completed by the opening it faces.
THE MEANING
You see the gate’s breadth measured from one chamber roof to another, with one opening facing another. Passage takes shape as a span of space, defined in relation to what stands across from it.
THE ROOT
רֹחַב
rōḥav
GROWS FROM
רחב
to be broad or spacious
The Hebrew word for breadth carries the sense of roominess as well as width. The measurement gives the passage a defined span of space.
ALSO GROWS
rāḥav: to become broad or spacious
רָחַב
The verb shares the root behind the gate’s breadth, linking its measured width with the quality of having room.
Reḥōvōt: broad places; room
רְחֹבוֹת
This is the name Rehoboth in Genesis 26:22, where the same root appears in the words “hath made room for us.”
פֶּתַח
petaḥ
GROWS FROM
פתח
to open; an opening
The word translated “door” also means an opening or entrance. The phrase “door against door” repeats that opening on the other side, making the passage a relation between two openings.
ALSO GROWS
pātaḥ: to open
פָּתַח
The verb makes the doorway’s nature visible: it is an opening through which passage can occur.
petaḥ: opening; doorway; entrance
פֶּתַח
In this verse, the same word names both the door and the opening it faces.
THE PATTERN
Openings become passages through measured space and relation to what they face.
Open to me the gates of righteousness: I will go into them, and I will praise the LORD:I am the door: by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out, and find pasture.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 Hebrew word for “breadth,” רֹחַב (rōḥav), shares its root with Rehoboth and “hath made room for us” here. The measured width of Ezekiel’s passage opens into the same root’s sense of room enough for fruitfulness.
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