What Does Ezekiel 40:15 Mean in the King James?
And from the face of the gate of the entrance unto the face of the porch of the inner gate were 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 verse measures a face-to-face approach: the entry and the inner gate each have a front, and the passage between them belongs to the design.
THE MEANING
The way from the entrance gate to the porch of the inner gate has a defined span: fifty cubits. Each threshold has its own face, and the space between them is part of the measured approach.
THE ROOT
פְּנֵי
penei
GROWS FROM
פנה
panah
to turn or face toward
“face” in this verse is penei. The same Hebrew word appears twice, naming the front of both the entrance gate and the inner porch. Its word family also carries the sense of presence, so the verse’s measured span joins two faces rather than merely marking an abstract distance.
ALSO GROWS
panah: turn, face toward
פָּנָה
The root’s movement toward something gives “face” a directional quality: each face marks an orientation in the approach.
lifnei: before, in front of
לִפְנֵי
This related form shows how the face-word also locates one thing in front of another, echoing the verse’s measured passage from one architectural front to the next.
THE PATTERN
Approaches to sacred spaces are given ordered, measurable form through gates, porches, and boundaries.
And for the gate of the court shall be an hanging of twenty cubits, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, wrought with needlework: and their pillars shall be four, and their sockets four.And the porch before the temple of the house, twenty cubits was the length thereof, according to the breadth of the house; and ten cubits was the breadth thereof before the house.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 said, My presence shall go with thee, and I will give thee rest.The Hebrew word translated “face” in this verse is also translated “presence” in Exodus 33:14. That shared word opens the measured faces of the gates to a further sense: a front can also be a presence that accompanies.
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