What Does Ezekiel 40:21 Mean in the King James?
And the little chambers thereof were three on this side and three on that side; and the posts thereof and the arches thereof were after the measure of the first gate: the length thereof was fifty cubits, and the breadth five and twenty 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 gate’s symmetry is deliberate: three chambers stand on each side, and the whole entrance follows the measure of the first gate.
THE MEANING
The way into this space has a repeatable shape: three chambers on either side, with the posts and arches measured by the first gate. A shared measure carries the design from one entrance to the next.
THE ROOT
מִדּוֹת
middot
GROWS FROM
מדד
madad
To measure, to determine an extent.
The verse ties this gate’s proportions to the first gate through the repeated language of measure. The Hebrew connects the dimension itself, מִדָּה (middah, measure or extent), with מָדַד (madad, to measure): the shared measure makes the repeated design visible.
ALSO GROWS
madad: To measure.
מָדַד
The verb names the action behind the dimensions, showing that the structure is given form through measured extent.
middah: Measure, dimension, or extent.
מִדָּה
This noun names the proportion the present gate shares with the first gate.
הָרִאשׁוֹן
harishon
GROWS FROM
ראשׁ
rosh
Head, top, or beginning.
The gate is measured against a named point of reference: the first gate. The root carries the sense of a head or beginning, linking this entrance’s dimensions to the design’s starting point.
ALSO GROWS
rosh: Head or top.
רֹאשׁ
The sense of a head helps illuminate why the first gate can serve as the design’s reference point.
reshit: Beginning or first part.
רֵאשִׁית
This branch carries the sense of a beginning, echoing the verse’s use of the first gate as the measure for what follows.
THE PATTERN
Sacred structures take shape through measured designs that are repeated across their parts.
And look that thou make them after their pattern, which was shewed thee in the mount.After that he brought me toward the south, and behold a gate toward the south: and he measured the posts thereof and the arches thereof according to these measures.Who serve unto the example and shadow of heavenly things, as Moses was admonished of God when he was about to make the tabernacle: for, See, saith he, that thou make all things according to the pattern shewed to thee in the mount.THE THREAD
Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and meted out heaven with the span, and comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance?The Hebrew root מדד (madad, “to measure”) appears in both passages. Ezekiel applies measured proportion to a gate; Isaiah uses the same root family for the waters and heavens, extending the language of measure from an entrance to the ordering of creation.
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