What Does Ezekiel 40:22 Mean in the King James?
And their windows, and their arches, and their palm trees, were after the measure of the gate that looketh toward the east; and they went up unto it by seven steps; and the arches thereof were before them.
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 Hebrew calls the seven steps and the act of going up by forms of the same root, making ascent part of the gate itself.
THE MEANING
You meet a gate whose windows, arches, and palm forms follow the east gate’s measure; its seven steps give the approach a defined rise. The way through is already shaped into the structure.
THE ROOT
מַעֲלוֹת
ma'alot
GROWS FROM
עלה
ʿ-l-h
To go up, ascend, or rise.
“steps / went up” in this verse is ma'alot. The Hebrew forms for “steps” and “they went up” both grow from עלה. English separates the stairway from the movement, while the Hebrew names them as one idea: the steps are an ascent built into the gate.
ALSO GROWS
ma'alah: A step, stair, or ascent.
מַעֲלָה
Its plural, מַעֲלוֹת (ma’alot), names the seven steps in this verse.
'olah: That which rises; an ascending or burnt offering.
עֹלָה
This offering’s name comes from the same root, extending the language of ascent beyond stairs to what rises toward God.
THE PATTERN
Approach to what is set apart is pictured as a defined ascent, with the route upward built into the way through.
Then came he unto the gate which looketh toward the east, and went up the stairs thereof, and measured the threshold of the gate, which was one reed broad; and the other threshold of the gate, which was one reed broad.Who shall ascend into the hill of the LORD? or who shall stand in his holy place?And he dreamed, and behold a ladder set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven: and behold the angels of God ascending and descending on it.THE THREAD
And he dreamed, and behold a ladder set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven: and behold the angels of God ascending and descending on it.The angels are “ascending” (עֹלִים, ‘olim), from the same root עלה that names Ezekiel’s steps (מַעֲלוֹת, ma’alot) and the act of going up (יַעֲלוּ, ya’alu). The ladder makes explicit the upward movement already held inside the measured gate.
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