What Does Ezekiel 40:23 Mean in the King James?
And the gate of the inner court was over against the gate toward the north, and toward the east; and he measured from gate to gate an hundred 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
Inwardness here is a measured relation: the inner gate faces an outer one across a defined span.
THE MEANING
The inward place has thresholds that face the openings at its edges. What lies between them has measure, so passage inward belongs to an intelligible arrangement rather than an empty gap.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The inner and outer are unrelated spaces, with nothing meaningful between their thresholds.
THE ROOT
וַיָּמָד
wayyāmad
GROWS FROM
מָדַד
madad
to measure, to mark out an extent
The verb shares its seed with terms for a dimension and for one who measures, joining the act, the measured interval, and the measurer in one word family. The hundred cubits is a defined span in the architecture, not an undefined space between two openings.
ALSO GROWS
middāh: measure, dimension, extent
מִדָּה
This branch names the extent itself: the space between the gates has a stated measure.
mōdēd: one who measures
מוֹדֵד
This branch names the one carrying out the measurement, showing that the interval is deliberately surveyed.
THE PATTERN
Sacred space is revealed through measured boundaries that keep its entrances in relation.
Then he measured the breadth from the forefront of the lower gate unto the forefront of the inner court without, an hundred cubits eastward and northward.Then said I, Whither goest thou? And he said unto me, To measure Jerusalem, to see what is the breadth thereof, and what is the length thereof.And he that talked with me had a golden reed to measure the city, and the gates thereof, and the wall thereof.THE THREAD
Now when he had made an end of measuring the inner house, he brought me forth toward the gate whose prospect is toward the east, and measured it round about.Both verses use מָדַד (madad), meaning “to measure,” to make the space around thresholds concrete. Here the inner and outer gates are set in relation; there, measuring the inner house leads toward the eastern gate, extending the same measured design outward.
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