What Does Ezekiel 40:25 Mean in the King James?
And there were windows in it and in the arches thereof round about, like those windows: the length 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 openness is built into its wall: each window is an intentional piercing, repeated within exact measure.
THE MEANING
This threshold has windows in the structure and its porch, running all around, and the whole span is measured. The openings do not cancel the enclosure; they belong to its design. A boundary can be defined without being sealed.
THE ROOT
חַלּוֹנוֹת
ḥallōnōt
GROWS FROM
חלל
ḥ-l-l
To pierce or bore through; this is a commonly proposed derivation for “window.”
“windows” in this verse is ḥallōnōt. The window’s name is commonly connected to the act of boring through: it is an opening within a solid boundary. Related words for something pierced and a hollow pipe show the root’s movement from piercing to an open passage.
ALSO GROWS
ḥālāl: A pierced or slain person.
חָלָל
The same root can describe what has been pierced; here, the piercing is an opening built into a wall.
ḥālîl: A hollow pipe instrument.
חָלִיל
Its open channel echoes the root’s sense of boring through, an opening made within a solid form.
THE PATTERN
Scripture places openings inside carefully formed structures; the boundary and the aperture belong to one design.
A window shalt thou make to the ark, and in a cubit shalt thou finish it above; and the door of the ark shalt thou set in the side thereof; with lower, second, and third stories shalt thou make it.And for the house he made windows of narrow lights.The door posts, and the narrow windows, and the galleries round about on their three stories, over against the door, cieled with wood round about, and from the ground up to the windows, and the windows were covered;THE THREAD
A window shalt thou make to the ark, and in a cubit shalt thou finish it above; and the door of the ark shalt thou set in the side thereof; with lower, second, and third stories shalt thou make it.Genesis gives the ark a חַלּוֹן (ḥallôn, “window”), and Ezekiel gives this gate windows: in both verses, an opening is built into a bounded structure. The shared Hebrew word makes the connection literal, the opening belongs to the design of refuge and threshold.
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