What Does Ezekiel 40:28 Mean in the King James?
And he brought me to the inner court by the south gate: and he measured the south gate according to these measures;
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 inner place is reached through a threshold whose measure is already given.
THE MEANING
The movement inward is specific: you are brought through the south gate into the inner court, and that gate is measured according to an established measure. Access has a shape, and the threshold belongs to the order of the place.
THE ROOT
וַיָּמָד
vayyamad
GROWS FROM
מָדַד
mādad
To measure, determine dimensions.
The verb וַיָּמָד (vayyamad, “he measured”) and the noun מִדּוֹת (middot, “measures”) share this root: the act and its standard belong to the same word-family. The gate is measured in relation to a measure already named, giving the passage inward a defined form.
ALSO GROWS
middot: Measures, dimensions; the plural form used in this verse.
מִדּוֹת
The verse pairs the measuring action with its measures, so the threshold takes its shape from a stated pattern.
middah: Measure, extent, or portion.
מִדָּה
This related form carries the sense of a bounded extent, echoing the gate’s defined dimensions.
וַיְבִיאֵנִי
wayvi'eni
GROWS FROM
בּוֹא
bōʾ
To come, enter, or arrive; in the causative form, to bring or cause to come.
The Hebrew for “brought me” is a causative form of the verb “come” or “enter”: the speaker is caused to arrive inward. The same root names arrival and entry, while the measured gate gives that movement a concrete threshold.
ALSO GROWS
bōʾ: To come, go, enter, or arrive.
בּוֹא
The root beneath “brought” keeps the destination in view: the speaker is brought to an arrival inside the court.
māvoʾ: Entrance, entry, or approach.
מָבוֹא
This noun from the same root connects the bringing inward with the idea of an entrance.
THE PATTERN
The dwelling place is disclosed through measured boundaries, giving its spaces and thresholds a defined form.
And behold a wall on the outside of the house round about, and in the man’s hand a measuring reed of six cubits long by the cubit and an hand breadth: so he measured the breadth of the building, one reed; and the height, one reed.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.And there was given me a reed like unto a rod: and the angel stood, saying, Rise, and measure the temple of God, and the altar, and them that worship therein.THE THREAD
And when the man that had the line in his hand went forth eastward, he measured a thousand cubits, and he brought me through the waters; the waters were to the ankles.The verb translated “measured” is again מָדַד (mādad), the root at work in the gate’s dimensions here. In this verse, measuring accompanies being brought through the waters, so the measured architecture opens into a passage whose depth unfolds.
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