What Does Ezekiel 40:35 Mean in the King James?
And he brought me to the north gate, and measured it 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 side whose Hebrew name is linked with what is hidden is not left unknowable: you are brought to its gate, and its dimensions are made visible.
THE MEANING
You are led to a particular threshold in the dwelling, and its dimensions are measured by an established pattern. Access takes concrete form: the gate has a location and proportions that can be seen.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
This undoes the belief that what is sacred must remain too hidden to approach or understand: the vision brings you to the gate and lets it be measured.
THE ROOT
צָפוֹן
tsafon
GROWS FROM
צפן
To hide, conceal, or store away.
The Hebrew word for north is associated with the root for hiding or storing something away. That connection adds a hint of concealment to this named side, while the verse makes its gate and dimensions visible.
ALSO GROWS
tsaphan: To hide or store away.
צָפַן
This verb carries the root’s active sense: something is concealed or kept in reserve.
tsafun: Hidden, concealed, or stored away.
צָפוּן
This form names the state of being out of sight, echoing the north gate’s name.
וַיְבִאֵנִי
wayvi'eni
GROWS FROM
בוא
To come or enter; in the causative form, to cause someone to come or bring them.
The verb presents you as being brought into the presence of the threshold, not merely shown it from afar. Its root also produces a word for an entrance, joining the movement toward a place with the opening reached.
ALSO GROWS
boʾ: To come or enter.
בּוֹא
The root’s basic sense is movement into a place, illuminating the approach to the gate.
mavoʾ: An entrance or approach.
מָבוֹא
This branch names a way in, connecting the act of being brought to the gate with the threshold itself.
THE PATTERN
Restoration becomes visible through named thresholds and measured space.
And he brought me thither, and, behold, there was a man, whose appearance was like the appearance of brass, with a line of flax in his hand, and a measuring reed; and he stood in the gate.I lifted up mine eyes again, and looked, and behold a man with a measuring line in his hand.And he that talked with me had a golden reed to measure the city, and the gates thereof, and the wall thereof.THE THREAD
Open to me the gates of righteousness: I will go into them, and I will praise the LORD:In Ezekiel 40:35, the guide’s verb comes from בוא (boʾ, to come or enter), in a form meaning to bring someone. Psalm 118:19 uses the same root for “I will go into them,” connecting the measured threshold with the movement of entering through it.
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