What Does Ezekiel 40:49 Mean in the King James?

The length of the porch was twenty cubits, and the breadth eleven cubits; and he brought me by the steps whereby they went up to it: and there were pillars by the posts, one on this side, and another on that side.

Ezekiel 40:49 · KJV

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THE KEY

The entrance is shaped as an ascent held by pillars: approach means both rising and being supported.

THE MEANING

You meet the house through a measured porch, steps rising toward it, and pillars standing on either side. Entry takes shape as both ascent and supported threshold, a passage with clear dimensions.

THE ROOT

מַעֲלוֹת

maʿalot

GROWS FROM

עלה

ʿ-l-h

To go up, rise, ascend.

English names the stairway; the Hebrew word carries the movement of ascent within it. The same root also gives words for ascent and for an offering that rises, placing these steps within a wider image of upward movement.

ALSO GROWS

ʿaliyah: Ascent, going up.

עֲלִיָּה

It makes explicit the upward movement already held inside the word for steps.

ʿolah: Burnt offering, literally an offering that rises.

עֹלָה

It shares the ascent-root and links upward movement with what rises toward the sacred.

THE PATTERN

Approach to divine presence is repeatedly pictured as an ascent toward a defined 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.

Genesis 28:12 · KJVA ladder makes the movement between earth and heaven visible as a passage of ascent and descent.

Who shall ascend into the hill of the LORD? or who shall stand in his holy place?

Psalm 24:3 · KJVThe approach to the LORD is expressed as ascending toward a place where one stands.

And he saith unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Hereafter ye shall see heaven open, and the angels of God ascending and descending upon the Son of man.

John 1:51 · KJVThe opened heaven repeats the image of passage between above and below through ascending and descending.

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.

Genesis 28:12 · KJV

The Hebrew behind “ascending” shares its root with the word for “steps” here: both carry the sense of going up. Ezekiel’s measured stairs and Jacob’s ladder reveal the same image of approach as a rising passage.

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