What Does Ezekiel 40:8 Mean in the King James?

He measured also the porch of the gate within, one reed.

Ezekiel 40:8 · KJV

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 porch has its own measure: even the threshold belongs to the house’s defined shape.

THE MEANING

The inner porch measures one reed. The entrance’s interior space has a dimension of its own; the passage into the house is part of its measured design.

THE ROOT

וַיָּמָד

wayyāmad

GROWS FROM

מָדַד

to measure or measure out

“measured” in this verse is wayyāmad. The Hebrew measure-family names both the act of measuring and the dimension established by it. Here, the porch is not an unmeasured gap: its one-reed span gives the inward threshold a definite place in the house’s form.

ALSO GROWS

middah: measure, dimension, extent

מִדָּה

This noun names the dimension itself, showing the link between the act of measuring and the shape it establishes.

mad: garment or clothing

מַד

The measure-family can also name a garment fitted to a body’s dimensions; here it names the defined span of a space.

THE PATTERN

The approach and enclosure of a sacred dwelling are given explicit measure, so the way inward has a defined form.

And the porch before the temple of the house, twenty cubits was the length thereof, according to the breadth of the house; and ten cubits was the breadth thereof before the house.

1 Kings 6:3 · KJVThe temple’s porch, like Ezekiel’s inner porch, is given dimensions as part of the house’s design.

And he that talked with me had a golden reed to measure the city, and the gates thereof, and the wall thereof.

Revelation 21:15 · KJVThe city’s gates and boundary are measured, giving the way into the city a defined place within its form.

THE THREAD

Thou son of man, shew the house to the house of Israel, that they may be ashamed of their iniquities: and let them measure the pattern.

Ezekiel 43:10 · KJV

The same root, ⁨מָדַד⁩ (madad), meaning “to measure,” appears in the call to measure the house’s pattern. The one-reed porch is a small part of a form whose proportions can be seen and measured.

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