What Does Ezekiel 41:1 Mean in the King James?
Afterward he brought me to the temple, and measured the posts, six cubits broad on the one side, and six cubits broad on the other side, which was the breadth of the tabernacle.
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 temple’s measured breadth uses the same root that names a spacious place, making room itself part of the architecture.
THE MEANING
You are shown a dwelling whose breadth is measured on both sides. The repeated six-cubit spans give its space visible boundaries, while the word for breadth also carries the sense of spaciousness. Here, dimension and roominess meet in one word.
THE ROOT
רֹחַב
roḥav
GROWS FROM
ר־ח־ב
r-ḥ-b
To be wide or spacious; to make room.
The word translated “broad” belongs to the same root as words for an open expanse and a public square. English gives you a dimension; the Hebrew also lets you hear spaciousness in it.
ALSO GROWS
merḥav: A wide or open place.
מֶרְחָב
The same root names a place where there is room; Psalm 118:5 uses this word for the “large place” where the speaker is set.
reḥov: A broad street or public square.
רְחוֹב
The root also describes an open area shared by many, extending breadth from a measured span to a place people can occupy.
THE PATTERN
Scripture makes dwelling visible through space given shape, dimension, or room.
Moreover thou shalt make the tabernacle with ten curtains of fine twined linen, and blue, and purple, and scarlet: with cherubims of cunning work shalt thou make them.And the house which king Solomon built for the LORD, the length thereof was threescore cubits, and the breadth thereof twenty cubits, and the height thereof thirty cubits.In my Father’s house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.THE THREAD
I called upon the LORD in distress: the LORD answered me, and set me in a large place.The word translated “broad” here (רֹחַב, roḥav: breadth or spaciousness) and the “large place” in the psalm (מֶרְחָב, merḥav: open space) grow from the same root, ר־ח־ב (r-ḥ-b). The shared root lets the temple’s measured width echo a spaciousness experienced as room to stand.
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