What Does Ezekiel 41:10 Mean in the King James?

And between the chambers was the wideness of twenty cubits round about the house on every side.

Ezekiel 41:10 · 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 house’s measured openness is part of its architecture, not leftover space.

THE MEANING

You are shown a house with a measured interval of open space between the chambers and the house: twenty cubits on every side. That space extends around the whole house as part of its design.

THE ROOT

רֹחַב

roḥav

GROWS FROM

רחב

r-ḥ-b

To widen, become broad or spacious.

The noun “wideness” grows from ⁨רחב⁩ (r-ḥ-b), “to widen, become broad,” the same root as ⁨רָחַב⁩ (rāḥab), “to become wide,” and ⁨מֶרְחָב⁩ (merḥav), “a broad, open place.” English presents a measurement; the Hebrew root also carries the widening and the open space it makes, so the twenty cubits describe room around the house.

ALSO GROWS

rāḥab: To become broad or to widen.

רָחַב

This verbal branch shows widening as an action; the house’s broad interval is the space that widening makes.

merḥav: An expanse or spacious place.

מֶרְחָב

Psalm 118:5 uses this branch for the large place into which the speaker is brought, echoing the open width around the house.

THE PATTERN

Scripture makes spaciousness tangible as room built around a house, opened for a tent, and carried within a heart.

I called upon the LORD in distress: the LORD answered me, and set me in a large place.

Psalm 118:5 · KJVThe speaker moves from distress into a large, open place.

Enlarge the place of thy tent, and let them stretch forth the curtains of thine habitations: spare not, lengthen thy cords, and strengthen thy stakes;

Isaiah 54:2 · KJVThe tent is given more room by widening its place and stretching its curtains.

O ye Corinthians, our mouth is open unto you, our heart is enlarged.

2 Corinthians 6:11 · KJVSpaciousness appears within a heart that opens toward others.

THE THREAD

I called upon the LORD in distress: the LORD answered me, and set me in a large place.

Psalm 118:5 · KJV

The Hebrew “wideness,” ⁨רֹחַב⁩ (roḥav), and “large place,” ⁨מֶרְחָב⁩ (merḥav), share the root ⁨רחב⁩ (r-ḥ-b), “to widen, become broad.” In Ezekiel the breadth is measured around the house; in the psalm it is the open place where the speaker finds room.

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