What Does Ezekiel 41:14 Mean in the King James?

Also the breadth of the face of the house, and of the separate place toward the east, an hundred cubits.

Ezekiel 41:14 · 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 Hebrew word for the house’s “breadth” shares its root with the word for an open square, so this measure carries spaciousness inside its geometry.

THE MEANING

The verse measures the breadth of the house’s face and the separate place toward the east at one hundred cubits. The shared measure holds the building and its eastern precinct within one architectural reach.

THE ROOT

רֹחַב

rōḥav

GROWS FROM

רחב

r-ḥ-b

To widen or be spacious.

English gives one architectural term, but Hebrew ⁨רחב⁩ (r-ḥ-b, “to widen; be spacious”) also grows into the word for an open square. The hundred-cubit measurement therefore echoes a wider sense of breadth as space opened out.

ALSO GROWS

rāḥav: Broad, wide, spacious.

רָחָב

This adjective shares the root and makes the verse’s measured breadth part of a wider Hebrew language of spaciousness.

reḥov: An open square or street.

רְחֹב

This branch extends breadth from a building’s dimension to an open place, showing what the same root can name beyond architecture.

THE PATTERN

Sacred space becomes legible through measured proportions: its breadth and boundaries are given definite form.

The length of the court shall be an hundred cubits, and the breadth fifty every where, and the height five cubits of fine twined linen, and their sockets of brass.

Exodus 27:18 · KJVThe court surrounding the sacred space is defined by measured length, breadth, and height.

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.

1 Kings 6:2 · KJVThe house is made legible through its exact proportions, including its breadth.

And the city lieth foursquare, and the length is as large as the breadth: and he measured the city with the reed, twelve thousand furlongs. The length and the breadth and the height of it are equal.

Revelation 21:16 · KJVThe measured city carries sacred architecture into a vision where its dimensions are named and balanced.

THE THREAD

He brought me forth also into a large place; he delivered me, because he delighted in me.

Psalm 18:19 · KJV

Ezekiel’s ⁨רֹחַב⁩ (rōḥav, “breadth”) and the psalm’s ⁨מֶרְחָב⁩ (merḥav, “wide place”) share the root ⁨רחב⁩ (r-ḥ-b, “to widen; be spacious”). Here the root measures a house; there it names the spacious place into which the speaker is brought.

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