What Does Ezekiel 41:2 Mean in the King James?

And the breadth of the door was ten cubits; and the sides of the door were five cubits on the one side, and five cubits on the other side: and he measured the length thereof, forty cubits: and the breadth, twenty cubits.

Ezekiel 41:2 · KJV

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This verse in the Selah Decoded Version

THE KEY

The doorway is measured as part of the sacred room, so access belongs to the design of the space.

THE MEANING

The entrance has its own measured width, with five cubits on each side, while the room has its own length and breadth. The opening and the chamber have distinct proportions, yet both belong to one measured space. Access and spaciousness come into view together.

WHAT THIS UNDOES

The entrance is an incidental gap, separate from the sacred space; here it is measured alongside the room’s dimensions.

THE ROOT

פֶּתַח

petach

GROWS FROM

פתח

To open or unfasten.

“door” in this verse is petach. The Hebrew word for this doorway belongs to the root for opening. The entrance is not just an object in the wall; it is the opening made in what encloses the room, and the verse gives that opening its own measure.

ALSO GROWS

patach: To open or unfasten.

פָּתַח

The doorway is named from the action of opening: it is access made in the room’s enclosing boundary.

petach: An opening or entrance.

פֶּתַח

The same root names both the act of opening and the passage it creates; here that passage has a measured width.

רֹחַב

rochav

GROWS FROM

רחב

To be wide or spacious.

The room’s breadth comes from a word family that names spaciousness. English gives the dimension as a number; the Hebrew also carries the sense of room to open out.

ALSO GROWS

rachav: To become wide or widen.

רָחַב

The room’s breadth shares its root with the action of widening.

merchav: An open space or expanse.

מֶרְחָב

This branch names breadth as roominess, giving the chamber’s measured width a sense of open space.

THE PATTERN

Sacred space is shown through measured boundaries and deliberately formed ways of entry.

And thou shalt make an hanging for the door of the tent, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, wrought with needlework.

Exodus 26:36 · KJVThe entrance to the tent is given a shaped, worked covering as part of the dwelling’s design.

And for the entering of the oracle he made doors of olive tree: the lintel and side posts were a fifth part of the wall.

1 Kings 6:31 · KJVThe oracle’s doorway is integrated into the wall’s measured proportion.

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 wall are included together in a single act of measurement, joining access with the space it enters.

THE THREAD

If thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted? and if thou doest not well, sin lieth at the door. And unto thee shall be his desire, and thou shalt rule over him.

Genesis 4:7 · KJV

“At the door” uses petach (⁨פֶּתַח⁩, opening), the same word used for the measured entrance here. The shared word makes the doorway a charged boundary: an opening is where what is within and without meet.

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