What Does Ezekiel 41:20 Mean in the King James?
From the ground unto above the door were cherubims and palm trees made, and on the wall of the temple.
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 doorway is framed by images that rise from the ground, making the threshold part of the temple’s living design.
THE MEANING
The wall holds cherubim and palms from ground level to above the doorway, bringing heavenly figures and living tree forms across the whole threshold. Sacred space meets the reader as an opening framed by images of presence and life.
THE ROOT
פֶּתַח
petaḥ
GROWS FROM
פתח
p-t-ḥ
To open; an opening or entrance.
“door” in this verse is petaḥ. The word for the doorway grows from the same root as the verb “to open.” A related word means “engraving” or “carved work,” joining the passage through the wall to the images made upon it.
ALSO GROWS
pataḥ: To open.
פָּתַח
The doorway is not only a feature in the wall; its word carries the action of opening.
pittuach: Engraving or carved work.
פִּתּוּחַ
The same root also names carved ornament, connecting the opening with the imagery that surrounds it.
תִּמֹרִים
timorim
GROWS FROM
תמר
t-m-r
Palm or date palm.
“palm trees” in this verse is timorim. The palm motif is named with a word for a living, fruit-bearing tree. Its image places growth alongside the cherubim across the temple wall.
ALSO GROWS
tomer: Palm trunk or palm form.
תֹּמֶר
The related word keeps the image’s upright tree form in view.
tamar: Date palm; also a personal name meaning “palm.”
תָּמָר
The same word can name a person, carrying the palm’s nature in the name.
THE PATTERN
Sacred space carries signs of heavenly presence and life-bearing abundance.
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 he carved all the walls of the house round about with carved figures of cherubims and palm trees and open flowers, within and without.In the midst of the street of it, and on either side of the river, was there the tree of life, which bare twelve manner of fruits, and yielded her fruit every month: and the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations.THE THREAD
Open to me the gates of righteousness: I will go into them, and I will praise the LORD:The doorway here and the Psalm’s command “Open” share the Hebrew root פתח (p-t-ḥ), meaning “to open.” Ezekiel frames the opening with cherubim and palms; the Psalm describes passing through opened gates.
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