What Does Ezekiel 41:21 Mean in the King James?

The posts of the temple were squared, and the face of the sanctuary; the appearance of the one as the appearance of the other.

Ezekiel 41:21 · KJV

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THE KEY

The sanctuary’s face matches the temple’s appearance, making the holy place part of one visible, ordered form.

THE MEANING

The temple’s posts are squared, and the sanctuary’s face bears the same appearance as the temple. The holy place comes into view as part of one ordered form: its face and the surrounding house correspond.

THE ROOT

מַרְאֶה

mar’eh

GROWS FROM

ראה

To see, look at, or perceive.

The word translated “appearance” grows from the verb “to see.” The matching forms are presented as something seen: the sanctuary’s face belongs to a shared visible pattern.

ALSO GROWS

ra’ah: To see, look at, or perceive.

רָאָה

This verb is the seed behind “appearance,” tying the sanctuary’s form to the act of seeing it.

mar’eh: Appearance, sight, or vision.

מַרְאֶה

This is the word used here: what is seen, and how the two forms correspond.

ro’eh: One who sees; a seer.

רֹאֶה

This branch names the one who perceives, showing the same root at work in both the visible form and the seeing of it.

THE PATTERN

A visible form can echo the pattern from which it takes its shape.

And look that thou make them after their pattern, which was shewed thee in the mount.

Exodus 25:40 · KJVThe furnishings take their form from a pattern shown before they are made.

Who serve unto the example and shadow of heavenly things, as Moses was admonished of God when he was about to make the tabernacle: for, See, saith he, that thou make all things according to the pattern shewed to thee in the mount.

Hebrews 8:5 · KJVThe visible sanctuary is described as an earthly form shaped by a pattern shown to Moses.

But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.

2 Corinthians 3:18 · KJVThe image seen becomes a form reflected in those who behold it.

THE THREAD

In the visions of God brought he me into the land of Israel, and set me upon a very high mountain, by which was as the frame of a city on the south.

Ezekiel 40:2 · KJV

“Visions” and “appearance” come from the Hebrew root ⁨ראה⁩, “to see.” The matching sanctuary forms in 41:21 belong to a vision in which the structure itself is disclosed to sight.

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