What Does Ezekiel 41:23 Mean in the King James?

And the temple and the sanctuary had two doors.

Ezekiel 41:23 · 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 set-apart place has doors: its boundary contains a way through.

THE MEANING

What is set apart still has a threshold: the temple and sanctuary each have two doors. The verse holds distinction and approach together, with passage built into the boundary.

WHAT THIS UNDOES

The belief that what is set apart must be completely beyond reach.

THE ROOT

קֹדֶשׁ

qodesh

GROWS FROM

קדש

Q-D-Sh

To set apart or dedicate to sacred use.

KJV “sanctuary” names a place; qodesh also carries the set-apart quality that makes it sacred. Here, that set-apartness is not a blank barrier: the distinct place has doors.

ALSO GROWS

qadash: To set apart or consecrate.

קָדַשׁ

The sanctuary’s name carries the act of being set apart within it.

qadosh: Set apart, sacred.

קָדוֹשׁ

This adjective shares the sanctuary’s root, linking the place to its distinct character.

miqdash: Sanctuary, set-apart place.

מִקְדָּשׁ

This related noun makes the place itself an expression of the same set-apart root.

THE PATTERN

Set-apart space keeps a threshold: its boundary has an opening through which approach is possible.

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 set-apart inner room has doors at its entrance, making its boundary a threshold.

I am the door: by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out, and find pasture.

John 10:9 · KJVThe door becomes the image of a passage into safety and out into provision.

Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me.

Revelation 3:20 · KJVThe boundary has a door that can open into shared presence.

THE THREAD

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 · KJV

The “doors” in both verses use the Hebrew noun ⁨דֶּלֶת⁩ (delet), meaning door. In each, the set-apart inner space has a real threshold, so distinction and passage belong together.

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