What Does Ezekiel 41:24 Mean in the King James?
And the doors had two leaves apiece, two turning leaves; two leaves for the one door, and two leaves for the other door.
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 entrance is built from paired leaves that turn, so the boundary itself is designed for movement.
THE MEANING
Each doorway has two leaves, and those leaves turn. The boundary of the entrance is movable; passage is built into its design.
THE ROOT
מוּסַבּוֹת
musabbot
GROWS FROM
סבב
To turn around, go around, or surround.
The word rendered “turning” comes from סבב (sabab, to turn or go around), describing the doors by their motion. The same root also means “around,” connecting a leaf rotating on its hinge with the wider image of a boundary that surrounds.
ALSO GROWS
saviv: Around; all around.
סָבִיב
The root’s sense of going around also describes what surrounds a space, linking the turning leaf to the boundary it forms.
sovev: Turning; going around.
סוֹבֵב
This verbal form makes the shared motion clear: the door leaf turns as it opens.
THE PATTERN
A threshold becomes an entrance when its boundary is made to move.
As the door turneth upon his hinges, so doth the slothful upon his bed.Lift up your heads, O ye gates; and be ye lift up, ye everlasting doors; and the King of glory shall come in.I know thy works: behold, I have set before thee an open door, and no man can shut it: for thou hast a little strength, and hast kept my word, and hast not denied my name.THE THREAD
As the door turneth upon his hinges, so doth the slothful upon his bed.Proverbs uses the same root, סבב (sabab, to turn or go around), for a door turning on its hinge. Ezekiel names the paired turning leaves; Proverbs makes their hinge-motion vivid.
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