What Does Ezekiel 41:26 Mean in the King James?

And there were narrow windows and palm trees on the one side and on the other side, on the sides of the porch, and upon the side chambers of the house, and thick planks.

Ezekiel 41:26 · KJV

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THE KEY

The temple’s side chambers are called “ribs” in Hebrew, giving this sacred house the architecture of a body.

THE MEANING

The vision shows the house in concrete detail: narrow windows, palms on both sides, and thick planks along the porch and side chambers. The Hebrew word ⁨צֵלָע⁩ (ṣēlāʿ, “rib” or “side”) lets the house’s form read in bodily language.

THE ROOT

צַלְעֵי

ṣalʿê

GROWS FROM

צ־ל־ע

ṣ-l-ʿ

rib; side or flank

“side chambers” in this verse is ṣalʿê. The Hebrew noun ⁨צֵלָע⁩ (ṣēlāʿ, “rib” or “side”) names both a body part and a side of a structure. English makes these chambers sound like ordinary rooms, while the Hebrew gives the temple the body’s own vocabulary for its sides.

ALSO GROWS

ṣēlāʿ: rib; side

צֵלָע

In Genesis 2:22, this noun names the rib taken from the human, revealing the bodily sense carried into the temple description.

ṣəlāʿôt: sides; side chambers

צְלָעוֹת

The plural form names the house’s side spaces, carrying the same rib-and-flank image into its architecture.

THE PATTERN

Scripture gives divine dwelling living form through the language of bodies and the imagery of trees.

And the rib, which the LORD God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man.

Genesis 2:22 · KJVThe word for the human rib shares the Hebrew root used for the house’s side chambers.

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.

1 Kings 6:29 · KJVThe temple walls carry palm trees and flowers, as this verse places palms across the house’s sides.

Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?

1 Corinthians 3:16 · KJVThe temple image is joined directly to human life, extending the bodily language present in the house’s “ribs.”

THE THREAD

And the rib, which the LORD God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man.

Genesis 2:22 · KJV

The Hebrew noun ⁨צֵלָע⁩ (ṣēlāʿ, “rib” or “side”) names the human rib in Genesis and the house’s side spaces here. The shared word lets Ezekiel’s temple architecture carry the language of a body.

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