What Does Ezekiel 41:3 Mean in the King James?
Then went he inward, and measured the post of the door, two cubits; and the door, six cubits; and the breadth of the door, seven cubits.
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 way inward is not an abstract plunge: even its doorway has a measurable breadth.
THE MEANING
You meet the inward passage as something shaped and measurable: a post, a door, and a breadth are named. The entrance into the inner space has a real boundary, and its width is made visible.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The belief that inward depth is vague and boundless is undone: the way inward has a post, an opening, and a measured breadth.
THE ROOT
פֶּתַח
petaḥ
GROWS FROM
פתח
To open; to make an opening.
The word translated “door” carries the sense of an opening. English names the object, while the root also holds the action that makes passage possible.
ALSO GROWS
pātaḥ: To open.
פָּתַח
The verb gives the doorway its action: it is an opening made passable.
maphtēaḥ: Key; an opener.
מַפְתֵּחַ
This branch also grows from opening, showing how the doorway is defined by the passage it allows.
רֹחַב
roḥav
GROWS FROM
רחב
To be broad; to make room.
English makes “breadth” sound like a bare dimension, but this root also carries the sense of room and spaciousness. The doorway’s width is not only counted; it is language for the space available to pass through.
ALSO GROWS
raḥav: Broad; wide.
רָחָב
The adjective makes the opening’s measured width part of the same language of spaciousness.
Reḥovot: Broad places; room.
רְחֹבוֹת
This name shares the root of “breadth” and connects the doorway’s width with the language of making room.
THE PATTERN
A threshold gives passage a shape: it has an opening, a boundary, and a way through.
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.Open ye the gates, that the righteous nation which keepeth the truth may enter in.I am the door: by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out, and find pasture.THE THREAD
And he removed from thence, and digged another well; and for that they strove not: and he called the name of it Rehoboth; and he said, For now the LORD hath made room for us, and we shall be fruitful in the land.The doorway’s breadth comes from רחב (raḥav, “to be broad; make room”), the same root in רְחֹבוֹת (Reḥovot, “broad places”). The measured opening therefore carries the language of spaciousness: inward passage is given room.
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