What Does Ezekiel 42:6 Mean in the King James?
For they were in three stories, but had not pillars as the pillars of the courts: therefore the building was straitened more than the lowest and the middlemost from the ground.
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
Hebrew ties “pillars” to “standing”: without what stands, the three-tiered structure itself is narrowed.
THE MEANING
This verse shows you that height alone does not create room: the chambers rise through three stories, yet without pillars like the courts’ their structure is narrowed back from the ground. What supports a structure determines how far its upper parts can extend.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It loosens the belief that greater height automatically means greater capacity: these chambers have three stories, yet their span is reduced because they have no pillars.
THE ROOT
עַמּוּדִים
ʿammudim
GROWS FROM
עמד
ʿ-m-d
To stand, remain, or take a position.
The Hebrew word for “pillars” grows from עמד, “to stand”: the noun names what stands and bears a structure. The verse links the chambers’ reduced span to the absence of that standing support, showing that height alone does not give a building room to extend.
ALSO GROWS
ʿāmad: To stand, remain, take one’s place.
עָמַד
This verb makes the pillar’s function audible: it stands so the structure can hold its form.
maʿamad: A standing place, position, or station.
מַעֲמָד
The same root carries standing into the place one occupies, suggesting how support gives a structure a position from which it can extend.
THE PATTERN
What a structure can extend and endure depends on what stands beneath and bears it.
The earth and all the inhabitants thereof are dissolved: I bear up the pillars of it. Selah.And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell not: for it was founded upon a rock.And when James, Cephas, and John, who seemed to be pillars, perceived the grace that was given unto me, they gave to me and Barnabas the right hands of fellowship; that we should go unto the heathen, and they unto the circumcision.THE THREAD
The earth and all the inhabitants thereof are dissolved: I bear up the pillars of it. Selah.The same Hebrew word, עַמּוּדִים (ʿammudim, pillars), appears in both verses. Ezekiel describes chambers narrowed where pillars are absent; the Psalm names pillars as what bears the earth.
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