What Does Ezekiel 42:7 Mean in the King James?
And the wall that was without over against the chambers, toward the utter court on the forepart of the chambers, the length thereof was fifty 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 word for wall also carries the act of walling in, and elsewhere names the one who repairs a breach.
THE MEANING
The verse holds two spaces in relation: chambers on one side, the outer court beyond them, with a wall standing across the front. Its length is counted as fifty cubits; the dividing line belongs to the design as much as the rooms do.
THE ROOT
גָּדֵר
gader
GROWS FROM
ג־ד־ר
To wall in, fence, or enclose
The word for wall belongs to the root גדר, meaning to wall in or enclose. Its branch גֹּדֵר, “one who walls or repairs,” appears in Isaiah’s phrase “repairer of the breach,” so the same root names both a boundary and its mending.
ALSO GROWS
gadar: To wall in, fence, or enclose
גָּדַר
This verb names the action held in the verse’s wall: enclosing and defining a space.
goder: One who walls or repairs; a repairer
גֹּדֵר
Isaiah uses this form for the “repairer of the breach,” showing how the same root can name the mending of a boundary.
gederah: A fence or enclosure
גְּדֵרָה
This related noun makes visible the root’s movement from the act of enclosing to the bounded space itself.
THE PATTERN
A boundary gives a space definition, and when it breaks, restoration begins by rebuilding it.
Why hast thou then broken down her hedges, so that all they which pass by the way do pluck her?And they that shall be of thee shall build the old waste places: thou shalt raise up the foundations of many generations; and thou shalt be called, The repairer of the breach, The restorer of paths to dwell in.And had a wall great and high, and had twelve gates, and at the gates twelve angels, and names written thereon, which are the names of the twelve tribes of the children of Israel:THE THREAD
And they that shall be of thee shall build the old waste places: thou shalt raise up the foundations of many generations; and thou shalt be called, The repairer of the breach, The restorer of paths to dwell in.The wall outside the chambers and the “repairer of the breach” share גדר, the root of walling and enclosing. Ezekiel gives the boundary its measured form; Isaiah shows the same root at work where that boundary has opened and needs repair.
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