What Does Ezekiel 42:9 Mean in the King James?
And from under these chambers was the entry on the east side, as one goeth into them from the utter court.
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 Hebrew uses the same root for “entry” and “goeth into”: the threshold and the act of arriving belong to one word-family.
THE MEANING
The entrance sits beneath the chambers on the east, approached from the outer court. The verse gives the movement inward a place and a direction. What lies within is reached by a defined passage from outside.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
That what lies within is inaccessible from the outer court; the verse names an entry from it.
THE ROOT
הַמָּבוֹא
hamavo
GROWS FROM
בוא
to come, enter
“entry / goeth into” in this verse is hamavo. The Hebrew repeats בוא (bo, “come, enter”): מָבוֹא (mavo, “entry”) names the entrance, while בְּבֹאוֹ (bevo’o, “as one enters”) names the movement through it. English renders one as a thing and the other as an action, while the Hebrew holds both in one root: the entrance is the place of coming in.
ALSO GROWS
mavo: entrance, entry
מָבוֹא
The threshold is named from the same root as arriving, joining the place of entry to the act of coming in.
bevo'o: as one comes or enters
בְּבֹאוֹ
This form appears in the same verse as “goeth into,” repeating the root in the movement through the entry.
הַמִּזְרָח
hamizrach
GROWS FROM
זרח
to rise, shine forth
מִזְרָח (mizrach, “east”) comes from זרח (zarach, “rise, shine”). The word adds the image of rising light to the entrance’s precise orientation, while the verse still describes an actual east-side entry.
ALSO GROWS
mizrach: east; the direction of sunrise
מִזְרָח
It names the side where the verse places the entrance.
zarach: to rise, shine
זָרַח
This verb shares the root and reveals the rising-light image held in the word for east.
THE PATTERN
A passage into an inward space has a named threshold and a direction of approach.
And it came to pass, as Moses entered into the tabernacle, the cloudy pillar descended, and stood at the door of the tabernacle, and the LORD talked with Moses.Lift up your heads, O ye gates; and be ye lift up, ye everlasting doors; and the King of glory shall come 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, behold, the glory of the God of Israel came from the way of the east: and his voice was like a noise of many waters: and the earth shined with his glory.“Came” is בָּא (ba, “came”), from בוא (bo, “come, enter”), the same root that gives Ezekiel 42:9 its “entry” and “goeth into.” The eastern threshold in this verse is followed by the glory arriving from the east, turning the architectural detail into movement.
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