What Does Ezekiel 46:22 Mean in the King James?
In the four corners of the court there were courts joined of forty cubits long and thirty broad: these four corners were of one measure.
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
One shared measure makes the four corner courts a single ordered space.
THE MEANING
Each corner holds a joined court, and all four share the same dimensions. The verse presents the whole enclosure as one measured arrangement, with no corner shaped by a different plan.
THE ROOT
מִדָּה
middah
GROWS FROM
מדד
מדד (madad) means to measure or measure out.
English can make this sound like a list of quantities, but the Hebrew says there is one measure for all four courts. Their equal dimensions belong to the design itself.
ALSO GROWS
madad: to measure or measure out
מָדַד
The verb names the act behind the courts’ stated dimensions.
middah: measure or dimension
מִדָּה
The noun appears in the verse’s phrase “one measure,” explicitly shared by all four courts.
THE PATTERN
Sacred space is given a measured form, and its proportions make the whole design visible.
And the house which king Solomon built for the LORD, the length thereof was threescore cubits, and the breadth thereof twenty cubits, and the height thereof thirty cubits.And the city lieth foursquare, and the length is as large as the breadth: and he measured the city with the reed, twelve thousand furlongs. The length and the breadth and the height of it are equal.THE THREAD
And behold a wall on the outside of the house round about, and in the man’s hand a measuring reed of six cubits long by the cubit and an hand breadth: so he measured the breadth of the building, one reed; and the height, one reed.The “measuring reed” uses the same Hebrew measure word as “one measure” in this verse. The shared root links the equal corner courts to the measured form of the building as a whole.
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