What Does Ezekiel 8:7 Mean in the King James?

And he brought me to the door of the court; and when I looked, behold a hole in the wall.

Ezekiel 8:7 · KJV

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

What looks like a wall can contain an opening; seeing it changes a boundary into a threshold.

THE MEANING

You can stand before what appears closed and still find a way to see into what it conceals. One small opening changes the wall from an opaque surface into a threshold.

WHAT THIS UNDOES

A closed-looking boundary is always sealed.

THE ROOT

פֶּתַח

petaḥ

GROWS FROM

פתח

p-t-ḥ

To open; to make an entrance.

The court’s door is an opening, from the same root as the verb “to open.” The verse then places a hole in the wall beyond that first entrance: noticing an opening reveals access where the surface seemed closed.

ALSO GROWS

pātaḥ: To open, loosen, or unfasten.

פָּתַח

The verb names the action carried by the doorway: a boundary becomes passable when it opens.

maphtēaḥ: Key.

מַפְתֵּחַ

A key belongs to the same opening-root, linking access with the means that unlocks a closed place.

petaḥ: Entrance, doorway, or opening.

פֶּתַח

This noun names the court’s door here and the newly exposed door in the next verse.

THE PATTERN

A concealed interior becomes visible when an opening in the boundary is noticed.

My beloved put in his hand by the hole of the door, and my bowels were moved for him.

Song of Solomon 5:4 · KJVThe same Hebrew noun for “hole” appears here: an opening in a door becomes the place where a hand reaches through.

Can any hide himself in secret places that I shall not see him? saith the LORD. Do not I fill heaven and earth? saith the LORD.

Jeremiah 23:24 · KJVWhat is hidden in a secret place remains visible to the one whose sight reaches beyond its enclosure.

Neither is there any creature that is not manifest in his sight: but all things are naked and opened unto the eyes of him with whom we have to do.

Hebrews 4:13 · KJVWhat seems concealed stands open to a sight before which nothing remains hidden.

THE THREAD

Then said he unto me, Son of man, dig now in the wall: and when I had digged in the wall, behold a door.

Ezekiel 8:8 · KJV

The same Hebrew noun ⁨פֶּתַח⁩ (petaḥ, “doorway” or “opening”) names the court’s door in verse 7 and the door uncovered in verse 8. Verse 7 notices a hole in the wall; verse 8 reveals that the opening leads to an entrance.

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