King James Version
Ezekiel 41:18 in the King James Version says “And it was made with cherubims and palm trees, so that a palm tree was between a cherub and a cherub; and every cherub h...” — study this verse from Ezekiel chapter 41 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“And it was made with cherubims and palm trees, so that a palm tree was between a cherub and a cherub; and every cherub had two faces;”
Ezekiel 41:18 · KJV
The door posts, and the narrow windows, and the galleries round about on their three stories, over against the door, cieled with wood round about, and from the ground up to the windows, and the windows were covered; cieled: Heb. cieling of wood and from: or, and the ground unto the windows
To that above the door, even unto the inner house, and without, and by all the wall round about within and without, by measure. measure: Heb. measures
And it was made with cherubims and palm trees, so that a palm tree was between a cherub and a cherub; and every cherub had two faces;
So that the face of a man was toward the palm tree on the one side, and the face of a young lion toward the palm tree on the other side: it was made through all the house round about.
From the ground unto above the door were cherubims and palm trees made, and on the wall of the temple.
KJV Study — Public Domain
between (repeated before each noun, often with other particles); also as a conjunction, either...or
“faces”
H6440the face (as the part that turns); used in a great variety of applications (literally and figuratively); also (with prepositional prefix) as a preposi
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