King James Version
Ezekiel 42:4 in the King James Version says “And before the chambers was a walk of ten cubits breadth inward, a way of one cubit; and their doors toward the north.” — study this verse from Ezekiel chapter 42 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“And before the chambers was a walk of ten cubits breadth inward, a way of one cubit; and their doors toward the north.”
Ezekiel 42:4 · KJV
Before the length of an hundred cubits was the north door, and the breadth was fifty cubits.
Over against the twenty cubits which were for the inner court, and over against the pavement which was for the utter court, was gallery against gallery in three stories.
And before the chambers was a walk of ten cubits breadth inward, a way of one cubit; and their doors toward the north.
Now the upper chambers were shorter: for the galleries were higher than these, than the lower, and than the middlemost of the building. were higher: or, did eat of these than the lower: or, and the building consisted of the lower and the middlemost
For they were in three stories, but had not pillars as the pillars of the courts: therefore the building was straitened more than the lowest and the middlemost from the ground.
KJV Study — Public Domain
“And before”
H6440the face (as the part that turns); used in a great variety of applications (literally and figuratively); also (with prepositional prefix) as a preposi
“the chambers”
H3957a room in a building (whether for storage, eating, or lodging)
“cubit”
H520properly, a mother (i.e., unit of measure, or the fore-arm (below the elbow), i.e., a cubit; also a door-base (as a bond of the entrance)
“a way”
H1870a road (as trodden); figuratively, a course of life or mode of action, often adverb
“cubit”
H520properly, a mother (i.e., unit of measure, or the fore-arm (below the elbow), i.e., a cubit; also a door-base (as a bond of the entrance)
“and their doors”
H6607an opening (literally), i.e., door (gate) or entrance way
“toward the north”
H6828properly, hidden, i.e., dark; used only of the north as a quarter (gloomy and unknown)
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