Ezekiel 42:2 KJV

Before the length of an hundred cubits was the north door, and the breadth was fifty cubits.

Words Then and Now

What these words mean in the King James Bible, and where you’ll still hear them today.

Matthew Henry

  • Ezekiel 42:1–20In this chapter are described the priests' chambers, their use, and the dimensions of the holy mount on which the temple stood. These chambers were many....

Parallel Passages

  • Ezekiel 41:1 Afterward he brought me to the temple, and measured the posts, six cubits broad on the one side, and six cubits broad on the other side, which was the breadth of the tabernacle.

From Thompson’s Chain-Reference Bible (1908).

Cross References

  • Ezekiel 41:13 So he measured the house, an hundred cubits long; and the separate place, and the building, with the walls thereof, an hundred cubits long;

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Topics

  • Ezekiel Of a man with measuring line

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Hebrew and Strong’s

  • Before אֶל ʾel Preposition פְּנֵי pĕnê פָּנִים Noun · masculine or feminine plural construct
  • the length אֹרֶךְ ʾōrek אֹרֶךְ Noun · masculine singular
  • of an hundred הַמֵּאָה hammēʾâ מֵאָה Number · masculine or feminine singular · with the
  • cubits אַמּוֹת ʾammôt אַמָּה Noun · feminine plural construct
  • the north הַצָּפוֹן haṣṣāpôn צָפוֹן Noun · feminine singular · with the
  • door פֶּתַח petaḥ פֶּתַח Noun · masculine singular construct
  • and the breadth וְהָרֹחַב wĕhārōḥab רֹחַב Noun · masculine singular · with and, the
  • fifty חֲמִשִּׁים ḥămiššîm חֲמִשִּׁים Number · masculine or feminine plural
  • cubits אַמּוֹת ʾammôt אַמָּה Noun · feminine plural

Hebrew: Westminster Leningrad Codex, Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible · CC BY 4.0

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