properly · conjunction + verb, qal sequential imperfect, 3rd person masculine singular
porch
אֻלָ֤ם'u.Lam
H197
a vestibule (as bound to the building) · noun, common masculine singular construct
gate
הַשַּׁ֙עַר֙ha.Sha.'ar
H8179
an opening · definite article + noun, common masculine singular absolute
eight
שְׁמֹנֶ֣הshe.mo.Neh
H8083
a cardinal number · cardinal number, both genders singular absolute
cubits
אַמּ֔וֹת'a.Mot
H520
properly · noun, common feminine plural absolute
posts
וְאֵילָ֖יוve.'ei.lov
H352
properly · conjunction + noun, common masculine plural construct + pronominal suffix, 3rd person masculine singular
two
שְׁתַּ֣יִםshe.Ta.yim
H8147
two · cardinal number, feminine dual absolute
cubits
אַמּ֑וֹת'a.Mot
H520
properly · noun, common feminine plural absolute
porch
וְאֻלָ֥םve.'u.Lam
H197
a vestibule (as bound to the building) · conjunction + noun, common masculine singular construct
gate
הַשַּׁ֖עַרha.Sha.'ar
H8179
an opening · definite article + noun, common masculine singular absolute
inward
מֵהַבָּֽיִתme.ha.Ba.yit
H1004
a house (in the greatest variation of applications · preposition + definite article + noun, common masculine singular absolute
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Cross-references
Ezekiel 45:19 And the priest shall take of the blood of the sin offering, and put it upon the posts of the house, and upon the four corners of the settle…
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Commentary
Matthew Henry on Ezekiel 40:5-26
The measuring-reed which was in the hand of the surveyor-general was mentioned before, Eze 40:3. Here we are told (Eze 40:5) what was the exact length of it, which must be observed, because the house was measured by it. It was six cubits long, reckoning, not by the common cubit, but the cubit of the sanctuary, the sacred cubit, by which it was fit that this holy house should be measured, and that was a hand-breadth (that it, four inches) longer than the common cubit: the common cubit was eighteen inches, this twenty-two, see Eze 43:13. Yet some of the critics contend that this measuring-reed was but six common cubits in length, and one handbreadth added to the whole. The former seems more pr…
posts--projecting column-faced fronts of the sides of the doorway, opposite to one another.
Adam Clarke on Ezekiel 40:9
The porch of the gate - See account of the gates in the plan.
John Gill on Ezekiel 40:9
Then measured he the porch of the gate, eight cubits,.... This could not be the length of the porch from gate to gate, or from east to west, as Lipman (z); since there were five cubits between every little chamber; but the breadth of it from north to south, and was four yards and two feet over:
and the posts thereof two cubits; these were columns or pillars placed on each side of the porch, or at the portal of the gate, of two cubits, or a yard and half a foot thick; which, added to the other eight cubits, made the entrance ten cubits, as in Ezekiel 40:11 what these posts, pillars, or columns signify, see on Ezekiel 40:14,
and the porch of the gate was inward; this was the porch of the inw…
And its front was two cubits. But no one comes to that place unless he has held here with a devoted mind love of God and neighbor. Hence it is added: "And its front was two cubits." For the front of the gate is the good merit of the present life. For just as the vestibule within must be understood as eternal rest, so by the front of the gate the quality of visible life must necessarily be signified. Therefore the front of the gate is measured at two cubits, because whoever has striven here to preserve love of God and neighbor will himself reach the court of eternity. Therefore our life, that it may be measured by two cubits, must daily be stretched through charity into love of God and neighbor together. For charity is not true if it has less than two cubits. Hence when Moses expressed the virtues of the elect through the colors of garments, he commanded that twice-dyed scarlet be used in the ornament of the high priest. For what is designated by scarlet except charity, which is always kindled by the flame of love? But scarlet is twice dyed when our charity is inflamed not only from love of God but also of neighbor. For whoever so loves God that he abandons the care of the neighbor entrusted to him, in him the scarlet is still dyed only once. And whoever so loves his neighbor that he diminishes the desire with which he ought to burn toward God, in him the color of the dyeing is not yet doubled. Therefore we must both love those with whom we live and pant with all desires toward him in whom we may truly live. For behold, we who seem clothed in religious habit have come together from the diverse condition of the world to faith and to hearing the word of the almighty Lord, and from dissimilar iniquities we have been gathered into the concord of holy Church, so that what is said of the promise of the Church through Isaiah now seems to have been openly fulfilled: "The wolf shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid." For through the bowels of holy charity the wolf dwells with the lamb, because those who were plunderers in the world rest in peace with the gentle and meek. And the leopard lies down with the kid, because he who was spotted with the stains of his sins consents to be humbled with him who despises himself and confesses himself a sinner. Where it is also added: "The calf and the lion and the sheep shall dwell together,"…
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The Buildings of the East Gate
(See Plate II 1). - Eze 40:6. And he went to the gate, the direction of which was toward the east, and ascended the steps thereof, and measured the threshold of the gate one rod broad, namely, the first threshold one rod broad, Eze 40:7. And the guard-room one rod long and one rod broad, and between the guard-rooms five cubits, and the threshold of the gate by the porch of the gate from the temple hither one rod. Eze 40:8. And he measured the porch of the gate from the temple hither one rod. Eze 40:9. And he measured the porch of the gate eight cubits, and its pillars two cubits; and the porch of the gate was from the temple hither. Eze 40:10. And of the guard-…
Six guard alcoves lined the inside of the gates, three on each side, confirming their defensive significance. These gates were similar in layout to those excavated at Hazor, Megiddo, and Gezer, but substantially larger in size.
Rashi on Ezekiel 40:9
And he measured the hall of the gate eight cubits the length of its protrusion into the Women’s Court.
and its pillars Meselins in Old French, posts, pillars. All the pillars mentioned in this account were sort of round trees made of hewn stone, standing in the entrance, one to the right and one to the left, in place of posts, in place of doorposts, and so did Jonathan render (Isa. 1:4): “And the doorposts (אַמוֹת הַסִפִּים) quaked”: אֵילְמַת סִפּיָא. And they are called אֵילִים because they were round like the terebinth and like the oak (וְכָאַלוֹן כָאֵלָה).
and its pillars two cubits in diameter. They were standing at the end of the hall space, this one attached to the right wall and thi…
