to go or come (in a wide variety of applications) · conjunction + verb, qal sequential perfect, 3rd person masculine singular
inward
לִפְנִ֔ימָהlif.Ni.mah
H6441
faceward · preposition + adverb
measured
וַיָּ֥מָדvai.Ya.mod
H4058
properly · conjunction + verb, qal sequential imperfect, 3rd person masculine singular
post
אֵֽיל'eil-
H352
properly · noun, common masculine singular construct
door
הַפֶּ֖תַחha.Pe.tach
H6607
an opening (literally) · definite article + noun, common masculine singular absolute
two
שְׁתַּ֣יִםshe.Ta.yim
H8147
two · cardinal number, feminine dual absolute
cubits
אַמּ֑וֹת'a.Mot
H520
properly · noun, common feminine plural absolute
door
וְהַפֶּ֙תַח֙ve.ha.Pe.tach
H6607
an opening (literally) · conjunction + definite article + noun, common masculine singular absolute
six
שֵׁ֣שׁshesh
H8337
six (as an overplus beyond five or the fingers of the h… · cardinal number, both genders singular construct
cubits
אַמּ֔וֹת'a.Mot
H520
properly · noun, common feminine plural absolute
breadth
וְרֹ֥חַבve.Ro.chav
H7341
width (literally or figuratively) · conjunction + noun, common masculine singular construct
door
הַפֶּ֖תַחha.Pe.tach
H6607
an opening (literally) · definite article + noun, common masculine singular absolute
seven
שֶׁ֥בַעShe.va'
H7651
seven (as the sacred full one) · cardinal number, both genders singular absolute
cubits
אַמּֽוֹת'a.Mot
H520
properly · noun, common feminine plural absolute
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Cross-references
Ezekiel 40:16 And there were narrow windows to the little chambers, and to their posts within the gate round about, and likewise to the arches: and window…
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Commentary
Matthew Henry on Ezekiel 41:1-11
We are still attending a prophet that is under the guidance of an angel, and therefore attend with reverence, though we are often at a loss to know both what this is and what it is to us. Observe here, 1. After the prophet had observed the courts he was at length brought to the temple, Eze 41:1. If we diligently attend to the instructions given us in the plainer parts of religion, and profit by them, we shall be led further into an acquaintance with the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven. Those that are willing to dwell in God's courts shall at length be brought into his temple. Ezekiel was himself a priest, but by the iniquity and calamity of the times was cut short of his birthright privil…
The breadth of the door - This was the door, or gate, of the sanctuary, (see gates 3, in the plan), and this doorway was filled up with folding gates. The measurements are exactly the same as those of Solomon's temple. See Kg1 6:2, Kg1 6:17.
John Gill on Ezekiel 41:3
Then went he inward,.... Through the temple or holy place he had measured, to the holy of holies:
and measured the post of the door two cubits; this was the door into the most holy place; there was one in Solomon's temple; but in the second temple there was none; but two rails instead of it, which were rent at the death of Christ; and two cubits was the thickness of the post, on which this door was shut:
and the door six cubits, and the breadth of the door seven cubits; this door was a two leaved one; each leaf consisted of three cubits broad, and the post in the middle on which they shut one cubit broad, which made seven: though some think that the side walls of the door are meant, as in…
(Vers. 3, 4.) \"And he entered inside (or into the inner court) and measured the front (or threshold) of the gate to be two cubits, and the gate to be six (or ten) cubits, and the width of the gate to be seven cubits (or, the width of the gate from one shoulder to the other being seven cubits on each side). And he measured its (or the doors') length to be twenty cubits and its width to be twenty cubits in front of the temple. And he said to me: This is the Holy of Holies.\ " Let us make progress, for greater progress always opens up for us. After entering the temple, we once again enter inside, or as the Septuagint translated, the inner courtyard, in whose front, or Ael, for which Symmachus, around the gate, Theodotus Aelam, Hebrew Ul (), Aquila door, we interpret the front, there were two cubits. So, according to the higher meaning, we enter by the dual number to that place where the Holy of Holies is located. " And the gate itself was six cubits, through which we entered and obtained eternal rest, which is demonstrated in the number seven. For this reason, the Seventy translated it, and the width of the gate was seven cubits on this side and seven cubits on that side, in Hebrew and other editions only seven cubits were placed in the width of the gate. However, what follows: And its length was measured, or as the Seventy translated it, the doors were twenty cubits, for which in most codices forty are contained according to the Seventy, it also signifies a width of twenty cubits in front of the face of the temple, that which before the face of the temple and its entrance, the measure of past labor and struggle always comes to us. For just as the number two possesses a double relationship in individual numbers, so do the decades have the same relationship. And consider this: entering inward through the gateway of two cubits in width, and having six cubits in depth, and seven cubits in width on each side, and twenty cubits in length, and the same in the very doors of the temple, let it be taught by the prophet what that place is, or by what name it is called. For he said to me: This is the Holy of Holies. But if, as Scripture calls it, it is before the temple, or before the Holy of Holies, how great a blessedness must we think there is in the innermost parts of the temple! Concerning which the prophet speaks: This is labor in my sight, until I enter into the…
The Church Fathers: public-domain translations (Ante-Nicene and Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers), verse-indexed by SermonIndex (CC BY 4.0).
Keil & Delitzsch on Ezekiel 41:1-4
The Inner Space of the Temple (see Plate III B and C)
Eze 41:1. And he led me into the temple, and measured the pillars, six cubits breadth on this side and six cubits breadth on that side, with regard to the breadth of the tent. Eze 41:2. And the breadth of the door was ten cubits; and the shoulders of the door, five cubits on this side, and five cubits on that: and he measured its length, forty cubits; and the breadth, twenty cubits. Eze 41:3. And he went within the measured the pillar of the door, two cubits; and the door, six cubits; and the breadth of the door, seven cubits. Eze 41:4. And he measured its length, twenty cubits; and the breadth, twenty cubits, toward the temple; and said…
The inner room was the Most Holy Place, the only square space within the Temple. It was reached by passing through three openings of decreasing width—access was increasingly restricted as one approached God. The entrance to the entry room was 24½ feet wide (40:48), and the doorway into the sanctuary was 17½ feet wide (41:2), but the entrance to the Most Holy Place was only 10½ feet wide. Ezekiel did not enter the Most Holy Place, but waited outside while the angel went in alone and measured it.
Rashi on Ezekiel 41:3
And he came to the interior to the wall that separated the Heichal from the Holy of Holies.
and measured the pillar of the entrance Its thickness was two cubits. This was not equal to the cubit for the partition.
and the entrance six cubits I cannot explain this except as a reference to its height.
