Ezekiel Chapter 40 verse 30 Holy Bible
And there were arches round about, five and twenty cubits long, and five cubits broad.
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And there were windows in it and in the covered way all round: it was fifty cubits long and twenty-five cubits wide.
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And there were projections round about, twenty-five cubits long, and five cubits broad.
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And the arches round about were five and twenty cubits long, and five cubits broad.
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There were arches round about, twenty-five cubits long, and five cubits broad.
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As to the arches all round about, the length `is' five and twenty cubits, and the breadth five cubits;
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Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(30) The arches round about.--This word, as already noted under Ezekiel 40:16, should be projections of the walls, if it has been correctly pointed by the Masorets; but it is exceedingly difficult to understand what is meant by the dimensions given, twenty-five cubits long and five cubits broad. This statement occurs nowhere else in the description of the gates, and the verse is omitted in the Greek translation, and either considered spurious or else passed over in silence by many commentators. One explanation given is that the twenty-five cubits is the sum-total of all the "projections of the walls" into the interior of the gateway. thus there were two "spaces" (S on the plan [Ezekiel 40:44-49]), each of five cubits; two thresholds (TT? [Ezekiel 40:44-49]), each of six cubits; and two walls of the porch, each of one cubit, or in all (5 ? 2+6 ? 2 + 2) twenty-four cubits, the remaining cubit being made up by mouldings at the angles of these several projections. But it is fatal to this explanation that in no other case is any measurement thus made up by adding together the details of parts which do not adjoin. The same explanation requires the breadth of five cubits to be the transverse measurement of these projecting parts, which certainly could not apply to the first threshold, and would require a very awkward or even impossible narrowing of the gateway where the "spaces" are placed. The true solution of the difficulty seems to be in a slight change in the vowels of the Masoretic punctuation, which will transform the word into "porch." That porches were connected with the inner gates also is plain from Ezekiel 40:39, yet they are nowhere mentioned in the description unless here. Being a somewhat independent part of the gate, the measures are taken in a different direction from that of the gate itself. The "length" is the long way of the porch, just as long as the gateway is wide, twenty-five cubits; and the breadth is the measurement between the walls, five cubits, thus allowing a half-cubit for the thickness of each wall, and one cubit less clear space than in the outer gates.Parallel Commentaries ...Hebrew(There were porticoesוְאֵֽלַמּ֖וֹת (wə·’ê·lam·mō·wṯ)Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine pluralStrong's 361: A pillar-space, a paleall around,סָבִ֣יב ׀ (sā·ḇîḇ)AdverbStrong's 5439: A circle, neighbour, environs, aroundtwenty-fiveוְעֶשְׂרִים֙ (wə·‘eś·rîm)Conjunctive waw | Number - common pluralStrong's 6242: Twenty, twentiethcubitsאַמָּ֔ה (’am·māh)Noun - feminine singularStrong's 520: A mother, a cubit, a door-baselongאֹ֗רֶךְ (’ō·reḵ)Noun - masculine singularStrong's 753: Lengthand fiveחָמֵ֥שׁ (ḥā·mêš)Number - feminine singularStrong's 2568: Fivecubitsאַמּֽוֹת׃ (’am·mō·wṯ)Noun - feminine pluralStrong's 520: A mother, a cubit, a door-basewide.)וְרֹ֖חַב (wə·rō·ḥaḇ)Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine singularStrong's 7341: Breadth, widthJump to PreviousArches Broad Court Covered Cubits Deep Fifty Five Gateways Inner Length Porches Porticoes Projections Round Twenty Twenty-Five Way Wide Windows
