Ezekiel 41 · Verse 16

Ezekiel 41:16

The door posts, and the narrow windows, and the galleries round about on their three stories, over against the door, cieled with wood round about, and from the ground up to the windows, and the windows were covered;
Ezekiel 41:16, King James Version

Ezekiel 41:16 in other translations

BSBas well as the thresholds and the beveled windows and the galleries all around with their three levels opposite the threshold, were overlaid with wood on all sides. They were paneled from the ground to the windows, and the windows were covered.
WEBthe thresholds, and the closed windows, and the galleries around on their three stories, opposite the threshold, with wood ceilings all around, and from the ground up to the windows, (now the windows were covered),
ASVthe thresholds, and the closed windows, and the galleries round about on their three stories, over against the threshold, ceiled with wood round about, and from the ground up to the windows (now the windows were covered),
YLTthe thresholds, and the narrow windows, and the galleries round about them three, over-against the threshold, a ceiling of wood all round about, and the ground unto the windows and the covered windows,
DARBYThe thresholds, and the closed windows, and the galleries round about the three of them (opposite the thresholds it was wainscoted with wood round about, and from the ground up to the windows, and the windows were covered),
BBEAnd the sloping windows and the covered ways round all three of them were of shakiph-wood all round from the level of the earth up to the windows;
WebsterThe door posts, and the narrow windows, and the galleries around on their three stories, over against the door, ceiled with wood around, and from the ground up to the windows, and the windows were covered;

What does Ezekiel 41:16 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
16. covered--being the highest windows they were "covered" from the view below. Or else "covered with lattice-work."

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

Ezekiel 41:16 in the original Hebrew

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הַסִּפִּ֡יםha.si.Pimthe thresholdsH5592
וְהַחַלּוֹנִ֣יםve.ha.cha.lo.Nimand the windowsH2474
הָ֠אֲטֻמוֹתHa.'a.tu.mot<the> closedH331
וְהָאַתִּיקִ֤ים\׀ve.ha.'a.ti.Kimand the galleriesH862
סָבִיב֙sa.Viv[were] all aroundH5439
לִשְׁלָשְׁתָּ֔םlish.la.she.Tam<to> [the] three of themH7969
נֶ֧גֶדNe.gedbeforeH5048
הַסַּ֛ףha.Safthe thresholdH5592
שְׂחִ֥יףse.Chifpaneled ofH7824
עֵ֖ץ'etzwoodH6086
סָבִ֣יב\׀sa.Vivall aroundH5439
סָבִ֑יבsa.Vivall aroundH5439
וְהָאָ֙רֶץ֙ve.ha.'A.retzand the groundH776
עַד\־'ad-toH5704
הַֽחַלֹּנ֔וֹתha.cha.lo.Notthe windowsH2474
וְהַֽחַלֹּנ֖וֹתve.ha.cha.lo.Notand the windowsH2474
מְכֻסּֽוֹת\׃me.khu.Sot[were] coveredH3680

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Ezekiel 41:16

  • 1 Kings 6:4

    And for the house he made windows of narrow lights.

  • 1 Kings 6:15

    And he built the walls of the house within with boards of cedar, both the floor of the house, and the walls of the cieling: and he covered them on the inside with wood, and covered the floor of the house with planks of fir.

  • Ezekiel 40:25

    And there were windows in it and in the arches thereof round about, like those windows: the length was fifty cubits, and the breadth five and twenty cubits.

  • 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 windows were round about inward: and upon each post were palm trees.

  • Isaiah 6:4

    And the posts of the door moved at the voice of him that cried, and the house was filled with smoke.

  • Ezekiel 41:25-26

    And there were made on them, on the doors of the temple, cherubims and palm trees, like as were made upon the walls; and there were thick planks upon the face of the porch without. And there were narrow windows and palm trees on the one side and on the other side, on the sides of the porch, and upon the side chambers of the house, and thick planks.

  • Haggai 1:4

    Is it time for you, O ye, to dwell in your cieled houses, and this house lie waste?

  • Ezekiel 42:3

    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.

  • 2 Chronicles 3:5

    And the greater house he cieled with fir tree, which he overlaid with fine gold, and set thereon palm trees and chains.

  • 1 Corinthians 13:12

    For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
narrow.
26; 40:16,25; 1Ki 6:4; 1Co 13:12
ceiled with wood. Heb. ceiling of wood.
1Ki 6:15; 2Ch 3:5; Hag 1:4
from the ground up to the windows. or, the ground unto thewindows. covered. Probably either by jutting out of the main wall of the temple; or by lattice work, or curtains, or by both.

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Context

  • Ezekiel 41:15

    And he measured the length of the building over against the separate place which was behind it, and the galleries thereof on the one side and on the other side, an hundred cubits, with the inner temple, and the porches of the court;

  • Ezekiel 41:16

    The door posts, and the narrow windows, and the galleries round about on their three stories, over against the door, cieled with wood round about, and from the ground up to the windows, and the windows were covered;

  • Ezekiel 41:17

    To that above the door, even unto the inner house, and without, and by all the wall round about within and without, by measure.

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Ezekiel 41:16 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909
Los umbrales, y las ventanas estrechas, y las cámaras, tres en derredor á la parte delantera, todo cubierto de madera alrededor desde el suelo hasta las ventanas; y las ventanas también cubiertas.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885
Les seuils, et les fenêtres fermées, et les galeries, à l’entour, – aux trois – (vis-à-vis des seuils il y avait une boiserie mince, tout autour, et depuis le sol jusqu’aux fenêtres, et les fenêtres étaient couvertes)
German
Elberfelder 1871
Die Schwellen und die vergitterten Fenster und die Galerien rings um diese drei Gebäude-den Schwellen gegenüber war getäfeltes Holz ringsherum und vom Boden bis an die Fenster -
Latin
Clementine Vulgate
Limina, et fenestras obliquas, et ethecas in circuitu per tres partes, contra uniuscujusque limen, stratumque ligno per gyrum in circuitu: terra autem usque ad fenestras, et fenestræ clausæ super ostia.