Ezekiel 41 · Verse 7

Ezekiel 41:7

And there was an enlarging, and a winding about still upward to the side chambers: for the winding about of the house went still upward round about the house: therefore the breadth of the house was still upward, and so increased from the lowest chamber to the highest by the midst.
Ezekiel 41:7, King James Version

Ezekiel 41:7 in other translations

BSBThe side rooms surrounding the temple widened at each successive level, because the structure surrounding the temple ascended by stages corresponding to the narrowing of the temple wall as it rose upward. And so a stairway went up from the lowest story to the highest, through the middle one.
WEBThe side rooms were wider on the higher levels, because the walls were narrower at the higher levels. Therefore the width of the house increased upward; and so one went up from the lowest level to the highest through the middle level.
ASVAnd the side-chambers were broader as they encompassed the house higher and higher; for the encompassing of the house went higher and higher round about the house: therefore the breadth of the house continued upward; and so one went up from the lowest chamber to the highest by the middle chamber.
YLTAnd a broad place and a turning place still upwards are to the side-chambers, for the turning round of the house is still upwards all round about the house: therefore the breadth of the house is upwards, and so the lower one goeth up unto the higher by the midst.
DARBYAnd for the side-chambers there was an enlarging, and it went round about the house increasing upward; for the surrounding of the house increased upward round about the house; therefore the house had width upward, and so ascended from the lower story to the upper, by the middle one.
BBEThe side-rooms became wider as they went higher up the house, by the amount of the space let into the wall up round about the house, because of the inlets in the house; and one went up from the lowest floor by steps to the middle, and from the middle to the upper floor.
WebsterAnd there was an enlarging, and a winding about still upward to the side-chambers: for the winding about of the house went still upward around the house; therefore the breadth of the house was still upward, and so increased from the lowest chamber to the highest by the midst.

What does Ezekiel 41:7 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
7. the breadth ... so increased from the lowest ... to the highest--that is, the breadth of the interior space above was greater than that below.

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

Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 7 An enlarging, and a winding about - Perhaps a winding staircase that-widened upward as the inner wall decreased in thickness; this wall being six cubits thick; as high as the first story, five from the floor of the second story to that of the third, and four from the floor to the ceiling of the third story: and thus there was a rest of one cubit in breadth to support the stories. - Newcome.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Ezekiel 41:7 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

וְֽרָחֲבָ֡הve.ra.cha.Vahand it was broadH7337
וְֽנָסְבָה֩ve.na.se.Vahand it surroundedH5437
לְמַ֨עְלָהle.Ma'.lah<to> upwards <towards>H4605
לְמַ֜עְלָהle.Ma'.lah<to> upwards <towards>H4605
לַצְּלָע֗וֹתla.tze.la.'otto the side-chambersH6763
כִּ֣יkiforH3588
מֽוּסַב\־mu.sav-[the] surrounding ofH4141
הַ֠בַּיִתHa.ba.yitthe houseH1004
לְמַ֨עְלָהle.Ma'.lah<to> upwards <towards>H4605
לְמַ֜עְלָהle.Ma'.lah<to> upwards <towards>H4605
סָבִ֤יב\׀sa.Vivall aroundH5439
סָבִיב֙sa.Vivall aroundH5439
לַבַּ֔יִתla.Ba.yitto the houseH1004
עַל\־'al-there-H5921
כֵּ֥ןken-foreH3651
רֹֽחַב\־ro.chav-[the] breadthH7341
לַבַּ֖יִתla.Ba.yitof the houseH1004
לְמָ֑עְלָהle.Ma.'e.lah<to> upwards <towards>H4605
וְכֵ֧ןve.Khenand thusH3651
הַתַּחְתּוֹנָ֛הha.tach.to.Nahthe lower [story]H8481
יַעֲלֶ֥הya.'a.Lehsomeone will ascendH5927
עַל\־'al-toH5921
הָעֶלְיוֹנָ֖הha.'el.yo.Nahthe upper [story]H5945
לַתִּיכוֹנָֽה\׃la.ti.kho.Nahto the middle [story]H8484

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

Cross references for Ezekiel 41:7

  • 1 Kings 6:8

    The door for the middle chamber was in the right side of the house: and they went up with winding stairs into the middle chamber, and out of the middle into the third.

  • Hebrews 6:1

    Therefore leaving the principles of the doctrine of Christ, let us go on unto perfection; not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works, and of faith toward God,

  • Matthew 13:32

    Which indeed is the least of all seeds: but when it is grown, it is the greatest among herbs, and becometh a tree, so that the birds of the air come and lodge in the branches thereof.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
there was. Heb. it was, made broader, and went round.
1Ki 6:8; Mt 13:32; Heb 6:1
an enlarging.In the same proportion in which the thickness of the wall decreased, the chambers increased, so that the middle story was one cubit larger, and the upper story two cubits larger, than the lower rooms; and a winding staircase, which widened in the same manner as the rooms, ascended from the bottom to the top.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (Samuel Bagster, c. 1836) · public domain

Context

  • Ezekiel 41:6

    And the side chambers were three, one over another, and thirty in order; and they entered into the wall which was of the house for the side chambers round about, that they might have hold, but they had not hold in the wall of the house.

  • Ezekiel 41:7

    And there was an enlarging, and a winding about still upward to the side chambers: for the winding about of the house went still upward round about the house: therefore the breadth of the house was still upward, and so increased from the lowest chamber to the highest by the midst.

  • Ezekiel 41:8

    I saw also the height of the house round about: the foundations of the side chambers were a full reed of six great cubits.

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Ezekiel 41:7 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909
Y había mayor anchura y vuelta en las cámaras á lo más alto; el caracol de la casa subía muy alto alrededor por de dentro de la casa: por tanto la casa tenía más anchura arriba; y de la cámara baja se subía á la alta por la del medio.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885
Et il y avait aux chambres latérales un élargissement, et il allait tournant toujours vers le haut, car le pourtour de la maison allait toujours vers le haut tout autour de la maison; c’est pourquoi la largeur de la maison était plus grande vers le haut; et ainsi la partie du bas montait à la partie du haut par la partie du milieu.
German
Elberfelder 1871
Und die Erweiterung und Umgebung nahm nach oben hin mehr und mehr zu, hinsichtlich der Seitenzimmer; denn die Umgebung des Hauses vergrößerte sich nach oben hin mehr und mehr rings um das Haus, wodurch Breite am Hause nach oben hin entstand. Und so stieg das untere Stockwerk zum oberen auf nach Verhältnis des mittleren.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate
Et platea erat in rotundum, ascendens sursum per cochleam, et in cœnaculum templi deferebat per gyrum: idcirco latius erat templum in superioribus: et sic de inferioribus ascendebatur ad superiora in medium.