Ezekiel 41 · Verse 8

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.
Ezekiel 41:8, King James Version

Ezekiel 41:8 in other translations

BSBI saw that the temple had a raised base all around it, forming the foundation of the side rooms. It was the full length of a rod, six long cubits.
WEBI saw also that the house had a raised base all around. The foundations of the side rooms were a full reed of six great cubits.
ASVI saw also that the house had a raised basement round about: the foundations of the side-chambers were a full reed of six great cubits.
YLTAnd I have looked at the house, the height all round about: the foundations of the side-chambers are the fulness of the reed, six cubits by the joining.
DARBYAnd I saw that the house had an elevation round about: the foundations of the side-chambers, a full reed, six cubits to the joint.
BBEAnd I saw that the house had a stone floor all round; the bases of the side-rooms were a full rod of six great cubits high.
WebsterI saw also the hight of the house around: the foundations of the side-chambers were a full reed of six great cubits.

What does Ezekiel 41:8 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
8. foundations ... six ... cubits--the substructure, on which the foundations rested, was a full reed of six cubits. great--literally, "to the extremity" or root, namely, of the hand [Henderson]. "To the joining," or point, where the foundation of one chamber ceased and another began [Fairbairn].

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

Ezekiel 41:8 in the original Hebrew

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וְרָאִ֧יתִיve.ra.'I.tiand I sawH7200
לַבַּ֛יִתla.Ba.yit[belonged] to the houseH1004
גֹּ֖בַהּGoaha heightH1363
סָבִ֣יב\׀sa.Vivall aroundH5439
סָבִ֑יבsa.Vivall aroundH5439
מוּסְד֤וֹתme.yu.se.dot[the] foundations ofH4145
הַצְּלָעוֹת֙ha.tze.la.'Otthe side-chambersH6763
מְל֣וֹme.Lo[was] [the] fullness ofH4393
הַקָּנֶ֔הha.ka.Nehthe reedH7070
שֵׁ֥שׁsheshsixH8337
אַמּ֖וֹת'a.MotcubitsH520
אַצִּֽילָה\׃'a.Tzi.laha jointH679

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

Cross references for Ezekiel 41:8

  • Ezekiel 40:5

    And behold a wall on the outside of the house round about, and in the man’s hand a measuring reed of six cubits long by the cubit and an hand breadth: so he measured the breadth of the building, one reed; and the height, one reed.

  • Revelation 21:16

    And the city lieth foursquare, and the length is as large as the breadth: and he measured the city with the reed, twelve thousand furlongs. The length and the breadth and the height of it are equal.

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Context

  • 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.

  • Ezekiel 41:9

    The thickness of the wall, which was for the side chamber without, was five cubits: and that which was left was the place of the side chambers that were within.

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Ezekiel 41:8 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909
Y miré la altura de la casa alrededor: los cimientos de las cámaras eran una caña entera de seis codos de grandor.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885
Je vis aussi à la maison une élévation tout autour, – les fondations des chambres latérales, une pleine canne, six coudées jusqu’à la jonction.
German
Elberfelder 1871
Und ich sah am Hause eine Erhöhung ringsherum: die Seitenzimmer hatten nämlich eine Grundlage von einer vollen Rute, sechs Ellen nach der Verbindung hin
Latin
Clementine Vulgate
Et vidi in domo altitudinem per circuitum, fundata latera ad mensuram calami sex cubitorum spatio: