Ezekiel 42 · Verse 2

Ezekiel 42:2

Before the length of an hundred cubits was the north door, and the breadth was fifty cubits.
Ezekiel 42:2, King James Version

Ezekiel 42:2 in other translations

BSBThe building with the door facing north was a hundred cubits long and fifty cubits wide.
WEBFacing the length of one hundred cubits was the north door, and the width was fifty cubits.
ASVBefore the length of a hundred cubits was the north door, and the breadth was fifty cubits.
YLTAt the front of the length is a hundred cubits at the north opening, and the breadth fifty cubits.
DARBYbefore the length of the hundred cubits: the entry was on the north, and the breadth was fifty cubits,
BBEOn the north side it was a hundred cubits long and fifty cubits wide,
WebsterBefore the length of a hundred cubits was the north door, and the breadth was fifty cubits.

What does Ezekiel 42:2 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

Eze 42:1-20. Chambers of the Priests: Measurements of the Temple.

2. Before the length of an hundred cubits--that is, before "the separate place," which was that length (Eze 41:13). He had before spoken of chambers for the officiating priests on the north and south gates of the inner court (Eze 40:44-46). He now returns to take a more exact view of them.

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Ezekiel 42:2 in the original Hebrew

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אֶל\־'el-toH413
פְּנֵי\־pe.nei-[the] face ofH6440
אֹ֙רֶךְ֙'o.rekhlengthH753
אַמּ֣וֹת'a.MotcubitsH520
הַמֵּאָ֔הha.me.'Ahthe hundredH3967
פֶּ֖תַחPe.tach[the] entrance ofH6607
הַצָּפ֑וֹןha.tza.Fonthe northH6828
וְהָרֹ֖חַבve.ha.Ro.chavand the breadthH7341
חֲמִשִּׁ֥יםcha.mi.Shim[was] fiftyH2572
אַמּֽוֹת\׃'a.MotcubitsH520

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

Cross references for Ezekiel 42:2

  • Ezekiel 41:13

    So he measured the house, an hundred cubits long; and the separate place, and the building, with the walls thereof, an hundred cubits long;

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Before.Perhaps this means, that the north door was 100 cubits from the entrance into the court; and that the door-way, or portico, was 50 cubits in length; or, that it faced one of the cloisters, the length of which was 100 cubits, and its breadth 50, which was the proportion of all the cloisters.
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Context

  • Ezekiel 42:1

    Then he brought me forth into the utter court, the way toward the north: and he brought me into the chamber that was over against the separate place, and which was before the building toward the north.

  • Ezekiel 42:2

    Before the length of an hundred cubits was the north door, and the breadth was fifty cubits.

  • 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.

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Ezekiel 42:2 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909		Por delante de la puerta del norte su longitud era de cien codos, y la anchura de cincuenta codos.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885		en face de la longueur, qui était de 100 coudées: l’entrée était au nord; et la largeur était de 50 coudées,
German
Elberfelder 1871		vor die Langseite hin von hundert Ellen, mit dem Eingang gegen Norden, und die Breite fünfzig Ellen;
Latin
Clementine Vulgate		In facie longitudinis, centum cubitos ostii aquilonis, et latitudinis quinquaginta cubitos,