Ezekiel 42 · Verse 4

Ezekiel 42:4

And before the chambers was a walk of ten cubits breadth inward, a way of one cubit; and their doors toward the north.
Ezekiel 42:4, King James Version

Ezekiel 42:4 in other translations

BSBIn front of the chambers was an inner walkway ten cubits wide and a hundred cubits long. Their doors were on the north.
WEBBefore the rooms was a walk of ten cubits’ width inward, a way of one cubit; and their doors were toward the north.
ASVAnd before the chambers was a walk of ten cubits’ breadth inward, a way of one cubit; and their doors were toward the north.
YLTAnd at the front of the chambers is a walk of ten cubits in breadth unto the inner part, a way of one cubit, and their openings are at the north.
DARBYand before the cells was a walk of ten cubits in breadth, and a way of a hundred cubits inward; and their entries were toward the north.
BBEAnd in front of the rooms was a walk, ten cubits wide and a hundred cubits long; and their doors were facing north.
WebsterAnd before the chambers was a walk of ten cubits breadth inward, a way of one cubit; and their doors towards the north.

What does Ezekiel 42:4 mean?

Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 4 A walk of ten cubits' breadth inward - This seems to have been a sort of parapet.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Ezekiel 42:4 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.

וְלִפְנֵ֨יve.lif.Neiand [was] <to> beforeH6440
הַלְּשָׁכ֜וֹתha.le.sha.Khotthe roomsH3957
מַהֲלַךְ֩ma.ha.laKha passage ofH4109
עֶ֨שֶׂר'E.sertenH6235
אַמּ֥וֹת'a.MotcubitsH520
רֹ֙חַב֙ro.chavbreadthH7341
אֶל\־'el-toH413
הַפְּנִימִ֔יתha.pe.ni.Mitthe inner [court]H6442
דֶּ֖רֶךְDe.rekha way ofH1870
אַמָּ֣ה'a.Maha cubitH520
אֶחָ֑ת'e.ChatoneH259
וּפִתְחֵיהֶ֖םu.fit.chei.Hemand entrances theirH6607
לַצָּפֽוֹן\׃la.tza.Fon[were] to the northH6828

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

Cross references for Ezekiel 42:4

  • Ezekiel 46:19

    After he brought me through the entry, which was at the side of the gate, into the holy chambers of the priests, which looked toward the north: and, behold, there was a place on the two sides westward.

  • Luke 13:24

    Strive to enter in at the strait gate: for many, I say unto you, will seek to enter in, and shall not be able.

  • Matthew 7:14

    Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
before.These seems to have been two rows of these chambers, and a walk between of ten cubits in width; with an entrance into it from the chambers, of one cubit in width.
a walk.
11
a way.
Mt 7:14; Lu 13:24

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

Context

  • 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.

  • Ezekiel 42:4

    And before the chambers was a walk of ten cubits breadth inward, a way of one cubit; and their doors toward the north.

  • Ezekiel 42:5

    Now the upper chambers were shorter: for the galleries were higher than these, than the lower, and than the middlemost of the building.

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Ezekiel 42:4 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909
Y delante de las cámaras había un corredor de diez codos de ancho á la parte de adentro, con viaje de un codo; y sus puertas hacia el norte.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885
et devant les cellules, un passage de dix coudées de largeur; vers l’intérieur, un chemin de 100 coudées; et leurs entrées étaient au nord.
German
Elberfelder 1871
Und vor den Zellen war ein Gang von zehn Ellen Breite: nach dem inneren Vorhof hin ein Weg von hundert Ellen. Und ihre Türen waren gegen Norden gerichtet.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate
Et ante gazophylacia deambulatio decem cubitorum latitudinis, ad interiora respiciens viæ cubiti unius. Et ostia eorum ad aquilonem: