Ezekiel 42 · Verse 6

Ezekiel 42:6

For they were in three stories, but had not pillars as the pillars of the courts: therefore the building was straitened more than the lowest and the middlemost from the ground.
Ezekiel 42:6, King James Version

Ezekiel 42:6 in other translations

BSBFor they were arranged in three stories, and unlike the courts, they had no pillars. So the upper chambers were set back further than the lower and middle floors.
WEBFor they were in three stories, and they didn’t have pillars as the pillars of the courts. Therefore the uppermost was set back more than the lowest and the middle from the ground.
ASVFor they were in three stories, and they had not pillars as the pillars of the courts: therefore the uppermost was straitened more than the lowest and the middlemost from the ground.
YLTfor they are threefold, and they have no pillars as the pillars of the court, therefore it hath been kept back--more than the lower and than the middle one--from the ground.
DARBYFor they were in three stories, but had not pillars as the pillars of the courts; therefore the third story was straitened more than the lowest and the middle-most from the ground.
BBEFor they were on three floors, and they had no pillars like the pillars of the outer square; so the highest was narrower than the lowest and middle floors from the earth level.
WebsterFor they were in three stories, but had not pillars as the pillars of the courts: therefore the building was straitened more than the lowest and the middlemost from the ground.

Ezekiel 42:6 in the original Hebrew

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כִּ֤יkiforH3588
מְשֻׁלָּשׁוֹת֙me.shu.la.shOt[were] divided into three partsH8027
הֵ֔נָּהHe.nahtheyH2007
וְאֵ֤יןve.'Einand notH369
לָהֶן֙la.Hen[belonged] to them
עַמּוּדִ֔ים'a.mu.DimcolumnsH5982
כְּעַמּוּדֵ֖יke.'a.mu.Deilike [the] columns ofH5982
הַחֲצֵר֑וֹתha.cha.tze.Rotthe courtyardsH2691
עַל\־'al-there-H5921
כֵּ֣ןken-foreH3651
נֶאֱצַ֗לne.'e.Tzalit was shortenedH680
מֵהַתַּחְתּוֹנ֛וֹתme.ha.tach.to.Notmore than the lower [rooms]H8481
וּמֵהַתִּֽיכֹנ֖וֹתu.me.ha.ti.kho.Notand more than the middle [rooms]H8484
מֵהָאָֽרֶץ\׃me.ha.'A.retzfrom the groundH776

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Cross references for Ezekiel 42:6

  • 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.

  • 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.

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41:6; 1Ki 6:8

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Context

  • 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.

  • Ezekiel 42:6

    For they were in three stories, but had not pillars as the pillars of the courts: therefore the building was straitened more than the lowest and the middlemost from the ground.

  • Ezekiel 42:7

    And the wall that was without over against the chambers, toward the utter court on the forepart of the chambers, the length thereof was fifty cubits.

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Ezekiel 42:6 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909
Porque estaban en tres pisos, y no tenían columnas como las columnas de los atrios: por tanto, eran más estrechas que las de abajo y las del medio desde el suelo.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885
Car elles étaient à trois étages, et n’avaient pas de colonnes comme les colonnes des parvis; c’est pourquoi le troisième étage était en retraite, en comparaison des cellules inférieures et de celles du milieu, depuis le sol.
German
Elberfelder 1871
Denn sie waren dreistöckig, hatten aber keine Säulen wie die Säulen der Vorhöfe; darum waren sie schmäler am Boden als die unteren und die mittleren.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate
Tristega enim erant, et non habebant columnas, sicut erant columnæ atriorum: propterea eminebant de inferioribus, et de mediis a terra cubitis quinquaginta.