Ezekiel 42:6
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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.For 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.
In other translations
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.For 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.
Hebrew words
כִּיkiforH3588מְשֻׁלָּשׁוֹתmeshulashot[were] divided into three partsH8027הֵנָּהhenahtheyH2007וְאֵיןve'einand notH369לָהֶןlahen[belonged] to themעַמּוּדִים'amudimcolumnsH5982כְּעַמּוּדֵיke'amudeilike [the] columns ofH5982הַחֲצֵרוֹתhachatzerotthe courtyardsH2691עַל־'al-there-H5921כֵּןken-foreH3651נֶאֱצַלne'etzalit was shortenedH680מֵהַתַּחְתּוֹנוֹתmehatachtonotmore than the lower [rooms]H8481וּמֵהַתִּיכֹנוֹתumehatikhonotand more than the middle [rooms]H8484מֵהָאָרֶץ׃meha'aretzfrom the groundH776
Word by word from STEPBible's tagged Hebrew Old Testament, STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0. Hebrew reads right to left.
Related verses
- Ezekiel 41:6And 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.The side rooms were arranged one above another in three levels of thirty rooms each. There were ledges all around the wall of the temple to serve as supports for the side rooms, so that the supports would not be fastened into the wall of the temple itself.
- 1 Kings 6:8The 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.The entrance to the bottom floor was on the south side of the temple. A stairway led up to the middle level, and from there to the third floor.
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