He led me toward the south; and, behold, a gate toward the south: and he measured the posts of it and the arches of it according to these measures.
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He led me toward the south; and, behold, a gate toward the south: and he measured the posts of it and the arches of it according to these measures.
After that he brought me toward the south, and behold a gate toward the south: and he measured the posts thereof and the arches thereof according to these measures.
Next the man brought me to the gate of the southern entrance, and its walls and portico measured the same as the other outer gates.
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He led me toward the south; and, behold, a gate toward the south: and he measured the posts of it and the arches of it according to these measures.
Then he led me to the south side, and I saw a gateway facing south. He measured its side pillars and portico, and they had the same measurements as the others.
Then he led me to the south side, and I saw a gateway facing south. He measured its side pillars and portico, and they had the same measurements as the others.
After that he brought me toward the south, and behold a gate toward the south: and he measured the posts thereof and the arches thereof according to these measures.
And he led me toward the south; and, behold, a gate toward the south: and he measured the posts thereof and the arches thereof according to these measures.
And he led me toward the south, and behold a gate toward the south: and he measured the posts thereof and the arches thereof according to these measures.
After that, he brought mee towarde the South, and loe, there was a gate towarde the South, and hee measured the postes thereof, and the arches thereof according to these measures.
And he brought me out to the way of the south, and behold the gate that looked to the south: and he measured the front thereof, and the porch thereof according to the former measures.
And he causeth me to go southward, and lo, a gate southward, and he hath measured its posts and its arches according to these measures;
And he causes me to go southward, and behold, a gate southward, and he has measured its posts and its arches according to these measurements;
Next the man brought me to the gate of the southern entrance, and its walls and portico measured the same as the other outer gates.
Next the man brought me to the gate of the southern entrance, and its walls and portico measured the same as the other outer gates.
And he brought me toward the south: and behold, there was a gate toward the south; and he measured its posts and its projections according to these measures.
He led me toward the south; and behold, there was a gate toward the south. He measured its posts and its arches according to these measurements.
After that he brought me towards the south, and behold a gate towards the south: and he measured its posts and its arches according to these measures.
He took me to the south side, and I saw a gateway that faced south. He measured its posts and its porch, and they measured the same as those previously.
And he took me to the south, and I saw a doorway looking to the south: and he took the measure of its rooms and its uprights and its covered ways by these measures.
And he led me toward the south, and behold a gate toward the south; and he measured the posts thereof, and the arches thereof according to these measures.
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Notable vocabulary
The rarest word here is הַדָּר֔וֹם south H1864 — appearing just 17 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.
Shared distinctive vocabulary
הַדָּר֔וֹם south H1864 occurs in 14 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:
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Verb forms
Repetition
Words recur within this verse — often emphatic in Hebrew:
Hebrew & Septuagint length
In English translation the verse runs 29 words from the Hebrew and 31 from the Septuagint (LXX English) — closely comparable.
A rough comparison of the two English renderings, which tokenize alike — not a word-level alignment.
Word counts can differ between the Hebrew and the Greek without any difference in meaning — e.g. the Hebrew direct-object marker אֵת has no separate Greek word, and Greek often adds the article ὁ.
In the original languages it is 14 Hebrew tokens and 27 Greek tokens — but the two are counted differently (Hebrew bundles its prefixes and suffixes into one token; the Greek is in lemma form), so that isn’t a like-for-like length.
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The same verse in the two great witnesses to the Old Testament, shown verse-for-verse.
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וַיּוֹלִכֵ֨נִי֙ דֶּ֣רֶךְ הַדָּר֔וֹם וְהִנֵּה שַׁ֖עַר דֶּ֣רֶךְ הַדָּר֑וֹם וּמָדַ֤ד אילו אֵילָיו֙ ואילמו וְאֵ֣ילַמָּ֔יו כַּמִּדּ֖וֹת הָאֵֽלֶּה
He led me toward the south; and, behold, a gate toward the south: and he measured the posts of it and the arches of it according to these measures.
World English Bible · Public Domain
καί ἄγω ἐγώ κατά νότος καί ἰδού πύλη βλέπω πρός νότος καί διαμετρέω αὐτός καί ὁ θεε καί ὁ αιλευ καί ὁ αιλαμμω κατά ὁ μέτρον οὗτος
And he brought me to the south side, and behold a gate looking southwards: and he measured it, and its chambers, and its posts, and its porches, according to these dimensions.
LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) · Public Domain
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Hebrew: Westminster Leningrad Codex (CC BY 4.0). Greek: Septuagint (public domain); English from LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) (Public Domain). How the Septuagint differs from the Hebrew →
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וְאוֹבִילֵנִי בְּאוֹרַח דָרוֹמָא וְהָא תַרְעָא חַד פְּתִיחַ לְאוֹרַח דָרוֹמָא וּמְשַׁח אֵילוֹהִי וְאוּלֵמוֹהִי כִּמְשַׁחְתָּא הָאִלֵין:
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Targum Jonathan — Aramaic: “Mikraot Gedolot” (public domain). English: “Sefaria Community Translation” (CC0 1.0 (public-domain dedication)); “London "Chaldee Paraphrase," 1871” (public domain). Text via Sefaria.
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Ezekiel, in the Prophets, opens this verse with 14 words (10 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is dârôwm (“south”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Commentary
Notes on Ezekiel 40:24 from classic Christian and Jewish commentators (each source and its license shown beneath its notes). The classic Christian expositions comment on the surrounding passage and are grouped to its opening verse, so a note may address several verses; the Jewish commentaries on the Tanakh (Rashi and others) are per-verse, so they appear only where the commentator wrote on this verse.
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Joseph Benson's Commentary
Joseph Benson's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments (1811–1818) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
Adam Clarke's Commentary
Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible (1810–1826) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges (gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne; Cambridge University Press, 1878–1918) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
John Gill's Exposition
John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible (1746–1763) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.
Matthew Poole's English Annotations
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible (1683–1685) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.
The Pulpit Commentary
The Pulpit Commentary (1880–1919), ed. H.D.M. Spence-Jones & Joseph S. Exell — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
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Door43 World Missions Community
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Rashi
Rabbi Shlomo Yitzchaki (Rashi)
Rashi on the Tanakh — English translations: “The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg” (CC BY 4.0); “Pentateuch with Rashi's commentary by M. Rosenbaum and A.M. Silbermann, 1929-1934” (public domain); “The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J” (CC BY 4.0); and “The Book of Joshua, Metsudah Publications, 1997” (CC BY 4.0). Text via Sefaria.