וַיְבִיאֵ֖נִי אֶל שַׁ֣עַר הַצָּפ֑וֹן וּמָדַ֖ד כַּמִּדּ֥וֹת הָאֵֽלֶּה
He brought me to the north gate: and he measured [it] according to these measures;
World English Bible · Public Domain
Ezekiel 40:35
Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) Ezekiel 40:35 appears in the Hebrew Old Testament. The text above is from the Westminster Leningrad Codex. Each word links to its Strong’s number, a concise gloss, and parsing drawn from the Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible morphology. Click any word for its full Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB) entry.
English Translation
He brought me to the north gate: and he measured [it] according to these measures;
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The same verse in 3 English versions, stacked beneath the original-language interlinear above. Click any original word for its lexicon entry.
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World English Bible Public Domain
He brought me to the north gate: and he measured [it] according to these measures;
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King James Version Public Domain
And he brought me to the north gate, and measured it according to these measures;
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Next the man brought me to the northern gate and measured it; it measured the same as the other gates.
unfoldingWord Literal Text — © unfoldingWord, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Word-aligned USFM3 via Door43 (git.door43.org/unfoldingWord/en_ult).
Show all 18 translations
Every available English version of this verse, each an independent rendering of the whole verse.
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World English Bible Public Domain
He brought me to the north gate: and he measured [it] according to these measures;
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Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Then he brought me to the north gate and measured it. It had the same measurements as the others,
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Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
Then he brought me to the north gate and measured it. It had the same measurements as the others,
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King James Version Public Domain
And he brought me to the north gate, and measured it according to these measures;
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American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
And he brought me to the north gate: and he measured `it' according to these measures;
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Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
And he brought me to the north gate: and he measured it according to these measures;
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Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
After he brought mee to the North gate, and measured it, according to these measures,
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Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
And he brought me into the gate that looked to the north: and he measured according to the former measures.
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Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
And he bringeth me in unto the north gate, and hath measured according to these measures;
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Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
And he brings me into the north gate, and has measured according to these measurements;
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Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
Next the man brought me to the northern gate and measured it; it measured the same as the other gates.
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Next the man brought me to the northern gate and measured it; it measured the same as the other gates.
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Darby Bible Public Domain
And he brought me to the north gate, and he measured [it] according to these measures:
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World Messianic Bible Public Domain
He brought me to the north gate, and he measured it according to these measurements—
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Webster's Bible Public Domain
And he brought me to the north gate, and measured it according to these measures;
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Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
He took me to the north gate and measured it. It measured the same as those previously,
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Bible in Basic English Public Domain
And he took me to the north doorway: and he took the measure of it by these measures;
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JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
And he brought me to the north gate; and he measured it according to these measures;
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וּמָדַ֖ד
mâdad
H4058
“and · to measure”
Conjunction + Verb, Qal, Perfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular
- Appears 51× in the Hebrew Bible
- First appears at Exodus 16:18
- Part of Speech
- Conjunction + Verb
- Stem
- Qal
- Form
- Perfect
- Person
- 3rd Person
- Gender
- Masculine
- Number
- Singular
Full BDB Definition
to measure, stretch
- (Qal) to measure
- (Niphal) to be measured
- (Piel)
- to extend, continue
- to measure, measure off
- (Po) measured
- (Hithpolel) to extend oneself, stretch oneself
- וַיְבִיאֵ֖נִי bôwʼ H935 “and · to enter · me” Conjunction + Verb, Hiphil, Sequential Imperfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular + Suffix, Personal, 1st Person, Common, Singular
- אֶל ʼêl H413 “to” Preposition
- שַׁ֣עַר shaʻar H8179 “gate of” Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct
- הַצָּפ֑וֹן tsâphôwn H6828 “the · north” Particle, Definite Article + Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute
- וּמָדַ֖ד mâdad H4058 “and · to measure” Conjunction + Verb, Qal, Perfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular
- כַּמִּדּ֥וֹת middâh H4060 “like/as the · measures” Preposition, Determined + Noun, Common, Feminine, Plural, Absolute
- הָאֵֽלֶּה ʼêl-leh H428 “the · these” Particle, Definite Article + Pronoun, Demonstrative, Common, Plural
About this verse
These counts appear in no published source. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged text and Lemma’s own curated glosses. What Lemma adds →
- 7
- words
- 7
- distinct lemmas
- Prophets
- section
Shared distinctive vocabulary
וּמָדַ֖ד to measure H4058 occurs in 49 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:
Grammatical profile
- 2 verbs
- 3 nouns
- 1 pronoun
- 1 preposition
Verb forms
- וַיְבִיאֵ֖נִי Hiphil · Sequential Imperfect
- וּמָדַ֖ד Qal · Perfect
Hebrew & Septuagint length
In English translation the verse runs 15 words from the Hebrew and 16 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.
Cross-references
4Topical passages linked to Ezekiel 40:35 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.
- Ezekiel 47:2 Then he brought me out by the way of the gate northward, and led me round by the way outside to the outer gate, by the way of [the gate] that looks toward the east; and, behold, there ran out waters on the right side.
- Ezekiel 40:32 He brought me into the inner court toward the east: and he measured the gate according to these measures;
- Ezekiel 44:4 Then he brought me by the way of the north gate before the house; and I looked, and, behold, the glory of Yahweh filled the house of Yahweh: and I fell on my face.
- Ezekiel 40:27 There was a gate to the inner court toward the south: and he measured from gate to gate toward the south a hundred cubits.
Cross-references courtesy of OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0).
Hebrew and Greek witnesses Masoretic Hebrew ↔ Greek Septuagint
The same verse in the two great witnesses to the Old Testament, shown verse-for-verse.
These are two independent witnesses, not word-aligned to each other, and the Septuagint is shown in lemma (dictionary) form.
καί εἰςἄγω ἐγώ εἰς ὁ πύλη ὁ πρός βορέας καί διαμετρέω κατά ὁ μέτρον οὗτος
And he brought me in at the northern gate, and measured it according to these measures;
LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) · Public Domain
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 →
Targum (Aramaic paraphrase)
The Targum is the ancient Jewish Aramaic paraphrase of the Hebrew Scriptures — an interpretive translation, not the Hebrew text itself. Onkelos (literal) and Pseudo-Jonathan (expansive) render the Torah, and Jonathan the Prophets. Coverage is partial: where no permissively-licensed English translation exists for a verse, only the Aramaic is shown. This is verse-level text, not a word-by-word alignment to the Hebrew.
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Targum Jonathan Prophets (Joshua–Malachi)
וְאָעֲלַנִי לִתְרַע צִפּוּנָא וּמְשַׁח כְּמִשְׁחָתָא 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.
Lesson kit
Teaching starters — assembled from the data on this page, not authored interpretation. Every prompt links to the verse data it draws on. Edit before teaching.
Ezekiel, in the Prophets, opens this verse with 7 words (7 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is mâdad (“to measure”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Discussion questions
- What does “to measure” (mâdad) contribute to the verse as a whole?
- How does Exodus 16:18, which shares the word «to measure», read alongside this verse?
- These translations render this verse differently. What is at stake in choosing one wording over another?
- «וַיְבִיאֵ֖נִי» is a Hiphil Sequential Imperfect verb. How does that grammatical form shape the action described?
- Compare how Trapp's Complete Commentary and Tyndale Open Study Notes read this verse. Where do they agree or differ?
Things to notice
- These translations choose different wording for 9 words in this verse.
- 7 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 7 words in this verse.
Commentary
Notes on Ezekiel 40:35 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.
Lemma curates 59 commentaries, every one of them public domain or Creative Commons licensed, each selected and text-cleaned for this edition rather than reprinted as found. About our sources →
Trapp's Complete Commentary
John Trapp
John Trapp, A Commentary or Exposition upon All the Books of the Old and New Testament (1647–1656) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
Tyndale Open Study Notes
Tyndale Open Resources
Tyndale Open Study Notes — © Tyndale Open Resources, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Text via the HelloAO Bible API.
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.
unfoldingWord translationNotes
Door43 World Missions Community
unfoldingWord translationNotes — © Distant Shores Media and the Door43 World Missions Community, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Source: git.door43.org/Door43/en_tn.