Ezekiel 41:17

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) Ezekiel 41:17 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.
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to [the space] above the door, even to the inner house, and outside, and by all the wall round about inside and outside, by measure.
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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
    to [the space] above the door, even to the inner house, and outside, and by all the wall round about inside and outside, by measure.
  • King James Version Public Domain
    To that above the door, even unto the inner house, and without, and by all the wall round about within and without, by measure.
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
    Above the entryway to the inner sanctuary and spaced along the walls there was a measured pattern.

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Every available English version of this verse, each an independent rendering of the whole verse.

  • World English Bible Public Domain
    to [the space] above the door, even to the inner house, and outside, and by all the wall round about inside and outside, by measure.
  • Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
    In the space above the outside of the entrance to the inner sanctuary on all the walls, spaced evenly around the inner and outer sanctuary,
  • Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
    In the space above the outside of the entrance to the inner sanctuary on all the walls, spaced evenly around the inner and outer sanctuary,
  • King James Version Public Domain
    To that above the door, even unto the inner house, and without, and by all the wall round about within and without, by measure.
  • American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
    to `the space' above the door, even unto the inner house, and without, and by all the wall round about within and without, by measure.
  • Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
    to the space above the door, even unto the inner house, and without, and by all the wall round about within and without, by measure.
  • Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
    And from aboue the doore vnto the inner house and without, and by all the wall rounde about within and without it was sieled according to the measure.
  • Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
    And even to the inner house, and without all the wall round about within and without, by measure.
  • Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
    over above the opening, and unto the inner-house, and at the outside, and by all the wall all round about within and without `by' measure.
  • Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
    over above the opening, and to the inner-house, and at the outside, and by all the wall all around inside and outside [by] measurements.
  • Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
    Above the entryway to the inner sanctuary and spaced along the walls there was a measured pattern.
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
    Above the entryway to the inner sanctuary and spaced along the walls there was a measured pattern.
  • Darby Bible Public Domain
    [and] above, over the entry, even unto the inner house, and without, and by all the wall round about, within and without, [all was] by measure.
  • World Messianic Bible Public Domain
    to the space above the door, even to the inner house, and outside, and by all the wall all around inside and outside, by measure.
  • Webster's Bible Public Domain
    To that above the door, even to the inner house, and without, and by all the wall around within and without, by measure.
  • Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
    On the outside of all the walls by the entrance to the inner sanctuary, spaced at regular intervals around the inner and outer sanctuary,
  • Bible in Basic English Public Domain
    And there was a roof over the doorway and as far as the inner house, and to the outside and on the wall all round, inside and outside.
  • JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
    to the space above the door, even unto the inner house, and without, and on all the wall round about within and without, by measure.

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וּבַחִיצ֖וֹן
chîytsôwn
H2435
“and · in/at the · outer”
Conjunction + Preposition, Determined + Adjective, Adjective, Masculine, Singular, Absolute
Part of Speech
Conjunction + Preposition + Adjective
Type
Adjective
Gender
Masculine
Number
Singular
State
Absolute
Full BDB Definition

Origin: from H2434

TWOT: 627b

outer, external, outward
  1. עַל ʻal H5921 “upon” Preposition
  2. מֵעַ֣ל ʻal H5921 “from · upon” Preposition + Preposition
  3. הַפֶּ֡תַח pethach H6607 “the · doorway” Particle, Definite Article + Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute
  4. וְעַד ʻad H5704 “and · until” Conjunction + Preposition
  5. הַבַּיִת֩ bayith H1004 “the · house” Particle, Definite Article + Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute
  6. הַפְּנִימִ֨י pᵉnîymîy H6442 “the · inner” Particle, Definite Article + Adjective, Adjective, Masculine, Singular, Absolute
  7. וְלַח֜וּץ chûwts H2351 “and · to/for the · outside” Conjunction + Preposition, Determined + Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute
  8. וְאֶל ʼêl H413 “and · to” Conjunction + Preposition
  9. כָּל kôl H3605 “all of” Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct
  10. הַקִּ֨יר qîyr H7023 “the · wall” Particle, Definite Article + Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute
  11. סָבִ֧יב çâbîyb H5439 “round about” Noun, Common, Both, Singular, Absolute
  12. סָבִ֛יב çâbîyb H5439 “round about” Noun, Common, Both, Singular, Absolute
  13. בַּפְּנִימִ֥י pᵉnîymîy H6442 “in/at the · inner” Preposition, Determined + Adjective, Adjective, Masculine, Singular, Absolute
  14. מִדּֽוֹת middâh H4060 “measures” Noun, Common, Feminine, Plural, Absolute

About this verse

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15
words
12
distinct lemmas
Prophets
section

Notable vocabulary

The rarest word here is וּבַחִיצ֖וֹן outer H2435 — appearing just 25 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.

Shared distinctive vocabulary

וּבַחִיצ֖וֹן outer H2435 occurs in 24 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:

Grammatical profile

  • 8 nouns
  • 3 adjectives
  • 4 prepositions

Repetition

Words recur within this verse — often emphatic in Hebrew:

  • עַל upon H5921 ×2
  • הַפְּנִימִ֨י inner H6442 ×2
  • סָבִ֧יב round about H5439 ×2

Hebrew & Septuagint length

In English translation the verse runs 25 words from the Hebrew and 24 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 15 Hebrew tokens and 22 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.

Cross-references

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Topical passages linked to Ezekiel 41:17 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.

  • Ezekiel 42:15 Now when he had made an end of measuring the inner house, he brought me forth by the way of the gate whose prospect is toward the east, and measured it round about.

Cross-references courtesy of OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0).

Hebrew and Greek witnesses Masoretic Hebrew ↔ Greek Septuagint

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Hebrew Ezekiel 41:17 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

עַל מֵעַ֣ל הַפֶּ֡תַח וְעַד הַבַּיִת֩ הַפְּנִימִ֨י וְלַח֜וּץ וְאֶל כָּל הַקִּ֨יר סָבִ֧יב סָבִ֛יב בַּפְּנִימִ֥י וּבַחִיצ֖וֹן מִדּֽוֹת

to [the space] above the door, even to the inner house, and outside, and by all the wall round about inside and outside, by measure.

World English Bible · Public Domain

Greek LXX Ezekiel 41:17 Septuagint · lemma form

καί ἕως πλησίον ὁ ἐσώτερος καί ἕως ὁ ἐξώτερος καί ἐπί ὅλος ὁ τοῖχος κύκλος ἐν ὁ ἔσωθεν καί ἐν ὁ ἔξωθεν

And almost all the way to the inner, and close to the outer side, and upon all the wall round about within and without,

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)

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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.

  1. Targum Jonathan Prophets (Joshua–Malachi)
    עַד לְעֵלָא מִן תַּרְעָא וּמִן בֵּיתָא גַוְאָה וּלְבָרָא וְעַל כָּל כּוֹתְלָא סְחוֹר סְחוֹר מִלְגָיו וּמִלְבָרָא מִשְׁחָן:

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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.

Commentary

Notes on Ezekiel 41:17 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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Trapp's Complete Commentary

John Trapp

Eze 41:17 To that above the door, even unto the inner house, and without, and by all the wall round about within and without, by measure.

Ver. 17. By measure.] Heb., Measure. See on Eze 40:47.

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.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown

by measure--Measurements were taken [FAIRBAIRN].

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown — Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers

(17) To that above the door.—Better, (The space) over above the door, both to the inner house and without . . . (was) by measure. The verse is an emphatic repetition of the fact that everything was by measure.

A Bible Commentary for English Readers, edited by Charles John Ellicott (1878–1897) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

John Gill's Exposition

To that above the door, even unto the inner house,.... The meaning is, either there were such windows as before described above the door of the eastern gate, that led into the holiest of all, and even unto the inner house, or holy of holies: and without; and to all the side, chambers that were built without it:

and by all the wall round about within and without; both within the holy place, and without, in the places adjoining to it, on all sides, west, north, and south; or all were cieled with cedar wood, that it might be more capable of being ornamented, either with gold, or with the decorations mentioned in the following verses: or the sense is, that all these were measured exactly: for it follows, "by measure"; or to all these "were measures" (m); the dimensions were taken; every thing in the Gospel church state, whether in its less or more perfect state, will be all according to rule and measure.

(m) "mensuras accepit", Munster; "in omnibus mensurae monstratae sunt", Tigurine version.

John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible (1746–1763) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

To that ... - Over above the door ...”within and without” was “by measure.” This verse asserts that all the overlaying was done by careful measurement.

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible (1834–1885) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.

Matthew Poole's English Annotations

In the 15th verse the prophet began his catalogue, and continueth it through this verse, in which, in the gross, he tells us all above the doors, in every porch and gate to the very inner house, and all without, the buildings about the walls, were measured exactly, though we have neither the particular account of what these were, either things or measures.

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible (1683–1685) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.

Rashi

Rabbi Shlomo Yitzchaki (Rashi)

On [the wall] over the entrance on high.

and until the Inner House the Holy of Holies throughout its entirety.

and outward towards the Heichal.

round about on all its walls.

in the Inner One and in the Outer One In the Holy of Holies and in the Heichal.

[made according to] measure. [Lit. measures.] Covered with large boards made to measure.

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.

Lesson kit

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Ezekiel, in the Prophets, opens this verse with 15 words (12 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is chîytsôwn (“outer”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

  1. The word chîytsôwn carries the sense “outer.” How does it shape the verse?
  2. 1 Kings 6:29 shares the word «outer» with this verse. How do the two illuminate each other?
  3. “upon” occurs 2× in this one verse. What is the effect of the repetition?
  4. These translations render this verse differently; the difference is in the English rendering, not the original. What questions does that raise?
  5. Reading how Trapp's Complete Commentary and Jamieson, Fausset & Brown read this verse, where do the two commentators agree and where do they part?

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