from the ground to above the door were cherubim and palm trees made: thus was the wall of the temple.
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from the ground to above the door were cherubim and palm trees made: thus was the wall of the temple.
From the ground unto above the door were cherubims and palm trees made, and on the wall of the temple.
From the ground to above the doorway, cherubim and palm trees were carved on the outer wall of the house.
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from the ground to above the door were cherubim and palm trees made: thus was the wall of the temple.
Cherubim and palm trees were carved on the wall of the outer sanctuary from the floor to the space above the entrance.
Cherubim and palm trees were carved on the wall of the outer sanctuary from the floor to the space above the entrance.
From the ground unto above the door were cherubims and palm trees made, and on the wall of the temple.
from the ground unto above the door were cherubim and palm-trees made: thus was the wall of the temple.
from the ground unto above the door were cherubim and palm trees made: thus was the wall of the temple.
From the grounde vnto aboue the doore were Cherubims and palme trees made as in the wall of the Temple.
From the ground even to the upper parts of the gate, were cherubims and palm trees wrought in the wall of the temple.
from the earth unto above the opening `are' the cherubs and the palm-trees made, and `on' the wall of the temple.
From the earth to above the opening the cherubim and the palm-trees [were] made, and [on] the wall of the temple.
From the ground to above the doorway, cherubim and palm trees were carved on the outer wall of the house.
From the ground to above the doorway, cherubim and palm trees were carved on the outer wall of the house.
From the ground unto above the entry were the cherubim and the palm-trees made, and [on] the wall of the temple.
Cherubim and palm trees were made from the ground to above the door. The wall of the temple was like this.
From the ground to above the door were cherubim and palm-trees made, and on the wall of the temple.
Designs of cherubim and palm trees were carved on the Temple wall from the floor up to the space above the doorway.
From earth level up to the windows there were winged ones and palm-trees pictured on the wall.
From the ground unto above the door were cherubim and palm-trees made; and so on the wall of the temple.
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Notable vocabulary
The rarest word here is וְהַתִּֽמֹרִ֖ים palm ornament H8561 — appearing just 20 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.
Shared distinctive vocabulary
וְהַתִּֽמֹרִ֖ים palm ornament H8561 occurs in 16 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:
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Hebrew & Septuagint length
In English translation the verse runs 20 words from the Hebrew and 11 from the Septuagint (LXX English) — the Septuagint runs noticeably shorter here. See the side-by-side →
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 9 Hebrew tokens and 12 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.
Topical passages linked to Ezekiel 41:20 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.
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The same verse in the two great witnesses to the Old Testament, shown verse-for-verse.
Here the Septuagint runs noticeably shorter than the Hebrew — LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) 11 words vs World English Bible 20. A rough length comparison of the two English translations, not a word-level alignment — read both below.
These are two independent witnesses, not word-aligned to each other, and the Septuagint is shown in lemma (dictionary) form.
מֵהָאָ֨רֶץ֙ עַד מֵעַ֣ל הַפֶּ֔תַח הַכְּרוּבִ֥ים וְהַתִּֽמֹרִ֖ים עֲשׂוּיִ֑ם וְקִ֖יר הַׄהֵׄיׄכָֽׄלׄ
from the ground to above the door were cherubim and palm trees made: thus was the wall of the temple.
World English Bible · Public Domain
ἐκ ὁ ἔδαφος ἕως ὁ φάτνωμα ὁ χερουβείμ καί ὁ φοῖνιξ διαγλύφω
From the floor to the ceiling were cherubs and palm-trees carved.
LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) · Public Domain
On this verse, John Gill's Exposition discusses the Septuagint’s reading. Read the note in Commentary ↓
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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מֵאַרְעָא עַד לְעֵלָא מִתַּרְעָא כְּרוּבִין וְכוּתְרָן גְלִיפָן וְכֵן לְכָתְלָא דְהֵיכָלָא:
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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 9 words (9 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is timmôr (“palm ornament”). The Greek Septuagint runs shorter here. A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Commentary
Notes on Ezekiel 41:20 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
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.
Adam Clarke's Commentary
Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible (1810–1826) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers
A Bible Commentary for English Readers, edited by Charles John Ellicott (1878–1897) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword 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.
Whedon's Commentary on the Bible
Daniel D. Whedon
Daniel D. Whedon (gen. ed.), Commentary on the Old and New Testaments (1874–1909) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
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.