KING JAMES BIBLE · PCE
Ezekiel 42:5–8
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Ezekiel 42:5
5Now the upper chambers were shorter: for the galleries were higher than these, than the lower, and than the middlemost of the building.
5‖‖Now the vpper-chambers were shorter: for the galleries were higher then these, then the lower, and then the middlemost of the building.
- Or, did eate of these.
- Or, and the building consisted of the lower and the middle-most.
Ezekiel 42:6
6For 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.
6For they were in three stories, but had not pillars as the pillars of the courts: therefore the building was straitned more then the lowest, and the middlemost from the ground.
Ezekiel 42:7
7And the wall that was without over against the chambers, toward the utter court on the forepart of the chambers, the length thereof was fifty cubits.
7And the wall that was without ouer against the chambers towards the vtter court on the forepart of the chambers, the length thereof was fiftie cubites.
Ezekiel 42:8
8For the length of the chambers that were in the utter court was fifty cubits: and, lo, before the temple were an hundred cubits.
8For the length of the chambers that were in the vtter court was fiftie cubites: and loe, before the Temple were an hundreth cubites.
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DEFINED WORDS
Ezekiel 42:5
Highest in place. Highest in power or authority.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
Rooms or enclosed spaces within a house, building, or other structure.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Brief or limited in length, time, amount, or reach; lacking what is required.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Covered walks, corridors, or elevated platforms forming parts of buildings.
Meaning drawn from: Approved KJV word-family definition · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
Raised or far above; great in height, rank, degree, or importance; as an adverb, greatly or aloft.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828
To bring down; to reduce or humble; to lessen; to diminish; to reduce, as value or amount; to suffer to sink downwards.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
APPROVED COMBINED MEANING
middlemost
Situated in the middle; central.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
A structure made for habitation or use; also the act of constructing.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
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Ezekiel 42:6
The number following two and preceding four.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
Levels or floors of a building.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
But; marking a contrast or qualification in the sentence.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Enclosed yards, royal residences or attendants, or places of judgment, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
A structure made for habitation or use; also the act of constructing.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
A greater amount, number, or degree; in a greater degree.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Most low, humble, deep, or reduced in rank.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
APPROVED COMBINED MEANING
middlemost
Situated in the middle; central.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
The earth or soil; a foundation, basis, or reason; also to establish firmly.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
DEFINED WORDS
Ezekiel 42:7
A structure raised to enclose, divide, or defend a place; figuratively, a defense or protection.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
Outside; not within; lacking; free from; or in the absence of.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Skeat 1893 · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Opposed to, contrary to, facing, toward, or in contact with; in some settings, exposed to or ready for a stated time.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893
Rooms or enclosed spaces within a house, building, or other structure.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
In the direction of; in relation to; approaching; or inclined and ready, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893
To speak, declare, or make known; also outermost or complete, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893
An enclosed yard, a royal residence or attendants, or a place of judgment.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
The part first in time; the part most advanced in place; the anterior part; the beginning.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
The extent from one end to another; also duration or a stated span of time.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
The number equal to five times ten.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
DEFINED WORDS
Ezekiel 42:8
The extent from one end to another; also duration or a stated span of time.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Rooms or enclosed spaces within a house, building, or other structure.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
To speak, declare, or make known; also outermost or complete, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893
An enclosed yard, a royal residence or attendants, or a place of judgment.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
The number equal to five times ten.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
Earlier than in time; in front of; in the presence of; or prior in order or rank, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
A house or place dedicated to divine worship; also the side of the head.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
The number equal to ten times ten.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
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From verse 5
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Open the full verse study7And there was an enlarging, and a winding about still upward to the side chambers: for the winding about of the house went still upward round about the house: therefore the breadth of the house was still upward, and so increased from the lowest chamber to the highest by the midst.
From verse 6
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Open the full verse study6And 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.
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Open the full verse study8The 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.
From verse 7
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Open the full verse study10The chambers were in the thickness of the wall of the court toward the east, over against the separate place, and over against the building.
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Open the full verse study12And according to the doors of the chambers that were toward the south was a door in the head of the way, even the way directly before the wall toward the east, as one entereth into them.
From verse 8
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Open the full verse study13So he measured the house, an hundred cubits long; and the separate place, and the building, with the walls thereof, an hundred cubits long;
14Also the breadth of the face of the house, and of the separate place toward the east, an hundred cubits.
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