Ezekiel 40:30

30 And [there were] porticos {all the way around} [its] length, twenty-five cubits; and [its] width [was] five cubits.

Ezekiel 40:30 Meaning and Commentary

Ezekiel 40:30

And the arches round about were five and twenty cubits long,
&c.] That is, high; this was the height of them; these were the frontispiece of the gate to the inner court without, and faced the outward court, as appears by the following verse; these were a kind of portico over the eight steps to this gate after mentioned; they were fourteen yards and three inches high, from the bottom to the top of them: and five cubits broad;
two yards and a half, one foot and three inches; and which very probably were the breadth of the steps that came up to them: none of these arches were in the second temple, as Lipman ^F13 observes.

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FOOTNOTES:

F13 Tzurath Beth Hamikdash, sect. 22.

Ezekiel 40:30 In-Context

28 And he brought me to [the] inner courtyard through the gate of the south, and he measured the south gate, [and it had] measurements like {the others}.

29 And its alcoves and its pilasters and its porticos [were] [just] like these measurements. And [it had] windows for it and for its porticos {all the way around}, fifty cubits along [its length], and twenty-five cubits [wide].

30 And [there were] porticos {all the way around} [its] length, twenty-five cubits; and [its] width [was] five cubits.

31 And its porticos [were] to the outer courtyard, and palm tree images [were] on its pilasters, and eight steps [were for] its stairs.

32 And he brought me to the inner courtyard [by way of] the east [gate], and he measured the gate [as] [just] like {the other measurements}.

Footnotes

• [a] Literally "all around, all around"
• [b] That is, 43.75 feet
• [c] That is, 8.75 feet, which differs from 40:9; the LXX and some Greek versions lack this verse altogether