Yechezkel 40:9

9 Then he measured the ulam of the sha’ar, eight cubits; and the jambs thereof, two cubits; and the ulam of the sha’ar was on the inside.

Yechezkel 40:9 Meaning and Commentary

Ezekiel 40:9

Then measured he the porch of the gate, eight cubits
This could not be the length of the porch from gate to gate, or from east to west, as Lipman ^F26; since there were five cubits between every little chamber; but the breadth of it from north to south, and was four yards and two feet over: and the posts thereof two cubits;
these were columns or pillars placed on each side of the porch, or at the portal of the gate, of two cubits, or a yard and half a foot thick; which, added to the other eight cubits, made the entrance ten cubits, as in ( Ezekiel 40:11 ) what these posts, pillars, or columns signify, see on ( Ezekiel 40:14 Ezekiel 40:16 ) : and the porch of the gate was inward;
this was the porch of the inward gate; or this was the measure of the porch within the gate.

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FOOTNOTES:

F26 Ibid. (Lipman. Tzaurath Beth Hamikdash), sect. 6.

Yechezkel 40:9 In-Context

7 And every ta (recess) was one rod wide, and one rod deep; and between the ta’im (rooms) were five cubits; and the saf (threshold) of the sha’ar next to the ulam of the sha’ar on the inside was one rod.

8 He [the angelic being] measured also the ulam of the sha’ar on the inside, one rod.

9 Then he measured the ulam of the sha’ar, eight cubits; and the jambs thereof, two cubits; and the ulam of the sha’ar was on the inside.

10 And the ta’im of the sha’ar eastward were shloshah on this side, and shloshah on that side; they three were of the same measurement; and the jambs had the same measurement on this side and on that side.

11 And he measured the width of the petach (opening) of the sha’ar, ten cubits; and the length of the sha’ar, thirteen cubits.