Ezekiel 40:9

9 Then he measured the porch of the gate, eight cubits; and its posts, two cubits; and the porch of the gate [was] inward.

Ezekiel 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.

Ezekiel 40:9 In-Context

7 And [every] little chamber [was] one reed long, and one reed broad; and between the little chambers [were] five cubits; and the threshhold of the gate by the porch of the gate within [was] one reed.

8 He measured also the porch of the gate within, one reed.

9 Then he measured the porch of the gate, eight cubits; and its posts, two cubits; and the porch of the gate [was] inward.

10 And the little chambers of the gate eastward [were] three on this side, and three on that side; they three [were] of one measure: and the posts had one measure on this side and on that side.

11 And he measured the breadth of the entry of the gate, ten cubits; [and] the length of the gate, thirteen cubits.