Ezekiel 41:7

KJV1611 – Modern English

And there was an enlarging, and a winding staircase still upward to the side chambers; for the winding staircase of the house went still upward all around the house: therefore the width of the house was still upward, and increased from the lowest chamber to the highest by the middle section.

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Other Translations

  • Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

    The side rooms became wider as they went higher, because the temple walls narrowed at each upward level. A stairway allowed access from the lower story to the upper story through the middle story.

  • King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

    And 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.

  • American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

    And the side-chambers were broader as they encompassed [the house] higher and higher; for the encompassing of the house went higher and higher round about the house: therefore the breadth of the house [continued] upward; and so one went up [from] the lowest [chamber] to the highest by the middle [chamber].

  • King James Version with Strong's Numbers

    And 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.

  • Coverdale Bible (1535)

    The syde chambres were the hyer the wyder, and had steppes thorow them rounde aboute ye house. Thus was it wyder aboue, that from the lowest men might go to the hyest & mydde chabers.

  • Geneva Bible (1560)

    And it was large and went rounde mounting vpwarde to the chambers: for the staire of the house was mounting vpwarde, rounde about the house: therefore the house was larger vpward: so they went vp from the lowest chamber to the hiest by the middes.

  • Bishops' Bible (1568)

    Ther was an enlarging, and a winding about, mounting still vpwarde to the chabers: for the staire of the house was mounting still vpward round about the house, therfore the house was larger vpwarde: so they went vp from the lowest chamber to the highest by the midst.

  • Authorized King James Version (1611)

    And [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.

  • Webster's Bible (1833)

    The side-chambers were broader as they encompassed [the house] higher and higher; for the encompassing of the house went higher and higher round about the house: therefore the breadth of the house [continued] upward; and so one went up [from] the lowest [chamber] to the highest by the middle [chamber].

  • Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

    And a broad place and a turning place still upwards `are' to the side-chambers, for the turning round of the house `is' still upwards all round about the house: therefore the breadth of the house `is' upwards, and so the lower one goeth up unto the higher by the midst.

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    And the side-chambers were broader as they encompassed `the house' higher and higher; for the encompassing of the house went higher and higher round about the house: therefore the breadth of the house `continued' upward; and so one went up `from' the lowest `chamber' to the highest by the middle `chamber'.

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    And the side-chambers were broader as they encompassed [the house] higher and higher; for the encompassing of the house went higher and higher round about the house: therefore the breadth of the house [continued] upward; and so one went up [from] the lowest [chamber] to the highest by the middle [chamber] .

  • Bible in Basic English (1941)

    The side-rooms became wider as they went higher up the house, by the amount of the space let into the wall up round about the house, because of the inlets in the house; and one went up from the lowest floor by steps to the middle, and from the middle to the upper floor.

  • World English Bible (2000)

    The side rooms were broader as they encompassed [the house] higher and higher; for the encompassing of the house went higher and higher around the house: therefore the breadth of the house [continued] upward; and so one went up [from] the lowest [room] to the highest by the middle [room].

  • NET Bible® (New English Translation)

    The side chambers surrounding the temple were wider at each successive story; for the structure surrounding the temple went up story by story all around the temple. For this reason the width of the temple increased as it went up, and one went up from the lowest story to the highest by the way of the middle story.

Referenced Verses

  • 1 Kgs 6:8 : 8 The door for the middle chamber was on the right side of the house; and they went up with winding stairs into the middle chamber, and from the middle into the third.
  • Matt 13:32 : 32 Though it is the smallest of all seeds, yet when it grows, it is the largest of garden plants and becomes a tree, so that the birds come and perch in its branches.
  • Heb 6:1 : 1 Therefore, leaving the foundational teachings of Christ, let us move on to maturity, not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works, and of faith toward God,

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Ezek 41:5-6
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    5After, he measured the wall of the house, six cubits; and the width of every side chamber, four cubits, all around the house on every side.

    6And the side chambers were three, one above another, and thirty in order; and they entered into the wall of the house for the side chambers all around, that they might have hold, but they did not hold in the wall of the house.

  • Ezek 41:8-17
    10 verses
    83%

    8I also saw the height of the house all around: the foundations of the side chambers were a full reed of six great cubits.

    9The thickness of the wall, which was for the side chamber outside, was five cubits: and the space that was left was the place of the side chambers that were within.

    10And between the chambers was a width of twenty cubits all around the house on every side.

    11And the doors of the side chambers faced the space that was left, one door toward the north and another door toward the south: and the width of the space that was left was five cubits all around.

    12Now the building that faced the separate place at the end toward the west was seventy cubits wide; and the wall of the building was five cubits thick all around, and its length ninety cubits.

    13So he measured the house, one hundred cubits long; and the separate place and the building, with its walls, were one hundred cubits long;

    14Also the width of the face of the house and of the separate place toward the east was one hundred cubits.

    15And he measured the length of the building opposite the separate place that was behind it, along with its galleries on the one side and on the other side, one hundred cubits, with the inner temple and the porches of the court;

    16The doorposts, and the narrow windows, and the galleries around their three stories, opposite the door, paneled with wood all around, and from the ground up to the windows, and the windows were covered;

    17To that above the door, even to the inner house, and outside, and by all the wall all around inside and outside, by measure.

  • 8The door for the middle chamber was on the right side of the house; and they went up with winding stairs into the middle chamber, and from the middle into the third.

  • Ezek 42:3-11
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    80%

    3Opposite the twenty cubits which were for the inner court, and opposite the pavement for the outer court, was gallery against gallery in three stories.

    4And before the chambers there was a walk of ten cubits wide inward, a pathway of one cubit; and their doors faced north.

    5Now the upper chambers were shorter: because the galleries were higher than these, than the lower, and than the middle of the building.

    6For they were in three stories, but did not have pillars like the pillars of the courts: therefore the building was constrained more than the lowest and the middle from the ground.

    7And the wall that was outside opposite the chambers, toward the outer court on the front of the chambers, the length of it was fifty cubits.

    8For the length of the chambers that were in the outer court was fifty cubits: and behold, in front of the temple were one hundred cubits.

    9And from under these chambers was the entrance on the east side, as one goes into them from the outer court.

    10The chambers were in the thickness of the wall of the court toward the east, opposite the separate area, and opposite the building.

    11And the way before them was like the appearance of the chambers which were toward the north, as long as they, and as wide as they: and all their exits were both according to their fashions, and according to their doors.

  • 1 Kgs 6:4-6
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    80%

    4And for the house he made windows with narrow lights.

    5And against the wall of the house he built chambers all around, against the walls of the house all around, both of the temple and of the oracle; and he made chambers all around.

    6The lowest chamber was five cubits wide, the middle six cubits wide, and the third seven cubits wide; for he made narrowed rests all around outside of the house, so the beams would not be fastened into the walls of the house.

  • Ezek 40:6-7
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    6Then he went to the gateway facing east and went up its stairs and measured the threshold of the gateway, which was one reed wide, and the other threshold was also one reed wide.

    7Each gate chamber was one reed long and one reed wide; between the gate chambers was a space of five cubits, and the threshold of the gateway by the vestibule of the inside gate was one reed.

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    36Also its gate chambers, its posts, and its arches; it had windows all around, its length was fifty cubits and its width twenty-five cubits.

    37Its gateposts faced the outer court; palm trees were on its gateposts on this side and on that side; and going up to it were eight steps.

  • 3Then he went inward and measured the post of the door, two cubits; and the door, six cubits; and the width of the door, seven cubits.

  • 10And then he built chambers against all the house, five cubits high, and they were supported by cedar timbers.

  • 73%

    33Its gate chambers, its posts, and its arches were according to these measurements. And there were windows in it and in its arches all around; it was fifty cubits long and twenty-five cubits wide.

    34Its arches faced the outer court, and palm trees were on its gateposts, on this side and on that side; and going up to it were eight steps.

  • 26Seven steps led up to it, and its arches were in front of them; and it had palm trees on its gateposts, one on this side and another on that side.

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    16And he built twenty cubits on the sides of the house, both the floor and the walls with cedar boards; he even built it inside for the oracle, for the most holy place.

    17And the house, that is, the temple in front, was forty cubits long.

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    12There was a barrier before the gate chambers, one cubit on this side and one cubit on that side; the chambers were six cubits on this side and six cubits on that side.

    13Then he measured the gateway from the roof of one gate chamber to the roof of the other, the width was twenty-five cubits as door faced door.

  • 72%

    48Then he brought me to the vestibule of the temple and measured the doorposts of the vestibule, five cubits on this side and five cubits on that side; and the width of the gateway was three cubits on this side and three cubits on that side.

    49The length of the vestibule was twenty cubits, and the width eleven cubits. By the steps which led up to it there were pillars by the doorposts, one on this side and another on that side.

  • 1Then he brought me out to the outer court, by way of the north: and he brought me into the chamber that was opposite the separate area, which was before the building toward the north.

  • 15Now when he had finished measuring the inner house, he brought me out toward the gate that faced east, and measured it all around.

  • 17Then he brought me into the outer court, and there were chambers and a pavement made all around the court; thirty chambers faced the pavement.

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    29Its gate chambers, its posts, and its arches were according to these same measurements; and there were windows in it and in its arches all around; it was fifty cubits long and twenty-five cubits wide.

    30The arches all around were twenty-five cubits long and five cubits wide.

    31Its arches faced the outer court, palm trees were on its gateposts, and going up to it were eight steps.

  • 2 Chr 3:4-5
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    4And the porch that was in the front of the house, the length of it was according to the width of the house, twenty cubits, and the height was one hundred and twenty: and he overlaid it within with pure gold.

    5And the greater house he paneled with fir tree, which he overlaid with fine gold, and set thereon palm trees and chains.

  • 20From the ground up to above the door were cherubim and palm trees made, and on the wall of the temple.

  • 45Then he said to me, "This chamber which faces south is for the priests who have charge of the temple.