The Meaning of Ezekiel 42:6 Explained

Ezekiel 42:6

KJV: For 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.

YLT: for they are threefold, and they have no pillars as the pillars of the court, therefore it hath been kept back -- more than the lower and than the middle one -- from the ground.

Darby: For they were in three stories, but had not pillars as the pillars of the courts; therefore the third story was straitened more than the lowest and the middle-most from the ground.

ASV: For they were in three stories, and they had not pillars as the pillars of the courts: therefore the uppermost was straitened more than the lowest and the middlemost from the ground.

KJV Reverse Interlinear

For 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. 

What does Ezekiel 42:6 Mean?

Chapter Summary: Ezekiel 42

1  The chambers for the priests
13  The use thereof
15  The measures of the outward court

What do the individual words in Ezekiel 42:6 mean?

For in three [stories] they [were] and not did have pillars like the pillars of the courts upon thus the [upper] [level] was shortened more than the lower and middle levels from the ground up
כִּ֤י מְשֻׁלָּשׁוֹת֙ הֵ֔נָּה וְאֵ֤ין לָהֶן֙ עַמּוּדִ֔ים כְּעַמּוּדֵ֖י הַחֲצֵר֑וֹת עַל־ כֵּ֣ן נֶאֱצַ֗ל מֵהַתַּחְתּוֹנ֛וֹת וּמֵהַתִּֽיכֹנ֖וֹת מֵהָאָֽרֶץ

מְשֻׁלָּשׁוֹת֙  in  three  [stories] 
Parse: Verb, Pual, Participle, feminine plural
Root: שָׁלַשׁ  
Sense: to do a third time, do three times, divide in three parts.
הֵ֔נָּה  they  [were] 
Parse: Pronoun, third person feminine plural
Root: הֵנָּה  
Sense: they, these, the same, who.
וְאֵ֤ין  and  not 
Parse: Conjunctive waw, Adverb
Root: אַיִן 
Sense: nothing, not, nought n.
לָהֶן֙  did  have 
Parse: Preposition, third person feminine plural
עַמּוּדִ֔ים  pillars 
Parse: Noun, masculine plural
Root: עַמּוּד  
Sense: pillar, column.
כְּעַמּוּדֵ֖י  like  the  pillars 
Parse: Preposition-k, Noun, masculine plural construct
Root: עַמּוּד  
Sense: pillar, column.
הַחֲצֵר֑וֹת  of  the  courts 
Parse: Article, Noun, common plural
Root: חָצֵר 
Sense: court, enclosure.
עַל־  upon 
Parse: Preposition
Root: עַל 
Sense: upon, on the ground of, according to, on account of, on behalf of, concerning, beside, in addition to, together with, beyond, above, over, by, on to, towards, to, against.
כֵּ֣ן  thus 
Parse: Adverb
Root: כֵּן 
Sense: so, therefore, thus.
נֶאֱצַ֗ל  the  [upper]  [level]  was  shortened 
Parse: Verb, Nifal, Perfect, third person masculine singular
Root: אָצַל  
Sense: to lay aside, reserve, withdraw, withhold.
מֵהַתַּחְתּוֹנ֛וֹת  more  than  the  lower 
Parse: Preposition-m, Article, Adjective, feminine plural
Root: תַּחְתֹּון  
Sense: lower, lowest, nether.
וּמֵהַתִּֽיכֹנ֖וֹת  and  middle  levels 
Parse: Conjunctive waw, Preposition-m, Article, Adjective, feminine plural
Root: תִּיכֹון  
Sense: middle.
מֵהָאָֽרֶץ  from  the  ground  up 
Parse: Preposition-m, Article, Noun, feminine singular
Root: אֶרֶץ  
Sense: land, earth.

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