Ezekiel 42:5
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Where were the store chambers lower above: because they bore up the galleries, which appeared above out of them from he lower parts, and from the midst of the building.

were higher than these.

Context
Chambers for the Priests
4And before the chambers was a walk ten cubits broad, looking to the inner parts of a way of one cubit. And their doors were toward the north. 5Where were the store chambers lower above: because they bore up the galleries, which appeared above out of them from he lower parts, and from the midst of the building.6For they were of three stories, and had not pillars, as the pillars of the courts: therefore did they appear above out of the lower places, and out of the middle places, fifty cubits from the ground.…
Cross References
Ezekiel 41:15
And he measured the length of the building over against it, which was separated at the back of it: and the galleries on both sides a hundred cubits: and the inner temple, and the porches of the court.

Ezekiel 42:3
Over against the twenty cubits of the inner court, and over against the pavement of the outward court that was paved with stone, where there was a gallery joined to a triple gallery.

Ezekiel 42:6
For they were of three stories, and had not pillars, as the pillars of the courts: therefore did they appear above out of the lower places, and out of the middle places, fifty cubits from the ground.

Lexicon
Now the upper
הָעֶלְיוֹנֹ֖ת (hā·‘el·yō·w·nōṯ)
Article | Adjective - feminine plural
Strong's Hebrew 5945: An elevation, lofty, as title, the Supreme

chambers
וְהַלְּשָׁכ֥וֹת (wə·hal·lə·šā·ḵō·wṯ)
Conjunctive waw, Article | Noun - feminine plural
Strong's Hebrew 3957: Room, chamber, hall, cell

[were] smaller
קְצֻר֑וֹת (qə·ṣu·rō·wṯ)
Noun - feminine plural
Strong's Hebrew 7114: To dock off, curtail, to harvest

because
כִּֽי־ (kî-)
Conjunction
Strong's Hebrew 3588: A relative conjunction

the galleries
אַתִּיקִ֜ים (’at·tî·qîm)
Noun - masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 862: A ledge, offset in a, building

took more space
יוֹכְל֨וּ (yō·wḵ·lū)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 3201: To be able, have power

from the chambers
מֵהֵ֗נָה (mê·hê·nāh)
Preposition-m | Pronoun - third person feminine plural
Strong's Hebrew 2007: Themselves

on the lower
מֵֽהַתַּחְתֹּנ֛וֹת (mê·hat·taḥ·tō·nō·wṯ)
Preposition-m, Article | Adjective - feminine plural
Strong's Hebrew 8481: Lower, lowest

and middle floors
וּמֵהַתִּֽכֹנ֖וֹת (ū·mê·hat·ti·ḵō·nō·wṯ)
Conjunctive waw, Preposition-m, Article | Adjective - feminine plural
Strong's Hebrew 8484: Central

of the building.
בִּנְיָֽן׃ (bin·yān)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 1146: A structure


Additional Translations
Now the upper chambers were smaller because the galleries took more space from the chambers on the lower and middle floors of the building.Now the upper chambers were shorter: for the galleries were higher than these, than the lower, and than the middlemost of the building.

Now the upper chambers were shorter; for the galleries took away from these, more than from the lower and the middlemost, in the building.

And the upper walks were in like manner: for the peristyle projected from it, even from the range of columns below, and there was a space between; so were there a peristyle and a space between, and so were there two porticos.

And the upper cells, because the galleries encroached on them, were shorter than the lower, and than the middle-most of the building.

Now the upper chambers were shorter: for the galleries took away from these, more than from the lower and the middlemost, in the building.

Now the upper chambers were shorter: for the galleries were higher than these, than the lower, and than the middlemost of the building.

Now the upper rooms were shorter; for the galleries took away from these, more than from the lower and the middle, in the building.

And the upper chambers are short, for the galleries contain more than these, than the lower, and than the middle one, of the building;
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