1 Kings 6:17
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And the temple itself, before the doors of the oracle, was forty cubits long.

Context
The Temple's Interior
16And he built up twenty cubits with boards of cedar at the hinder part of the temple, from the floor to the top: and made the inner house of the oracle to be the holy of holies. 17And the temple itself, before the doors of the oracle, was forty cubits long.18And all the house was covered within with cedar, having the turnings, and the joints thereof artfully wrought, and carvings projecting out: all was covered with boards of cedar: and no stone could be seen in the wall at all.…
Cross References
1 Kings 6:16
And he built up twenty cubits with boards of cedar at the hinder part of the temple, from the floor to the top: and made the inner house of the oracle to be the holy of holies.

1 Kings 6:18
And all the house was covered within with cedar, having the turnings, and the joints thereof artfully wrought, and carvings projecting out: all was covered with boards of cedar: and no stone could be seen in the wall at all.

2 Chronicles 3:5
And the greater house he ceiled with deal boards, and overlaid them with plates of fine gold throughout: and he graved in them palm trees, and like little chains interlaced with one another.

Ezekiel 41:2
And the breadth of the gate was ten cubits: and the sides of the gate five cubits on this side, and five cubits on that side: and he measured the length thereof forty cubits, and the breadth twenty cubits.

Lexicon
And the main hall
הַהֵיכָ֥ל (ha·hê·ḵāl)
Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 1964: A large public building, palace, temple

in front of [this room]
לִפְנָֽי׃ (lip̄·nāy)
Preposition-l | Noun - masculine singular construct | first person common singular
Strong's Hebrew 6440: The face

was
הָיָ֣ה (hā·yāh)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 1961: To fall out, come to pass, become, be

forty
וְאַרְבָּעִ֥ים (wə·’ar·bā·‘îm)
Conjunctive waw | Number - common plural
Strong's Hebrew 705: Forty

cubits [long].
בָּאַמָּ֖ה (bā·’am·māh)
Preposition-b, Article | Noun - feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 520: A mother, a cubit, a door-base


Additional Translations
And the main hall in front of this room was forty cubits long.And the house, that is, the temple before it, was forty cubits long.

And the house, that is, the temple before the oracle , was forty cubits long .

And the temple was forty cubits in extent,

And the house, that is, the temple before it, was forty cubits [long].

And the house, that is, the temple before the oracle, was forty cubits long.

And the house, that is, the temple before it, was forty cubits long.

The house, that is, the temple before [the oracle], was forty cubits [long].

And forty by the cubit was the house, it is the temple before it.
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