1 Kings 6:17
Strong's Lexicon
And the main hall
הַהֵיכָ֥ל (ha·hê·ḵāl)
Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 1964: 1) palace, temple, nave, sanctuary 1a) palace 1b) temple (palace of God as king) 1c) hall, nave (of Ezekiel's temple) 1d) temple (of heavenly temple)

in front of [this room]
לִפְנָֽי׃ (lip̄·nāy)
Preposition-l | Noun - masculine singular construct | first person common singular
Strong's Hebrew 6440: 1) face 1a) face, faces 1b) presence, person 1c) face (of seraphim or cherubim) 1d) face (of animals) 1e) face, surface (of ground) 1f) as adv of loc/temp 1f1) before and behind, toward, in front of, forward, formerly, from beforetime, before 1g) with prep 1g1) in front of, before, to the front of, in the presence of, in the face of, at the face or front of, from the presence of, from before, from before the face of

was
הָיָ֣ה (hā·yāh)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 1961: 1) to be, become, come to pass, exist, happen, fall out 1a) (Qal) 1a1) ----- 1a1a) to happen, fall out, occur, take place, come about, come to pass 1a1b) to come about, come to pass 1a2) to come into being, become 1a2a) to arise, appear, come 1a2b) to become 1a2b1) to become 1a2b2) to become like 1a2b3) to be instituted, be established 1a3) to be 1a3a) to exist, be in existence 1a3b) to abide, remain, continue (with word of place or time) 1a3c) to stand, lie, be in, be at, be situated (with word of locality) 1a3d) to accompany, be with 1b) (Niphal) 1b1) to occur, come to pass, be done, be brought about 1b2) to be done, be finished, be gone

forty
וְאַרְבָּעִ֥ים (wə·’ar·bā·‘îm)
Conjunctive waw | Number - common plural
Strong's Hebrew 705: 1) forty

cubits [long].
בָּאַמָּ֖ה (bā·’am·māh)
Preposition-b, Article | Noun - feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 520: 1) cubit-a measure of distance (the forearm), roughly 18 in (. 5m). There are several cubits used in the OT, the cubit of a man or common cubit (De 3:11), the legal cubit or cubit of the sanctuary (Eze 40:5) plus others. See a Bible Dictionary for a complete treatment.

Parallel Strong's
Berean Study Bible
And the main hall in front of this room was forty cubits long.

Young's Literal Translation
And forty by the cubit was the house, it [is] the temple before [it].

Holman Christian Standard Bible
The temple, that is, the sanctuary in front of the most holy place, was 60 feet long.

New American Standard Bible
The house, that is, the nave in front of [the inner sanctuary], was forty cubits [long].

King James Bible
And the house, that [is], the temple before it, was forty cubits [long].
Parallel Verses
New International Version
The main hall in front of this room was forty cubits long.

New Living Translation
The main room of the Temple, outside the Most Holy Place, was 60 feet long.

English Standard Version
The house, that is, the nave in front of the inner sanctuary, was forty cubits long.

New American Standard Bible
The house, that is, the nave in front of the inner sanctuary, was forty cubits long.

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

Holman Christian Standard Bible
The temple, that is, the sanctuary in front of the most holy place, was 60 feet long.

International Standard Version
The rest of the main nave in the front was 40 cubits long.

NET Bible
The main hall in front of the inner sanctuary was 60 feet long.

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

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

Young's Literal Translation
And forty by the cubit was the house, it is the temple before it.
















Cross References
1 Kings 6:16
And he built twenty cubits on the sides of the house, both the floor and the walls with boards of cedar: he even built them for it within, even for the oracle, even for the most holy place.

1 Kings 6:18
And the cedar of the house within was carved with knops and open flowers: all was cedar; there was no stone seen.

2 Chronicles 3:5
And the greater house he cieled with fir tree, which he overlaid with fine gold, and set thereon palm trees and chains.

Ezekiel 41:2
And the breadth of the door was ten cubits; and the sides of the door were five cubits on the one side, and five cubits on the other side: and he measured the length thereof, forty cubits: and the breadth, twenty cubits.

1 Kings 1:1
Now king David was old and stricken in years; and they covered him with clothes, but he gat no heat.

1 Kings 6:15
And he built the walls of the house within with boards of cedar, both the floor of the house, and the walls of the cieling: and he covered them on the inside with wood, and covered the floor of the house with planks of fir.

1 Kings 6:14
So Solomon built the house, and finished it.

1 Kings 6:19
And the oracle he prepared in the house within, to set there the ark of the covenant of the LORD.

1 Kings 6:20
And the oracle in the forepart was twenty cubits in length, and twenty cubits in breadth, and twenty cubits in the height thereof: and he overlaid it with pure gold; and so covered the altar which was of cedar.
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