Ezekiel 42:5
Strong's Lexicon
Now the upper
הָעֶלְיוֹנֹ֖ת (hā·‘el·yō·w·nōṯ)
Article | Adjective - feminine plural
Strong's Hebrew 5945: adj 1) high, upper 1a) of Davidic king exalted above monarchs n m 2) Highest, Most High 2a) name of God 2b) of rulers, either monarchs or angel-princes

chambers
וְהַלְּשָׁכ֥וֹת (wə·hal·lə·šā·ḵō·wṯ)
Conjunctive waw, Article | Noun - feminine plural
Strong's Hebrew 3957: 1) room, chamber, hall, cell

[were] smaller
קְצֻר֑וֹת (qə·ṣu·rō·wṯ)
Noun - feminine plural
Strong's Hebrew 7114: 1) to be short, be impatient, be vexed, be grieved 1a) (Qal) to be short 1b) (Piel) to shorten 1c) (Hiphil) to shorten 2) to reap, harvest 2a) (Qal) to reap, harvest 2b) (Hiphil) to reap, harvest

because
כִּֽי־ (kî-)
Conjunction
Strong's Hebrew 3588: 1) that, for, because, when, as though, as, because that, but, then, certainly, except, surely, since 1a) that 1a1) yea, indeed 1b) when (of time) 1b1) when, if, though (with a concessive force) 1c) because, since (causal connection) 1d) but (after negative) 1e) that if, for if, indeed if, for though, but if 1f) but rather, but 1g) except that 1h) only, nevertheless 1i) surely 1j) that is 1k) but if 1l) for though 1m) forasmuch as, for therefore

the galleries
אַתִּיקִ֜ים (’at·tî·qîm)
Noun - masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 862: 1) gallery, porch

took more space
יוֹכְל֨וּ (yō·wḵ·lū)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 3201: 1) to prevail, overcome, endure, have power, be able 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to be able, be able to gain or accomplish, be able to endure, be able to reach 1a2) to prevail, prevail over or against, overcome, be victor 1a3) to have ability, have strength

from the chambers
מֵהֵ֗נָה (mê·hê·nāh)
Preposition-m | Pronoun - third person feminine plural
Strong's Hebrew 2007: 1) they, these, the same, who

on the lower
מֵֽהַתַּחְתֹּנ֛וֹת (mê·hat·taḥ·tō·nō·wṯ)
Preposition-m, Article | Adjective - feminine plural
Strong's Hebrew 8481: 1) lower, lowest, nether

and middle floors
וּמֵהַתִּֽכֹנ֖וֹת (ū·mê·hat·ti·ḵō·nō·wṯ)
Conjunctive waw, Preposition-m, Article | Adjective - feminine plural
Strong's Hebrew 8484: 1) middle

of the building.
בִּנְיָֽן׃ (bin·yān)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 1146: 1) structure, building

Parallel Strong's
Berean Study Bible
Now the upper chambers were smaller because the galleries took more space from the chambers on the lower and middle floors of the building.

Young's Literal Translation
And the upper chambers [are] short, for the galleries contain more than these, than the lower, and than the middle one, of the building;

Holman Christian Standard Bible
The upper chambers were narrower because the galleries took away more space from them than from the lower and middle stories of the building.

New American Standard Bible
Now the upper chambers [were] smaller because the galleries took more [space] away from them than from the lower and middle ones in the building.

King James Bible
Now the upper chambers [were] shorter: for the galleries were higher than these, than the lower, and than the middlemost of the building.
Parallel Verses
New International Version
Now the upper rooms were narrower, for the galleries took more space from them than from the rooms on the lower and middle floors of the building.

New Living Translation
Each of the two upper levels of rooms was narrower than the one beneath it because the upper levels had to allow space for walkways in front of them.

English Standard Version
Now the upper chambers were narrower, for the galleries took more away from them than from the lower and middle chambers of the building.

New American Standard Bible
Now the upper chambers were smaller because the galleries took more space away from them than from the lower and middle ones in the building.

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

Holman Christian Standard Bible
The upper chambers were narrower because the galleries took away more space from them than from the lower and middle stories of the building.

International Standard Version
The upper chambers were narrower, since the galleries required more space than did the lower and middle portions of the building.

NET Bible
Now the upper chambers were narrower, because the galleries took more space from them than from the lower and middle chambers of the building.

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

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

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
















Cross References
Ezekiel 41:15
And he measured the length of the building over against the separate place which was behind it, and the galleries thereof on the one side and on the other side, an hundred cubits, with the inner temple, and the porches of the court;

Ezekiel 42:3
Over against the twenty cubits which were for the inner court, and over against the pavement which was for the utter court, was gallery against gallery in three stories.

Ezekiel 42:6
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.

Ezekiel 1:1
Now it came to pass in the thirtieth year, in the fourth month, in the fifth day of the month, as I was among the captives by the river of Chebar, that the heavens were opened, and I saw visions of God.

Ezekiel 42:4
And before the chambers was a walk of ten cubits breadth inward, a way of one cubit; and their doors toward the north.

Ezekiel 42:2
Before the length of an hundred cubits was the north door, and the breadth was fifty cubits.

Ezekiel 42:7
And the wall that was without over against the chambers, toward the utter court on the forepart of the chambers, the length thereof was fifty cubits.

Ezekiel 42:8
For the length of the chambers that were in the utter court was fifty cubits: and, lo, before the temple were an hundred cubits.
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