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Ezekiel 40

Ezek. 40:38 KJV (With Strong’s)

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And the chambers
lishkah (Hebrew #3957)
a room in a building (whether for storage, eating, or lodging)
KJV usage: chamber, parlour. Compare 5393.
Pronounce: lish-kaw'
Origin: from an unused root of uncertain meaning
and the entries
pethach (Hebrew #6607)
an opening (literally), i.e. door (gate) or entrance way
KJV usage: door, entering (in), entrance (-ry), gate, opening, place.
Pronounce: peh'-thakh
Origin: from 6605
thereof were by the posts
'ayil (Hebrew #352)
properly, strength; hence, anything strong; specifically a chief (politically); also a ram (from his strength); a pilaster (as a strong support); an oak or other strong tree
KJV usage: mighty (man), lintel, oak, post, ram, tree.
Pronounce: ah'-yil
Origin: from the same as 193
of the gates
sha`ar (Hebrew #8179)
an opening, i.e. door or gate
KJV usage: city, door, gate, port (X -er).
Pronounce: shah'-ar
Origin: from 8176 in its original sense
, where they washed
duwach (Hebrew #1740)
to thrust away; figuratively, to cleanse
KJV usage: cast out, purge, wash.
Pronounce: doo'-akh
Origin: a primitive root
the burnt offering
`olah (Hebrew #5930)
feminine active participle of 5927; a step or (collectively, stairs, as ascending); usually a holocaust (as going up in smoke)
KJV usage: ascent, burnt offering (sacrifice), go up to. See also 5766.
Pronounce: o-law'
Origin: or mowlah {o-law'}
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Burnt Offering or Sacrifice,
Chamber,
Gate,
Offering; Offering Up,
Washing

Cross References

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the chambers.
Ezek. 40:12• 12The space also before the little chambers was one cubit on this side, and the space was one cubit on that side: and the little chambers were six cubits on this side, and six cubits on that side. (Ezek. 40:12)
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Ezek. 41:10‑11• 10And between the chambers was the wideness of twenty cubits round about the house on every side.
 11And the doors of the side chambers were toward the place that was left, one door toward the north, and another door toward the south: and the breadth of the place that was left was five cubits round about. (Ezek. 41:10‑11)
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1 Kings 6:8• 8The door for the middle chamber was in the right side of the house: and they went up with winding stairs into the middle chamber, and out of the middle into the third. (1 Kings 6:8)
where.This place, where the legs and entrails of the sacrifices, especially of the burnt offerings, were washed, was just within the portico of the north entrance to the inner court, or court of the priests.
An allusion to this is most probably made by the inspired apostle when writing his Epistle to the Hebrews, at the 10th chapter and 22nd verse.
"Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water."
Lev. 1:9• 9But his inwards and his legs shall he wash in water: and the priest shall burn all on the altar, to be a burnt sacrifice, an offering made by fire, of a sweet savor unto the Lord. (Lev. 1:9)
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Lev. 8:21• 21And he washed the inwards and the legs in water; and Moses burnt the whole ram upon the altar: it was a burnt sacrifice for a sweet savor, and an offering made by fire unto the Lord; as the Lord commanded Moses. (Lev. 8:21)
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Heb. 10:22• 22Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water. (Heb. 10:22)

J. N. Darby Translation

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And there was a cell and its entry by the posts of the gates; there they rinseda the burnt-offering.

JND Translation Notes

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"Thoroughly washed." see 2 Chron. 4.6; as "scoured out," Isa. 4.4.