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Ezekiel 42

Ezek. 42:5 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Now the upper
'elyown (Hebrew #5945)
an elevation, i.e. (adj.) lofty (compar.); as title, the Supreme
KJV usage: (Most, on) high(-er, -est), upper(-most).
Pronounce: el-yone'
Origin: from 5927
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
were shorter
qatsar (Hebrew #7114)
to dock off, i.e. curtail (transitive or intransitive, literal or figurative); especially to harvest (grass or grain)
KJV usage: X at all, cut down, much discouraged, grieve, harvestman, lothe, mourn, reap(-er), (be, wax) short(-en, -er), straiten, trouble, vex.
Pronounce: kaw-tsar'
Origin: a primitive root
: for the galleries
'attuwq (Hebrew #862)
from 5423 in the sense of decreasing; a ledge or offset in a building
KJV usage: gallery.
Pronounce: at-tooke'
Origin: or mattiyq {at-teek'}
βwere higher
'akal (Hebrew #398)
to eat (literally or figuratively)
KJV usage: X at all, burn up, consume, devour(-er, up), dine, eat(-er, up), feed (with), food, X freely, X in...wise(-deed, plenty), (lay) meat, X quite.
Pronounce: aw-kal'
Origin: a primitive root
than these
hennah (Hebrew #2007)
themselves (often used emphatic for the copula, also in indirect relation)
KJV usage: X in, X such (and such things), their, (into) them, thence, therein, these, they (had), on this side, whose, wherein.
Pronounce: hane'-naw
Origin: prolongation for 2004
, γthan the lower
tachtown (Hebrew #8481)
from 8478; bottommost
KJV usage: lower(-est), nether(-most).
Pronounce: takh-tone'
Origin: or tachton {takh-tone'}
, and than the middlemost
tiykown (Hebrew #8484)
from 8432; central
KJV usage: middle(-most), midst.
Pronounce: tee-kone'
Origin: or tiykon {tee-kone'}
of the building
binyan (Hebrew #1146)
an edifice
KJV usage: building.
Pronounce: bin-yawn'
Origin: from 1129
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or, did eat of these.
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or, and the building consisted of the lower and the middle-most.

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Cross References

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were higher than these.
or, did eat of these.
Ezek. 41:7• 7And for the side-chambers there was an enlarging, and it went round about the house increasing upward; for the surrounding of the house increased upward round about the house; therefore the house had width upward, and so ascended from the lower story to the upper, by the middle one. (Ezek. 41:7)
than the lower, and than the middlemost of the building.
or,and the building consisted of the lower and the middlemost.
Ezek. 42:6• 6For they were in three stories, but had not pillars as the pillars of the courts; therefore the third story was straitened more than the lowest and the middle-most from the ground. (Ezek. 42:6)

J. N. Darby Translation

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