Ezekiel 42:19

Study note

Setting — The visionary narrator records a measuring figure’s action within the temple complex vision, proceeding from the south side measurement to the west side.

The words — סָבַ֖ב (sa.vav) = he turned/encircled; מָדַ֛ד (ma.dad) = he measured.

The thread — The measurement pattern continues directly in Ezekiel 42:18 and Ezekiel 42:20, where the four-sided boundary is completed.

Why it lands — The text establishes a fixed, uniform boundary that physically separates the holy from the common, requiring the reader to acknowledge divine order as the standard for access.

Drafted by a language model from the text, its original words and its cross-references, then checked against them. It can still be wrong: open the verse in the app to report it.