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Thisזֹאתis the instructionתּוֹרַתof the house:הַבָּיִתon the topעַל רֹאשׁof the mountainהָהָרallכָּלits territoryגְּבֻלוֹall aroundסָבִיב סָבִיבshall be most holy.קֹדֶשׁ קָדָשִׁיםLook,הִנֵּהthisזֹאתis the instructionתּוֹרַתof the house.הַבָּיִת
Ezekiel 43:12
Study it in the app“This is the instruction of the house: on the top of the mountain all its territory all around shall be most holy. Look, this is the instruction of the house.”
With the Hebrew beneath
Ezekiel 43:12, word by word
- is the instructionתּוֹרַתtorat
teaching of YHWH
What YHWH teaches his people so they may live.
Where else “torat” appears- of the houseבָּיִתbayit
temple
The temple: "the house of YHWH".
Where else “bayit” appears- on the topרֹאשׁrosh
top
Literally "the head": the highest part, as of a mountain.
Where else “rosh” appears- of the mountainהָרhar
mountain
A great rise of land, like Sinai or Zion.
Where else “har” appears- its territoryגְּבֻלgevul
territory
The land within that border.
Where else “gevul” appears- all aroundסָבִיבsaviv
around
In a circle or on every side of something: the camp, the city, the altar.
Where else “saviv” appears- shall be most holyקֹדֶשׁkodesh
holy thing
Something set apart for God: a day, an offering.
Where else “kodesh” appears
The context
11And if they are ashamed of all that they have done, the form of the house and its arrangement and its exits and its entrances and all its forms and all its statutes, and all its forms and all its instructions make known to them, and write it before their eyes, so that they may keep all its form and all its statutes, and do them.
12 · This verse (above)
13And these are the measurements of the altar in cubits (the cubit being a cubit and a handbreadth): the base, a cubit, and a cubit wide, and its border on its rim all around, one span; and this is the elevation of the altar.