Lexicon :: Strong's H520 - 'ammâ

as did its recesses, jambs, and portico. It also had windows all around. It was 87 ¹/₂ feet long and 43 ³/₄ feet wide.

There were also four tables of cut stone for the burnt offering, each 31 ¹/₂ inches[fn] long, 31 ¹/₂ inches wide, and 21 inches high. The utensils used to slaughter the burnt offerings and other sacrifices were placed on them.

Next he measured the court. It was square, 175 feet long and 175 feet wide. The altar was in front of the temple.

Then he brought me to the portico of the temple and measured the jambs of the portico; they were 8 ³/₄ feet thick on each side. The width of the gate was 24 ¹/₂ feet,[fn] and the side walls of the gate were[fn] 5 ¹/₄ feet[fn] wide on each side.

The portico was 35 feet[fn] across and 21[fn] feet[fn] deep, and 10 steps led[fn] up to it. There were pillars by the jambs, one on each side.

The width of the entrance was 17 ¹/₂ feet,[fn] and the side walls of the entrance were 8 ³/₄ feet[fn] wide on each side. He also measured the length of the great hall, 70 feet,[fn] and the width, 35 feet.[fn]

He went inside the next room and measured the jambs at the entrance; they were 3 ¹/₂ feet[fn] wide. The entrance was 10 ¹/₂ feet wide, and the width of the entrance’s side walls on each side[fn] was 12 ¹/₄ feet.[fn]

He then measured the length of the room adjacent to the great hall, 35 feet, and the width, 35 feet. And he said to me, “This is the most holy place.”

Then he measured the wall of the temple; it was 10 ¹/₂ feet thick. The width of the side rooms all around the temple was 7 feet.[fn]

I saw that the temple had a raised platform surrounding it; this foundation for the side rooms was 10 ¹/₂ feet high.[fn]

The thickness of the outer wall of the side rooms was 8 ³/₄ feet. The free space between the side rooms of the temple

and the outer chambers was 35 feet wide all around the temple.

The side rooms opened into the free space, one entrance toward the north and another to the south. The area of free space was 8 ³/₄ feet wide all around.

Now the building that faced the temple yard toward the west was 122 ¹/₂ feet[fn] wide. The wall of the building was 8 ³/₄ feet thick on all sides, and the building’s length was 157 ¹/₂ feet.[fn]

Then the man measured the temple; it was 175 feet[fn] long. In addition, the temple yard and the building, including its walls, were 175 feet long.

The width of the front of the temple along with the temple yard to the east was 175 feet.

Next he measured the length of the building facing the temple yard to the west, with its galleries[fn] on each side; it was 175 feet.

The interior of the great hall and the porticoes of the court ​— ​

The altar was[fn] made of wood, 5 ¹/₄ feet[fn] high and 3 ¹/₂ feet long.[fn] It had corners, and its length[fn] and sides were of wood. The man told me, “This is the table that stands before the LORD.”

In front of the chambers was a walkway toward the inside, 17 ¹/₂ feet[fn] wide and 175 feet long,[fn] and their entrances were on the north.

A wall on the outside ran in front of the chambers, parallel to them, toward the outer court; it was 87 ¹/₂ feet long.

For the chambers on the outer court were 87 ¹/₂ feet long, while those facing the great hall were 175 feet long.

He measured the east side with a measuring rod;

it was 875 feet[fn] by the measuring rod.[fn]

“The distance from the gutter on the ground to the lower ledge is 3 ¹/₂ feet,[fn] and the width of the ledge is 21 inches. There are 7 feet[fn] from the small ledge to the large ledge, whose width is also 21 inches.

“The altar hearth[fn] is 7 feet high, and four horns project upward from the hearth.

“The ledge is 24 ¹/₂ feet[fn] long by 24 ¹/₂ feet wide, with four equal sides. The rim all around it is 10 ¹/₂ inches,[fn] and its gutter is 21 inches all around it. The altar’s steps face east.”