Lexical Summary attuwq: "Removed," "advanced," "aged" Original Word: אַתּוּק Strong's Exhaustive Concordance gallery Or mattiyq {at-teek'}; from nathaq in the sense of decreasing; a ledge or offset in a building -- gallery. see HEBREW nathaq Brown-Driver-Briggs [אתוק] noun masculine gallery, porch (derivatives uncertain) Ezekiel 41:15 Kt ואתוקיהא, Qr וְאַתִּיקֶיהָא Co (q. v.) וקירותיהָ. אַתִּיק noun masculine id. Ezekiel 42:3 (twice in verse); plural אַתִּיקִים Ezekiel 42:5; Ezekiel 41:15 Qr, see אתוק Kt; Ezekiel 41:16 הָאַתִּיקִים (Co strike out) Topical Lexicon Biblical Context The noun occurs five times, all within Ezekiel’s temple vision (Ezekiel 41:15, 41:16; 42:3 × 2; 42:5). These appearances come in a section where an angelic guide is “measuring the structure” (Ezekiel 40:3–4), underscoring the deliberate precision of every architectural element of the future sanctuary. Architectural Significance Most English versions render the word “galleries” or “colonnades.” Ezekiel describes multi-story walkways attached to storage or residential chambers that ring the inner court. They reach upward in three tiers: “Opposite the twenty-cubit space of the inner court and opposite the pavement of the outer court, gallery faced gallery in three levels” (Ezekiel 42:3). Because these walkways broaden outward, the lower chambers are narrower: “The outer chambers were shorter because the galleries took more space from them” (Ezekiel 42:5). The description indicates load-bearing arcades that promote circulation, provide shade, and likely shelter priestly activity. Symbolic Implications 1. Transition and Access – The galleries form intermediate zones between common space and the sanctuary, illustrating God’s provision of a graded approach to His holiness. Historical Background Comparable structures appear in Iron-Age temple complexes where exterior porticoes created sheltered, processional space. While Solomon’s Temple had side rooms (1 Kings 6:5–10), Ezekiel’s vision expands the concept, integrating the galleries into the measured perfection of a future, eschatological sanctuary. Ministry Lessons • Intentional Design: Worship environments should blend beauty and function, reflecting the order God values (1 Corinthians 14:40). Eschatological Outlook Ezekiel’s meticulously measured temple foreshadows the consummate dwelling of God with humanity (Revelation 21–22). These galleries, though never mentioned again by name, contribute to that prophetic architecture, anticipating the day when every barrier to divine fellowship is removed and “the whole earth is filled with His glory” (Numbers 14:21). Forms and Transliterations אַתִּ֖יק אַתִּ֥יק אַתִּיקִ֜ים אתיק אתיקים וְאַתִּיקֶ֛יהָא וְהָאַתִּיקִ֤ים ׀ ואתיקיהא והאתיקים ’at·tî·qîm ’at·tîq ’attîq ’attîqîm atTik attiKim veattiKeiha vehaattiKim wə’attîqehā wə·’at·tî·qe·hā wə·hā·’at·tî·qîm wəhā’attîqîmLinks Interlinear Greek • Interlinear Hebrew • Strong's Numbers • Englishman's Greek Concordance • Englishman's Hebrew Concordance • Parallel TextsEnglishman's Concordance Ezekiel 41:15 HEB: [וְאַתּוּקֵיהָא כ] (וְאַתִּיקֶ֛יהָא ק) מִפּ֥וֹ NAS: behind it, with a gallery on each KJV: which [was] behind it, and the galleries thereof on the one side and on the other side, an hundred INT: behind which gallery each side Ezekiel 41:16 Ezekiel 42:3 Ezekiel 42:3 Ezekiel 42:5 5 Occurrences |
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