'Width' in the Bible
Then he measured the width of the gate’s entrance; it was 17½ feet, while the width of the gateway was 22¾ feet.
He measured the gate of the outer court facing north, both its length and width.
Then he brought me to the portico of the temple and measured the pilasters of the portico; they were 8¾ feet thick on each side. The width of the gateway was 24½ feet, and the side walls of the gate were 5¼ feet wide on each side.
Next he brought me into the great hall and measured the pilasters; on each side the width of the pilaster was 10½ feet.
The width of the entrance was 17½ feet, and the side walls of the entrance were 8¾ feet wide on each side. He also measured the length of the great hall, 70 feet, and the width, 35 feet.
He went inside the next room and measured the pilasters at the entrance; they were 3½ feet wide. The entrance was 10½ feet wide, and the width of the entrance’s side walls on each side was 12¼ feet.
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 10½ feet thick. The width of the side rooms all around the temple was seven feet.
The width of the front of the temple along with the temple yard to the east was 175 feet.
Along the length of the chambers, which was 175 feet, there was an entrance on the north; the width was 87½ feet.
with a passageway in front of them, just like the chambers that faced north. Their length and width, as well as all their exits, measurements, and entrances, were identical.
The distance from the gutter on the ground to the lower ledge is 3½ feet, and the width of the ledge is 21 inches. There are seven feet from the small ledge to the large ledge, whose width is also 21 inches.
“Next to the territory of the priests, the Levites will have an area 8⅓ miles long and 3⅓ miles wide. The total length will be 8⅓ miles and the width 3⅓ miles.