courts joined. courts covered over, or closed courts, cloisters.
corners. Hebrew. m hukzaoth, This hybrid word has the extraordinary points (App-31) or dots on the top, denoting that it does not properly belong to the primitive text. It is omitted in Septuagint, Syriac, and Vulgate. The clause should therefore read: "these four were of the some measure" (see Ginsburg's Introduction, pp. 382-3).