* there was.  Heb. it was, made broader, and went round.
  1Ki 6:8  Mt 13:32  Heb 6:1 
 * an enlarging.
   In the same proportion in which the thickness of the wall
   decreased, the chambers increased, so that the middle story
   was one cubit larger, and the upper story two cubits larger,
   than the lower rooms; and a winding staircase, which widened
   in the same manner as the rooms, ascended from the bottom to
   the top.