This rare term appears in Ezekiel 40:15 as a ketiv-qere variant designating the entrance or doorway of the temple gate structure. The ketiv reads yaiton while the qere corrects to ithon, both apparently referring to the same architectural feature: the entrance opening. Scholars debate whether this is an Aramaic loan-word or a rare Hebrew variant. The context clearly indicates an entrance or doorway in Ezekiel's detailed temple measurements. Textual scholars have proposed various emendations, but the basic sense of an entrance passage remains stable across proposals.