Ezekiel 37:23

American Standard Version (1901)

neither shall they defile themselves any more with their idols, nor with their detestable things, nor with any of their transgressions; but I will save them out of all their dwelling-places, wherein they have sinned, and will cleanse them: so shall they be my people, and I will be their God.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וְלֹ֧א יִֽטַמְּא֣וּ ע֗וֹד בְּגִלּֽוּלֵיהֶם֙ וּבְשִׁקּ֣וּצֵיהֶ֔ם וּבְכֹ֖ל פִּשְׁעֵיהֶ֑ם וְהוֹשַׁעְתִּ֣י אֹתָ֗ם מִכֹּ֤ל מוֹשְׁבֹֽתֵיהֶם֙ אֲשֶׁ֣ר חָטְא֣וּ בָהֶ֔ם וְטִהַרְתִּ֤י אוֹתָם֙ וְהָיוּ־לִ֣י לְעָ֔ם וַאֲנִ֕י אֶהְיֶ֥ה לָהֶ֖ם לֵאלֹהִֽים׃

Transliteration

And not wᵊlōʾ yiṭammᵊʾû again ʿôd with bᵊgillûlêhem and with ûbᵊšiqqûṣêhem and with all ûbᵊkōl pišʿêhem and wᵊhôšaʿtî them ʾōtām from all mikkōl môšᵊbōtêhem which ʾăšer ḥāṭᵊʾû in them bāhem and wᵊṭihartî them ʾôtām and they will be wᵊhāyû-lî for me for a people lᵊʿām and I waʾănî I will be ʾehyeh to them lāhem for God lēʾlōhîm

Grammar Details

• *wᵊlōʾ*: conjunction with particle of negation - and not
• *yiṭammᵊʾû*: verb, hitpael imperfect, 3rd person masculine plural - they will defile themselves
• *ʿôd*: adverb - again/still/yet
• *bᵊgillûlêhem*: preposition with noun, masculine plural with 3rd person masculine plural suffix - with their idols
• *ûbᵊšiqqûṣêhem*: conjunction with preposition and noun, masculine plural with 3rd person masculine plural suffix - and with their detestable things
• *ûbᵊkōl*: conjunction with preposition and noun, masculine singular construct - and with all of
• *pišʿêhem*: noun, masculine plural with 3rd person masculine plural suffix - their transgressions
• *wᵊhôšaʿtî*: verb, hiphil perfect with waw-consecutive, 1st person singular - and I will save
• *ʾōtām*: direct object marker with 3rd person masculine plural suffix - them
• *mikkōl*: preposition with noun, masculine singular construct - from all of
• *môšᵊbōtêhem*: noun, masculine plural with 3rd person masculine plural suffix - their dwelling places
• *ʾăšer*: relative pronoun - which
• *ḥāṭᵊʾû*: verb, qal perfect, 3rd person masculine plural - they sinned
• *bāhem*: preposition with 3rd person masculine plural suffix - in them
• *wᵊṭihartî*: verb, piel perfect with waw-consecutive, 1st person singular - and I will cleanse
• *ʾôtām*: direct object marker with 3rd person masculine plural suffix - them
• *wᵊhāyû-lî*: verb, qal perfect with waw-consecutive, 3rd person masculine plural with preposition and 1st person singular suffix - and they will be to me
• *lᵊʿām*: preposition with noun, masculine singular - for a people
• *waʾănî*: conjunction with pronoun, 1st person singular - and I
• *ʾehyeh*: verb, qal imperfect, 1st person singular - I will be
• *lāhem*: preposition with 3rd person masculine plural suffix - to them
• *lēʾlōhîm*: preposition with noun, masculine plural - for God

Word Meanings

• *gillûlîm*: idols/idol blocks/dung pellets
• *šiqqûṣîm*: detestable things/abominations
• *pešaʿ*: transgression/rebellion/sin
• *môšāb*: dwelling place/habitation/seat

Referenced Verses

• Ezek 36:28-29 : 28 And ye shall dwell in the land that I gave to your fathers; and ye shall be my people, and I will be your God. 29 And I will save you from all your uncleannesses: and I will call for the grain, and will multiply it, and lay no famine upon you.
• Ezek 36:31 : 31 Then shall ye remember your evil ways, and your doings that were not good; and ye shall loathe yourselves in your own sight for your iniquities and for your abominations.
• Ezek 37:27 : 27 My tabernacle also shall be with them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
• Ezek 39:22 : 22 So the house of Israel shall know that I am Jehovah their God, from that day and forward.
• Ezek 43:7-8 : 7 And he said unto me, Son of man, [this is] the place of my throne, and the place of the soles of my feet, where I will dwell in the midst of the children of Israel for ever. And the house of Israel shall no more defile my holy name, neither they, nor their kings, by their whoredom, and by the dead bodies of their kings [in] their high places; 8 in their setting of their threshold by my threshold, and their door-post beside my door-post, and there was [but] the wall between me and them; and they have defiled my holy name by their abominations which they have committed: wherefore I have consumed them in mine anger.
• Hos 1:10 : 10 Yet the number of the children of Israel shall be as the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured nor numbered; and it shall come to pass that, in the place where it was said unto them, Ye are not my people, it shall be said unto them, [Ye are] the sons of the living God.
• Hos 14:8 : 8 Ephraim [shall say], What have I to do any more with idols? I have answered, and will regard him: I am like a green fir-tree; from me is thy fruit found.
• Mic 7:14 : 14 Feed thy people with thy rod, the flock of thy heritage, which dwell solitarily, in the forest in the midst of Carmel: let them feed in Bashan and Gilead, as in the days of old.
• Zech 13:1-2 : 1 In that day there shall be a fountain opened to the house of David and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, for sin and for uncleanness. 2 And it shall come to pass in that day, saith Jehovah of hosts, that I will cut off the names of the idols out of the land, and they shall no more be remembered; and also I will cause the prophets and the unclean spirit to pass out of the land.
• Zech 13:9 : 9 And I will bring the third part into the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will try them as gold is tried. They shall call on my name, and I will hear them: I will say, It is my people; and they shall say, Jehovah is my God.
• Zech 14:21 : 21 Yea, every pot in Jerusalem and in Judah shall be holy unto Jehovah of hosts; and all they that sacrifice shall come and take of them, and boil therein: and in that day there shall be no more a Canaanite in the house of Jehovah of hosts.
• Eph 5:26-27 : 26 that he might sanctify it, having cleansed it by the washing of water with the word, 27 that he might present the church to himself a glorious [church], not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.
• Heb 9:13-14 : 13 For if the blood of goats and bulls, and the ashes of a heifer sprinkling them that have been defiled, sanctify unto the cleanness of the flesh: 14 how much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without blemish unto God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?
• 1 John 1:7 : 7 but if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanseth us from all sin.
• 1 John 1:9 : 9 If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
• Rev 21:3-4 : 3 And I heard a great voice out of the throne saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he shall dwell with them, and they shall be his peoples, and God himself shall be with them, [ [and be] their God: 4 and he shall wipe away every tear from their eyes; and death shall be no more; neither shall there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain, any more: the first things are passed away.
• Rev 21:7 : 7 He that overcometh shall inherit these things; and I will be his God, and he shall be my son.
• Gen 17:7-8 : 7 And I will establish my covenant between me and thee and thy seed after thee throughout their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a God unto thee and to thy seed after thee. 8 And I will give unto thee, and to thy seed after thee, the land of thy sojournings, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession; and I will be their God.
• Lev 20:7-8 : 7 Sanctify yourselves therefore, and be ye holy; for I am Jehovah your God. 8 And ye shall keep my statutes, and do them: I am Jehovah who sanctifieth you.
• Ps 68:20 : 20 God is unto us a God of deliverances; And unto Jehovah the Lord belongeth escape from death.
• Ps 68:35 : 35 O God, [thou art] terrible out of thy holy places: The God of Israel, he giveth strength and power unto [his] people. Blessed be God.
• Isa 2:18 : 18 And the idols shall utterly pass away.
• Jer 31:1 : 1 At that time, saith Jehovah, will I be the God of all the families of Israel, and they shall be my people.
• Jer 31:33 : 33 But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith Jehovah: I will put my law in their inward parts, and in their heart will I write it; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people:
• Jer 32:38-39 : 38 and they shall be my people, and I will be their God: 39 and I will give them one heart and one way, that they may fear me for ever, for the good of them, and of their children after them:
• Ezek 20:43 : 43 And there shall ye remember your ways, and all your doings, wherein ye have polluted yourselves; and ye shall loathe yourselves in your own sight for all your evils that ye have committed.
• Ezek 36:24-25 : 24 For I will take you from among the nations, and gather you out of all the countries, and will bring you into your own land. 25 And I will sprinkle clean water upon you, and ye shall be clean: from all your filthiness, and from all your idols, will I cleanse you.