Ezekiel 39:18

American Standard Version (1901)

Ye shall eat the flesh of the mighty, and drink the blood of the princes of the earth, of rams, of lambs, and of goats, of bullocks, all of them fatlings of Bashan.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

בְּשַׂ֤ר גִּבּוֹרִים֙ תֹּאכֵ֔לוּ וְדַם־נְשִׂיאֵ֥י הָאָ֖רֶץ תִּשְׁתּ֑וּ אֵילִ֨ים כָּרִ֤ים וְעַתּוּדִים֙ פָּרִ֔ים מְרִיאֵ֥י בָשָׁ֖ן כֻּלָּֽם

Transliteration

bəśar of gibbôrîm you shall tōʾkēlû, and dam of nəśîʾê of the ʾāreṣ you shall tištû: ʾêlîm, kārîm, and ʿattûdîm, pārîm, mərîʾê of bāšān all of them

Grammar Details

• *bəśar*: noun, masculine singular construct - flesh of
• *gibbôrîm*: adjective, masculine plural - mighty ones/warriors
• *tōʾkēlû*: qal imperfect, 2nd masculine plural - you will eat
• *dam*: noun, masculine singular construct - blood of
• *nəśîʾê*: noun, masculine plural construct - princes/chiefs of
• *ʾāreṣ*: noun, feminine singular with definite article - the land/earth
• *tištû*: qal imperfect, 2nd masculine plural - you will drink
• *ʾêlîm*: noun, masculine plural - rams
• *kārîm*: noun, masculine plural - young rams/lambs
• *ʿattûdîm*: noun, masculine plural - male goats/he-goats
• *pārîm*: noun, masculine plural - bulls/young bulls
• *mərîʾê*: noun, masculine plural construct - fatlings of
• *bāšān*: proper noun - Bashan

Word Meanings

• *gibbôrîm*: mighty ones/warriors/heroes
• *nəśîʾê*: princes/chiefs/rulers/leaders
• *mərîʾê*: fatlings/fattened animals

Referenced Verses

• Ps 22:12 : 12 Many bulls have compassed me; Strong bulls of Bashan have beset me round.
• Jer 51:40 : 40 I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams with he-goats.
• Ezek 29:5 : 5 And I will cast thee forth into the wilderness, thee and all the fish of thy rivers: thou shalt fall upon the open field; thou shalt not be brought together, nor gathered; I have given thee for food to the beasts of the earth and to the birds of the heavens.
• Jer 50:27 : 27 Slay all her bullocks; let them go down to the slaughter: woe unto them! for their day is come, the time of their visitation.
• Amos 4:1 : 1 Hear this word, ye kine of Bashan, that are in the mountain of Samaria, that oppress the poor, that crush the needy, that say unto their lords, Bring, and let us drink.
• Rev 19:17-18 : 17 And I saw an angel standing in the sun; and he cried with a loud voice, saying to all the birds that fly in mid heaven, Come [and] be gathered together unto the great supper of God; 18 that ye may eat the flesh of kings, and the flesh of captains, and the flesh of mighty men, and the flesh of horses and of them that sit thereon, and the flesh of all men, both free and bond, and small and great.
• Rev 19:21 : 21 and the rest were killed with the sword of him that sat upon the horse, [even the sword] which came forth out of his mouth: and all the birds were filled with their flesh.
• Deut 32:14 : 14 Butter of the herd, and milk of the flock, With fat of lambs, And rams of the breed of Bashan, and goats, With the finest of the wheat; And of the blood of the grape thou drankest wine.
• Ezek 34:8 : 8 As I live, saith the Lord Jehovah, surely forasmuch as my sheep became a prey, and my sheep became food to all the beasts of the field, because there was no shepherd, neither did my shepherds search for my sheep, but the shepherds fed themselves, and fed not my sheep;
• Ezek 34:17 : 17 And as for you, O my flock, thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Behold, I judge between sheep and sheep, the rams and the he-goats.
• Ps 68:30 : 30 Rebuke the wild beast of the reeds, The multitude of the bulls, with the calves of the peoples, Trampling under foot the pieces of silver: He hath scattered the peoples that delight in war.
• Isa 34:7 : 7 And the wild-oxen shall come down with them, and the bullocks with the bulls: and their land shall be drunken with blood, and their dust made fat with fatness.
• Jer 50:11 : 11 Because ye are glad, because ye rejoice, O ye that plunder my heritage, because ye are wanton as a heifer that treadeth out [the grain], and neigh as strong horses;