Ezekiel 14:15

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

If I cause evil beasts to pass through the land, and they ravage it, and it be made desolate, so that no man may pass through because of the beasts;

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

לֽוּ־חַיָּ֥ה רָעָ֛ה אַעֲבִ֥יר בָּאָ֖רֶץ וְשִׁכְּלָ֑תָּה וְהָיְתָ֤ה שְׁמָמָה֙ מִבְּלִ֣י עוֹבֵ֔ר מִפְּנֵ֖י הַחַיָּֽה׃

Transliteration

If-lû ḥayyāh rāʿāh ʾaʿăḇîr in-the-ʾāreṣ and-wə-šikkəlāṯāh and-wə-hāyəṯāh šəmāmāh without ʿôḇēr because-of the-ha-ḥayyāh.

Grammar Details

*lû*: conditional particle - if
*ḥayyāh*: feminine singular - animal/beast
*rāʿāh*: feminine singular adjective - evil/harmful
*ʾaʿăḇîr*: hiphil imperfect, 1st common singular - I cause to pass through
*ʾāreṣ*: feminine singular with definite article - the land
*wə-šikkəlāṯāh*: waw consecutive + piel perfect, 3rd feminine singular + 3rd feminine singular suffix - and it bereaves it
*wə-hāyəṯāh*: waw consecutive + qal perfect, 3rd feminine singular - and it becomes
*šəmāmāh*: feminine singular noun - desolation
*ʿôḇēr*: qal participle, masculine singular - one passing through
*ha-ḥayyāh*: definite article + feminine singular - the beast

Word Meanings

*ḥayyāh* *rāʿāh*: wild beast/harmful animal/predator
*ʾaʿăḇîr*: cause to pass through/send through/allow to pass
*šikkəlāṯāh*: bereaves it/makes it childless/ravages it
*šəmāmāh*: desolation/waste/ruin
*ʿôḇēr*: one passing through/traveler/passerby

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Referenced Verses

Ezek 5:17 : 17 and I will send upon you famine and evil beasts, and they shall bereave thee; and pestilence and blood shall pass through thee; and I will bring the sword upon thee: I, Jehovah, have spoken it.
Lev 26:22 : 22 And I will send the beast of the field among you, which shall rob you of your children, and destroy your cattle, and make you few in number; and your ways shall become desolate.
1 Kgs 20:36 : 36 Then said he unto him, Because thou hast not obeyed the voice of Jehovah, behold, as soon as thou art departed from me, a lion shall slay thee. And as soon as he was departed from him, a lion found him, and slew him.
2 Kgs 17:25 : 25 And so it was, at the beginning of their dwelling there, that they feared not Jehovah: therefore Jehovah sent lions among them, which killed some of them.
Jer 15:3 : 3 And I will appoint over them four kinds, saith Jehovah: the sword to slay, and the dogs to tear, and the birds of the heavens, and the beasts of the earth, to devour and to destroy.

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