Ezekiel 16:4

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

And as for thy nativity, in the day thou wast born thy navel was not cut, neither wast thou washed in water to cleanse thee; thou wast not salted at all, nor swaddled at all.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וּמוֹלְדוֹתַ֗יִךְ בְּי֨וֹם הוּלֶּ֤דֶת אֹתָךְ֙ לֹֽא־כָרַּ֣ת שָׁרֵּ֔ךְ וּבְמַ֥יִם לֹֽא־רֻחַ֖צְתְּ לְמִשְׁעִ֑י וְהָמְלֵ֙חַ֙ לֹ֣א הֻמְלַ֔חַתְּ וְהָחְתֵּ֖ל לֹ֥א חֻתָּֽלְתְּ׃

Transliteration

û-môlədôtayiḵ bə-yôm hûlledet ʾōtāḵ lōʾ-kārrat šārrēḵ û-ḇə-mayim lōʾ-ruḥaṣt lə-mišʿî wə-hāmlēaḥ lōʾ humlaḥat wə-hāḥtēl lōʾ ḥuttālt

Grammar Details

*û-môlədôtayiḵ*: conjunction + feminine plural noun + 2nd feminine singular suffix - and as for your birth
*bə-yôm*: preposition + masculine singular noun - in day of
*hûlledet*: pual infinitive construct - being born
*ʾōtāḵ*: direct object marker + 2nd feminine singular suffix - you
*lōʾ*: negative particle - not
*kārrat*: qal perfect, 3rd masculine singular - he cut
*šārrēḵ*: masculine singular noun + 2nd feminine singular suffix - your umbilical cord
*û-ḇə-mayim*: conjunction + preposition + masculine plural noun - and with water
*ruḥaṣt*: pual perfect, 2nd feminine singular - you were washed
*lə-mišʿî*: preposition + noun - for cleansing
*wə-hāmlēaḥ*: conjunction + article + infinitive absolute - and salting
*humlaḥat*: hophal perfect, 2nd feminine singular - you were salted
*wə-hāḥtēl*: conjunction + article + infinitive absolute - and swaddling
*ḥuttālt*: pual perfect, 2nd feminine singular - you were swaddled

Word Meanings

*šārrēḵ*: your umbilical cord/navel
*lə-mišʿî*: for cleansing/washing/smoothing
*humlaḥat*: you were rubbed with salt (for cleansing/strengthening)
*ḥuttālt*: you were wrapped/swaddled

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Referenced Verses

Hos 2:3 : 3 lest I strip her naked, and set her as in the day that she was born, and make her as a wilderness, and set her like a dry land, and slay her with thirst.
Luke 2:7 : 7 And she brought forth her firstborn son; and she wrapped him in swaddling clothes, and laid him in a manger, because there was no room for them in the inn.
Luke 2:12 : 12 And this [is] the sign unto you: Ye shall find a babe wrapped in swaddling clothes, and lying in a manger.
Acts 7:6-7 : 6 And God spake on this wise, that his seed should sojourn in a strange land, and that they should bring them into bondage, and treat them ill, four hundred years. 7 And the nation to which they shall be in bondage will I judge, said God: and after that shall they come forth, and serve me in this place.
Ezek 20:13 : 13 But the house of Israel rebelled against me in the wilderness: they walked not in my statutes, and they rejected mine ordinances, which if a man keep, he shall live in them; and my sabbaths they greatly profaned. Then I said I would pour out my wrath upon them in the wilderness, to consume them.
Gen 15:13 : 13 And he said unto Abram, Know of a surety that thy seed shall be sojourners in a land that is not theirs, and shall serve them; and they shall afflict them four hundred years;
Exod 1:11-14 : 11 Therefore they did set over them taskmasters to afflict them with their burdens. And they built for Pharaoh store-cities, Pithom and Raamses. 12 But the more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied and the more they spread abroad. And they were grieved because of the children of Israel. 13 And the Egyptians made the children of Israel to serve with rigor: 14 and they made their lives bitter with hard service, in mortar and in brick, and in all manner of service in the field, all their service, wherein they made them serve with rigor.
Exod 2:23-24 : 23 And it came to pass in the course of those many days, that the king of Egypt died: and the children of Israel sighed by reason of the bondage, and they cried, and their cry came up unto God by reason of the bondage. 24 And God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob.
Exod 5:16-21 : 16 There is no straw given unto thy servants, and they say to us, Make brick: and, behold, thy servants are beaten; but the fault is in thine own people. 17 But he said, Ye are idle, ye are idle: therefore ye say, Let us go and sacrifice to Jehovah. 18 Go therefore now, and work; for there shall no straw be given you, yet shall ye deliver the number of bricks. 19 And the officers of the children of Israel did see that they were in evil case, when it was said, Ye shall not diminish aught from your bricks, [your] daily tasks. 20 And they met Moses and Aaron, who stood in the way, as they came forth from Pharaoh: 21 and they said unto them, Jehovah look upon you, and judge; because ye have made our savor to be abhorred in the eyes of Pharaoh, and in the eyes of his servants, to put a sword in their hand to slay us.
Deut 5:6 : 6 I am Jehovah thy God, who brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
Deut 15:15 : 15 And thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in the land of Egypt, and Jehovah thy God redeemed thee: therefore I command thee this thing to-day.
Josh 24:2 : 2 And Joshua said unto all the people, Thus saith Jehovah, the God of Israel, Your fathers dwelt of old time beyond the River, even Terah, the father of Abraham, and the father of Nahor: and they served other gods.
Neh 9:7-9 : 7 Thou art Jehovah the God, who didst choose Abram, and broughtest him forth out of Ur of the Chaldees, and gavest him the name of Abraham, 8 and foundest his heart faithful before thee, and madest a covenant with him to give the land of the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Amorite, and the Perizzite, and the Jebusite, and the Girgashite, to give it unto his seed, and hast performed thy words; for thou art righteous. 9 And thou sawest the affliction of our fathers in Egypt, and heardest their cry by the Red Sea,
Lam 2:20 : 20 See, O Jehovah, and behold to whom thou hast done thus! Shall the women eat their fruit, the children that are dandled in the hands? Shall the priest and the prophet be slain in the sanctuary of the Lord?
Lam 2:22 : 22 Thou hast called, as in the day of a solemn assembly, my terrors on every side; And there was none that escaped or remained in the day of Jehovah's anger: Those that I have dandled and brought up hath mine enemy consumed.
Ezek 20:8 : 8 But they rebelled against me, and would not hearken unto me; they did not every man cast away the abominations of their eyes, neither did they forsake the idols of Egypt. Then I said I would pour out my wrath upon them, to accomplish my anger against them in the midst of the land of Egypt.

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