Ezekiel 18:14

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

Now, lo, if he beget a son, that seeth all his father's sins, which he hath done, and feareth, and doeth not such like;

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וְהִנֵּה֙ הוֹלִ֣יד בֵּ֔ן וַיַּ֕רְא אֶת־כָּל־חַטֹּ֥את אָבִ֖יו אֲשֶׁ֣ר עָשָׂ֑ה וַיִּרְאֶ֕ה וְלֹ֥א יַעֲשֶׂ֖ה כָּהֵֽן׃

Transliteration

wə- hinnēh hôlîd bēn wa- yarʾ ʾet-kol-ḥaṭṭōʾt ʾābîw ʾăšer ʿāśāh wa- yirʾeh wə- lōʾ yaʿăśeh kāhēn

Grammar Details

• *wə-*: conjunction - and
• *hinnēh*: interjection - behold
• *hôlîd*: Hiphil perfect 3rd masculine singular - he has begotten
• *bēn*: masculine singular noun - son
• *wa-*: conjunction - and
• *yarʾ*: Qal imperfect 3rd masculine singular with waw consecutive - and he saw
• *ʾet*: direct object marker
• *kol*: construct state, masculine singular - all of
• *ḥaṭṭōʾt*: feminine plural noun, construct state - sins of
• *ʾābîw*: masculine singular noun with 3rd masculine singular suffix - his father
• *ʾăšer*: relative pronoun - which, that
• *ʿāśāh*: Qal perfect 3rd masculine singular - he did
• *yirʾeh*: Qal imperfect 3rd masculine singular with waw consecutive - and he sees/fears
• *lōʾ*: negative particle - not
• *yaʿăśeh*: Qal imperfect 3rd masculine singular - he will do
• *kāhēn*: preposition with 3rd feminine plural suffix - like them

Word Meanings

• *yarʾ*: saw/observed/noticed
• *yirʾeh*: sees/fears/considers (possibly repetition for emphasis, or different nuance)
• *kāhēn*: like them/similarly/in the same way

Referenced Verses

• 2 Chr 34:21 : 21 Go ye, inquire of Jehovah for me, and for them that are left in Israel and in Judah, concerning the words of the book that is found; for great is the wrath of Jehovah that is poured out upon us, because our fathers have not kept the word of Jehovah, to do according unto all that is written in this book.
• Prov 23:24 : 24 The father of the righteous will greatly rejoice; And he that begetteth a wise child will have joy of him.
• Isa 44:19 : 19 And none calleth to mind, neither is there knowledge nor understanding to say, I have burned part of it in the fire; yea, also I have baked bread upon the coals thereof; I have roasted flesh and eaten it: and shall I make the residue thereof an abomination? shall I fall down to the stock of a tree?
• Jer 8:6 : 6 I hearkened and heard, but they spake not aright: no man repenteth him of his wickedness, saying, What have I done? every one turneth to his course, as a horse that rusheth headlong in the battle.
• Jer 9:14 : 14 but have walked after the stubbornness of their own heart, and after the Baalim, which their fathers taught them;
• Jer 44:17 : 17 But we will certainly perform every word that is gone forth out of our mouth, to burn incense unto the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink-offerings unto her, as we have done, we and our fathers, our kings and our princes, in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem; for then had we plenty of victuals, and were well, and saw no evil.
• Ezek 18:10 : 10 If he beget a son that is a robber, a shedder of blood, and that doeth any one of these things,
• Ezek 18:28 : 28 Because he considereth, and turneth away from all his transgressions that he hath committed, he shall surely live, he shall not die.
• Ezek 20:18 : 18 And I said unto their children in the wilderness, Walk ye not in the statutes of your fathers, neither observe their ordinances, nor defile yourselves with their idols.
• Hos 7:2 : 2 And they consider not in their hearts that I remember all their wickedness: now have their own doings beset them about; they are before my face.
• Hag 1:5 : 5 Now therefore thus saith Jehovah of hosts: Consider your ways.
• Hag 1:7 : 7 Thus saith Jehovah of hosts: Consider your ways.
• Hag 2:18 : 18 Consider, I pray you, from this day and backward, from the four and twentieth day of the ninth [month], since the day that the foundation of Jehovah's temple was laid, consider it.
• Matt 23:32 : 32 Fill ye up then the measure of your fathers.
• Luke 15:17-19 : 17 But when he came to himself he said, How many hired servants of my father's have bread enough and to spare, and I perish here with hunger! 18 I will arise and go to my father, and will say unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and in thy sight: 19 I am no more worthy to be called your son: make me as one of thy hired servants.
• 1 Pet 1:18 : 18 knowing that ye were redeemed, not with corruptible things, with silver or gold, from your vain manner of life handed down from your fathers;
• Ps 119:59-60 : 59 I thought on my ways, And turned my feet unto thy testimonies. 60 I made haste, and delayed not, To observe thy commandments.
• Prov 17:21 : 21 He that begetteth a fool [doeth it] to his sorrow; And the father of a fool hath no joy.
• 2 Chr 29:3-9 : 3 He in the first year of his reign, in the first month, opened the doors of the house of Jehovah, and repaired them. 4 And he brought in the priests and the Levites, and gathered them together into the broad place on the east, 5 and said unto them, Hear me, ye Levites; now sanctify yourselves, and sanctify the house of Jehovah, the God of your fathers, and carry forth the filthiness out of the holy place. 6 For our fathers have trespassed, and done that which was evil in the sight of Jehovah our God, and have forsaken him, and have turned away their faces from the habitation of Jehovah, and turned their backs. 7 Also they have shut up the doors of the porch, and put out the lamps, and have not burned incense nor offered burnt-offerings in the holy place unto the God of Israel. 8 Wherefore the wrath of Jehovah was upon Judah and Jerusalem, and he hath delivered them to be tossed to and fro, to be an astonishment, and a hissing, as ye see with your eyes. 9 For, lo, our fathers have fallen by the sword, and our sons and our daughters and our wives are in captivity for this. 10 Now it is in my heart to make a covenant with Jehovah, the God of Israel, that his fierce anger may turn away from us. 11 My sons, be not now negligent; for Jehovah hath chosen you to stand before him, to minister unto him, and that ye should be his ministers, and burn incense.