Ezekiel 18:31

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

Cast away from you all your transgressions, wherein ye have transgressed; and make you a new heart and a new spirit: for why will ye die, O house of Israel?

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

הַשְׁלִ֣יכוּ מֵעֲלֵיכֶ֗ם אֶת־כָּל־פִשְׁעֵיכֶם֙ אֲשֶׁ֣ר פְּשַׁעְתֶּ֣ם בָּ֔ם וַעֲשׂ֥וּ לָכֶ֛ם לֵ֥ב חָדָ֖שׁ וְר֣וּחַ חֲדָשָׁ֑ה וְלָ֥מָּה תָמֻ֖תוּ בֵּ֥ית יִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃

Transliteration

hašlîkû mē- ʿălêkem ʾet-kol-pišʿêkem ʾăšer pəšaʿtem bām wa- ʿăśû lākem lēb ḥādāš wə- rûaḥ ḥădāšāh wə- lāmmāh tāmûtû bêt yiśrāʾēl

Grammar Details

• *hašlîkû*: Hiphil imperative masculine plural - cast away
• *mē-*: preposition - from
• *ʿălêkem*: preposition with 2nd masculine plural suffix - upon you
• *ʾet*: direct object marker
• *kol*: construct state, masculine singular - all of
• *pišʿêkem*: masculine plural noun with 2nd masculine plural suffix - your transgressions
• *ʾăšer*: relative pronoun - which, that
• *pəšaʿtem*: Qal perfect 2nd masculine plural - you have transgressed
• *bām*: preposition with 3rd masculine plural suffix - with them
• *wa-*: conjunction - and
• *ʿăśû*: Qal imperative masculine plural - make
• *lākem*: preposition with 2nd masculine plural suffix - for yourselves
• *lēb*: masculine singular noun - heart
• *ḥādāš*: adjective masculine singular - new
• *wə-*: conjunction - and
• *rûaḥ*: feminine singular noun - spirit
• *ḥădāšāh*: adjective feminine singular - new
• *lāmmāh*: interrogative - why
• *tāmûtû*: Qal imperfect 2nd masculine plural - you will die
• *bêt*: masculine singular construct - house of
• *yiśrāʾēl*: proper noun - Israel

Word Meanings

• *hašlîkû*: cast away/throw off/discard
• *pišʿêkem*: your transgressions/your rebellions/your crimes
• *pəšaʿtem*: you have transgressed/you have rebelled/you have offended
• *lēb* *ḥādāš*: new heart/renewed mind/transformed inner being
• *rûaḥ* *ḥădāšāh*: new spirit/renewed attitude/transformed disposition

Referenced Verses

• Ps 51:10 : 10 Create in me a clean heart, O God; And renew a right spirit within me.
• Ezek 11:19 : 19 And I will give them one heart, and I will put a new spirit within you; and I will take the stony heart out of their flesh, and will give them a heart of flesh;
• Isa 1:16-17 : 16 Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil; 17 learn to do well; seek justice, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.
• Ezek 33:11 : 11 Say unto them, As I live, saith the Lord Jehovah, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked; but that the wicked turn from his way and live: turn ye, turn ye from your evil ways; for why will ye die, O house of Israel?
• Ezek 36:26 : 26 A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you; and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you a heart of flesh.
• Rom 8:13 : 13 for if ye live after the flesh, ye must die; but if by the Spirit ye put to death the deeds of the body, ye shall live.
• Ezek 20:7 : 7 And I said unto them, Cast ye away every man the abominations of his eyes, and defile not yourselves with the idols of Egypt; I am Jehovah your God.
• Deut 30:19 : 19 I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day, that I have set before thee life and death, the blessing and the curse: therefore choose life, that thou mayest live, thou and thy seed;
• Isa 55:7 : 7 let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts; and let him return unto Jehovah, and he will have mercy upon him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.
• Jer 21:8 : 8 And unto this people thou shalt say, Thus saith Jehovah: Behold, I set before you the way of life and the way of death.
• Jer 27:15 : 15 For I have not sent them, saith Jehovah, but they prophesy falsely in my name; that I may drive you out, and that ye may perish, ye, and the prophets that prophesy unto you.
• Jer 32:39 : 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:
• Ps 34:14 : 14 Depart from evil, and do good; Seek peace, and pursue it.
• Prov 8:36 : 36 But he that sinneth against me wrongeth his own soul: All they that hate me love death.
• Isa 30:22 : 22 And ye shall defile the overlaying of thy graven images of silver, and the plating of thy molten images of gold: thou shalt cast them away as an unclean thing; thou shalt say unto it, Get thee hence.
• Matt 12:33 : 33 Either make the tree good, and its fruit good; or make the tree corrupt, and its fruit corrupt: for the tree is known by its fruit.
• Matt 23:26 : 26 Thou blind Pharisee, cleanse first the inside of the cup and of the platter, that the outside thereof may become clean also.
• Acts 3:19 : 19 Repent ye therefore, and turn again, that your sins may be blotted out, that so there may come seasons of refreshing from the presence of the Lord;
• Acts 13:46 : 46 And Paul and Barnabas spake out boldly, and said, It was necessary that the word of God should first be spoken to you. {G1161} Seeing ye thrust it from you, and judge yourselves unworthy {G3756} of eternal life, lo, we turn to the Gentiles.
• Rom 12:2 : 2 And be not fashioned according to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is the good and acceptable and perfect will of God.
• Eph 4:22-32 : 22 that ye put away, as concerning your former manner of life, the old man, that waxeth corrupt after the lusts of deceit; 23 and that ye be renewed in the spirit of your mind, 24 and put on the new man, that after God hath been created in righteousness and holiness of truth. 25 Wherefore, putting away falsehood, speak ye truth each one with his neighbor: for we are members one of another. 26 Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath: 27 neither give place to the devil. 28 Let him that stole steal no more: but rather let him labor, working with his hands the thing that is good, that he may have whereof to give to him that hath need. 29 Let {G3956} no corrupt speech proceed out of your mouth, but such as is good for edifying as the need may be, that it may give grace to them that hear. 30 And grieve not the Holy Spirit of God, in whom ye were sealed unto the day of redemption. 31 Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamor, and railing, be put away from you, with all malice: 32 and be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving each other, even as God also in Christ forgave you.
• Col 3:5-9 : 5 Put to death therefore your members which are upon the earth: fornication, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry; 6 for which things' sake cometh the wrath of God upon the sons of disobedience: 7 wherein {G1722} ye also once walked, when ye lived in these things; 8 but now do ye also put them all away: anger, wrath, malice, railing, shameful speaking out of your mouth: 9 lie not one to another; seeing that ye have put off the old man with his doings,
• Jas 1:21 : 21 Wherefore putting away all filthiness and overflowing of wickedness, receive with meekness the implanted word, which is able to save your souls.
• Jas 4:8 : 8 Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye doubleminded.
• 1 Pet 1:14 : 14 as children of obedience, not fashioning yourselves according to your former lusts in [the time of] your ignorance:
• 1 Pet 1:22 : 22 Seeing ye have purified your souls in your obedience to the truth unto unfeigned love of the brethren, love one another from the {G2513} heart fervently:
• 1 Pet 2:1 : 1 Putting away therefore all wickedness, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings,
• 1 Pet 4:2-4 : 2 that ye no longer should live the rest of your time in the flesh to the lusts of men, but to the will of God. 3 For the time past {G979} may suffice {G2254} to have wrought the desire of the Gentiles, and to have walked in lasciviousness, lusts, winebibbings, revellings, carousings, and abominable idolatries: 4 wherein {G3739} they think it strange that ye run not with [them] into the same excess of riot, speaking evil of [you]:
• Deut 30:15 : 15 See, I have set before thee this day life and good, and death and evil;