Ezekiel 21:15

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

I have set the threatening sword against all their gates, that their heart may melt, and their stumblings be multiplied: ah! it is made as lightning, it is pointed for slaughter.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

לְמַ֨עַן טְבֹ֤חַ טֶ֙בַח֙ הוּחַ֔דָּה לְמַעַן־הֱיֵה־לָ֥הּ בָּ֖רָק מֹרָ֑טָּה א֣וֹ נָשִׂ֔ישׂ שֵׁ֥בֶט בְּנִ֖י מֹאֶ֥סֶת כָּל־עֵֽץ׃

Transliteration

For-maʿan ṭəḇōaḥ ṭeḇaḥ hûḥaddāh for-maʿan-be-to-it bārāq mōrāṭṭāh or nāśîś šēḇeṭ bənî mōʾeseṯ all-ʿēṣ.

Grammar Details

*maʿan*: conjunction - purpose/in order that
*ṭəḇōaḥ*: qal infinitive construct - to slaughter
*ṭeḇaḥ*: masculine singular - slaughter
*hûḥaddāh*: hophal perfect 3rd feminine singular - it is sharpened
*bārāq*: masculine singular - lightning/flash
*mōrāṭṭāh*: pual perfect 3rd feminine singular - it is polished
*nāśîś*: qal imperfect 1st common plural - we rejoice
*šēḇeṭ*: masculine singular construct - rod/staff of
*bənî*: masculine singular with 1st person singular suffix - my son
*mōʾeseṯ*: qal participle feminine singular - despising/rejecting
*ʿēṣ*: masculine singular - tree/wood

Word Meanings

*maʿan*: purpose/in order that/for the sake of
*ṭəḇōaḥ*: slaughter/butcher/kill
*ṭeḇaḥ*: slaughter/massacre/slaying
*bārāq*: lightning/flash/glitter
*nāśîś*: rejoice/be glad/exult
*šēḇeṭ*: rod/staff/scepter/tribe
*mōʾeseṯ*: despising/rejecting/scorning
*ʿēṣ*: tree/wood/timber

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Referenced Verses

Jer 17:27 : 27 But if ye will not hearken unto me to hallow the sabbath day, and not to bear a burden and enter in at the gates of Jerusalem on the sabbath day; then will I kindle a fire in the gates thereof, and it shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem, and it shall not be quenched.
Ezek 21:7 : 7 And it shall be, when they say unto thee, Wherefore sighest thou? that thou shalt say, Because of the tidings, for it cometh; and every heart shall melt, and all hands shall be feeble, and every spirit shall faint, and all knees shall be weak as water: behold, it cometh, and it shall be done, saith the Lord Jehovah.
Ezek 21:10 : 10 it is sharpened that it may make a slaughter; it is furbished that it may be as lightning: shall we then make mirth? the rod of my son, it contemneth every tree.
Ezek 21:22 : 22 In his right hand was the divination [for] Jerusalem, to set battering rams, to open the mouth in the slaughter, to lift up the voice with shouting, to set battering rams against the gates, to cast up mounds, to build forts.
Ezek 21:28 : 28 And thou, son of man, prophesy, and say, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah concerning the children of Ammon, and concerning their reproach; and say thou, A sword, a sword is drawn, for the slaughter it is furbished, to cause it to devour, that it may be as lightning;
Ezek 15:7 : 7 And I will set my face against them; they shall go forth from the fire, but the fire shall devour them; and ye shall know that I am Jehovah, when I set my face against them.
Ezek 20:47 : 47 and say to the forest of the South, Hear the word of Jehovah: Thus saith the Lord Jehovah, Behold, I will kindle a fire in thee, and it shall devour every green tree in thee, and every dry tree: the flaming flame shall not be quenched, and all faces from the south to the north shall be burnt thereby.
2 Sam 17:10 : 10 And even he that is valiant, whose heart is as the heart of a lion, will utterly melt; for all Israel knoweth that thy father is a mighty man, and they that are with him are valiant men.
Ps 22:14 : 14 I am poured out like water, And all my bones are out of joint: My heart is like wax; It is melted within me.

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