Ezekiel 21:22

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וְגַם־אֲנִ֗י אַכֶּ֤ה כַפִּי֙ אֶל־כַּפִּ֔י וַהֲנִחֹתִ֖י חֲמָתִ֑י אֲנִ֥י יְהוָ֖ה דִּבַּֽרְתִּי

Transliteration

wə-gam-ʾănî ʾakkê kappî ʾel-kappî wa-hăniḥōtî ḥămātî ʾănî YHWH dibbartî

Grammar Details

*wə*-*gam*: conjunction + particle - and also
*ʾănî*: pronoun, 1st person singular - I
*ʾakkê*: hiphil imperfect, 1st person singular - I will strike
*kappî*: noun, feminine singular construct + 1st person singular suffix - my palm/hand
*ʾel*-*kappî*: preposition + noun, feminine singular construct + 1st person singular suffix - against my palm/hand
*wa*-*hăniḥōtî*: conjunction + hiphil perfect, 1st person singular - and I will cause to rest
*ḥămātî*: noun, feminine singular construct + 1st person singular suffix - my wrath
*YHWH*: proper noun - LORD
*dibbartî*: piel perfect, 1st person singular - I have spoken

Word Meanings

*ʾakkê*: strike/smite/clap
*kappî*: my palm/my hand
*hăniḥōtî*: cause to rest/satisfy/bring down
*ḥămātî*: my wrath/my anger/my heat
*dibbartî*: spoken/declared/promised

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Referenced Verses

Ezek 4:2 : 2 and lay siege against it, and build forts against it, and cast up a mound against it; set camps also against it, and plant battering rams against it round about.
Ezek 26:9 : 9 And he shall set his battering engines against thy walls, and with his axes he shall break down thy towers.
Exod 32:17-18 : 17 And when Joshua heard the noise of the people as they shouted, he said unto Moses, There is a noise of war in the camp. 18 And he said, It is not the voice of them that shout for mastery, neither is it the voice of them that cry for being overcome; but the noise of them that sing do I hear.
Josh 6:10 : 10 And Joshua commanded the people, saying, Ye shall not shout, nor let your voice be heard, neither shall any word proceed out of your mouth, until the day I bid you shout; then shall ye shout.
Josh 6:20 : 20 So the people shouted, and [the priests] blew the trumpets; and it came to pass, when the people heard the sound of the trumpet, that the people shouted with a great shout, and the wall fell down flat, so that the people went up into the city, every man straight before him, and they took the city.
1 Sam 17:20 : 20 And David rose up early in the morning, and left the sheep with a keeper, and took, and went, as Jesse had commanded him; and he came to the place of the wagons, as the host which was going forth to the fight shouted for the battle.
Job 39:25 : 25 As oft as the trumpet [soundeth] he saith, Aha! {H1889} And he smelleth the battle afar off, The thunder of the captains, and the shouting.
Jer 32:24 : 24 Behold, the mounds, they are come unto the city to take it; and the city is given into the hand of the Chaldeans that fight against it, because of the sword, and of the famine, and of the pestilence; and what thou hast spoken is come to pass; and, behold, thou seest it.
Jer 33:4 : 4 For thus saith Jehovah, the God of Israel, concerning the houses of this city, and concerning the houses of the kings of Judah, which are broken down [to make a defence] against the mounds and against the sword;
Jer 51:14 : 14 Jehovah of hosts hath sworn by himself, [saying], Surely I will fill thee with men, as with the canker-worm; and they shall lift up a shout against thee.
Jer 52:4 : 4 And it came to pass in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, in the tenth day of the month, that Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon came, he and all his army, against Jerusalem, and encamped against it; and they built forts against it round about.

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