Ezekiel 23:47

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

And the company shall stone them with stones, and despatch them with their swords; they shall slay their sons and their daughters, and burn up their houses with fire.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וְרָגְמ֨וּ עֲלֵיהֶ֥ן אֶ֙בֶן֙ קָהָ֔ל וּבָרֵ֥א אוֹתְהֶ֖ן בְּחַרְבוֹתָ֑ם בְּנֵיהֶ֤ם וּבְנֽוֹתֵיהֶם֙ יַהֲרֹ֔גוּ וּבָתֵּיהֶ֖ן בָּאֵ֥שׁ יִשְׂרֹֽפוּ׃

Transliteration

And-rāgəmû upon-them ʾeben qāhāl and-bārēʾ them with-ḥarbôtām bənêhem and-bənôtêhem yahărōgû and-bāttêhen with-ʾēš yiśrōpû

Grammar Details

*rāgəmû*: perfect, 3rd plural - they will stone
*ʾeben*: noun, feminine singular - stone
*qāhāl*: noun, masculine singular - assembly/congregation
*bārēʾ*: piel infinitive construct - cut down/dispatch
*ḥarbôtām*: noun, feminine plural with 3rd masculine plural suffix - their swords
*bənêhem*: noun, masculine plural with 3rd plural suffix - their sons
*bənôtêhem*: noun, feminine plural with 3rd plural suffix - their daughters
*yahărōgû*: imperfect, 3rd plural - they will kill
*bāttêhen*: noun, masculine plural with 3rd feminine plural suffix - their houses
*ʾēš*: noun, feminine singular - fire
*yiśrōpû*: imperfect, 3rd plural - they will burn

Word Meanings

*rāgəmû*: they will stone/they will pelt with stones
*bārēʾ*: cut down/dispatch/slay
*ḥarbôtām*: their swords/their weapons
*yahărōgû*: they will kill/they will slay
*yiśrōpû*: they will burn/they will set on fire

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Referenced Verses

Jer 39:8 : 8 And the Chaldeans burned the king's house, and the houses of the people, with fire, and brake down the walls of Jerusalem.
Ezek 16:40-41 : 40 They shall also bring up a company against thee, and they shall stone thee with stones, and thrust thee through with their swords. 41 And they shall burn thy houses with fire, and execute judgments upon thee in the sight of many women; and I will cause thee to cease from playing the harlot, and thou shalt also give no hire any more.
Ezek 24:21 : 21 Speak unto the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Behold, I will profane my sanctuary, the pride of your power, the desire of your eyes, and that which your soul pitieth; and your sons and your daughters whom ye have left behind shall fall by the sword.
Ezek 23:25 : 25 And I will set my jealousy against thee, and they shall deal with thee in fury; they shall take away thy nose and thine ears; and thy residue shall fall by the sword: they shall take thy sons and thy daughters; and thy residue shall be devoured by the fire.
Ezek 23:29 : 29 and they shall deal with thee in hatred, and shall take away all thy labor, and shall leave thee naked and bare; and the nakedness of thy whoredoms shall be uncovered, both thy lewdness and thy whoredoms.
Ezek 24:6 : 6 Wherefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Woe to the bloody city, to the caldron whose rust is therein, and whose rust is not gone out of it! take out of it piece after piece; No lot is fallen upon it.
Jer 52:13 : 13 and he burned the house of Jehovah, and the king's house; and all the houses of Jerusalem, even every great house, burned he with fire.
Ezek 9:6 : 6 slay utterly the old man, the young man and the virgin, and little children and women; but come not near any man upon whom is the mark: and begin at my sanctuary. Then they began at the old men that were before the house.
Deut 13:16 : 16 And you shall gather all the plunder of it into the middle of the street there, and shall burn with fire the city, and all the plunder there every whit, unto Jehovah your God: and it shall be a heap for ever; it shall not be built again.
2 Chr 36:17-19 : 17 Therefore he brought upon them the king of the Chaldeans, who slew their young men with the sword in the house of their sanctuary, and had no compassion upon young man or virgin, old man or hoary-headed: he gave them all into his hand. 18 And all the vessels of the house of God, great and small, and the treasures of the house of Jehovah, and the treasures of the king, and of his princes, all these he brought to Babylon. 19 And they burnt the house of God, and brake down the wall of Jerusalem, and burnt all the palaces thereof with fire, and destroyed all the goodly vessels thereof.
Jer 33:4-5 : 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; 5 while [men] come to fight with the Chaldeans, and to fill them with the dead bodies of men, whom I have slain in mine anger and in my wrath, and for all whose wickedness I have hid my face from this city:

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