Ezekiel 28:21

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

Son of man, set your face toward Sidon, and prophesy against it,

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

בֶּן־אָדָ֕ם שִׂ֥ים פָּנֶ֖יךָ אֶל־צִיד֑וֹן וְהִנָּבֵ֖א עָלֶֽיהָ׃

Transliteration

ben-ʾāḏām śîm pāneḵā ʾel-ṣîḏôn wə-hinnāḇēʾ ʿāleyhā

Grammar Details

• *ben*-*ʾāḏām*: construct phrase, vocative - son of man
• *śîm*: qal imperative masculine singular - set/place
• *pāneḵā*: noun masculine plural + 2nd masculine singular suffix - your face
• *ʾel*-*ṣîḏôn*: preposition + proper noun - toward Sidon
• *wə-hinnāḇēʾ*: conjunction + niphal imperative masculine singular - and prophesy
• *ʿāleyhā*: preposition + 3rd feminine singular suffix - against it/her

Word Meanings

• *śîm* *pāneḵā*: set your face/turn your attention
• *hinnāḇēʾ*: prophesy/speak as a prophet

Referenced Verses

• Ezek 6:2 : 2 Son of man, set thy face toward the mountains of Israel, and prophesy unto them,
• Gen 10:15 : 15 And Canaan begat Sidon his first-born, and Heth,
• Jer 25:22 : 22 and all the kings of Tyre, and all the kings of Sidon, and the kings of the isle which is beyond the sea;
• Ezek 25:2 : 2 Son of man, set thy face toward the children of Ammon, and prophesy against them:
• Ezek 27:8 : 8 The inhabitants of Sidon and Arvad were thy rowers: thy wise men, O Tyre, were in thee, they were thy pilots.
• Ezek 29:2 : 2 Son of man, set thy face against Pharaoh king of Egypt, and prophesy against him, and against all Egypt;
• Ezek 32:30 : 30 There are the princes of the north, all of them, and all the Sidonians, who are gone down with the slain; in the terror which they caused by their might they are put to shame; and they lie uncircumcised with them that are slain by the sword, and bear their shame with them that go down to the pit.
• Joel 3:4-8 : 4 Yea, and what are ye to me, O Tyre, and Sidon, and all the regions of Philistia? will ye render me a recompense? and if ye recompense me, swiftly and speedily will I return your recompense upon your own head. 5 Forasmuch as ye have taken my silver and my gold, and have carried into your temples my goodly precious things, 6 and have sold the children of Judah and the children of Jerusalem unto the sons of the Grecians, that ye may remove them far from their border; 7 behold, I will stir them up out of the place whither ye have sold them, and will return your recompense upon your own head; 8 and I will sell your sons and your daughters into the hand of the children of Judah, and they shall sell them to the men of Sheba, to a nation far off: for Jehovah hath spoken it.
• Zech 9:2 : 2 and Hamath, also, which bordereth thereon; Tyre and Sidon, because they are very wise.
• Jer 27:3 : 3 and send them to the king of Edom, and to the king of Moab, and to the king of the children of Ammon, and to the king of Tyre, and to the king of Sidon, by the hand of the messengers that come to Jerusalem unto Zedekiah king of Judah;
• Jer 47:4 : 4 because of the day that cometh to destroy all the Philistines, to cut off from Tyre and Sidon every helper that remaineth: for Jehovah will destroy the Philistines, the remnant of the isle of Caphtor.
• Isa 23:2-4 : 2 Be still, ye inhabitants of the coast, thou whom the merchants of Sidon, that pass over the sea, have replenished. 3 And on great waters the seed of the Shihor, the harvest of the Nile, was her revenue; and she was the mart of nations. 4 Be thou ashamed, O Sidon; for the sea hath spoken, the stronghold of the sea, saying, I have not travailed, nor brought forth, neither have I nourished young men, nor brought up virgins.
• Isa 23:12 : 12 And he said, Thou shalt no more rejoice, O thou oppressed virgin daughter of Sidon: arise, pass over to Kittim; even there shalt thou have no rest.