Ezekiel 3:5

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

For thou art not sent to a people of a strange speech and of a hard language, but to the house of Israel;

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

כִּ֡י לֹא֩ אֶל־עַ֨ם עִמְקֵ֥י שָׂפָ֛ה וְכִבְדֵ֥י לָשׁ֖וֹן אַתָּ֣ה שָׁל֑וּחַ אֶל־בֵּ֖ית יִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃

Transliteration

For kî not lōʾ to ʿam ʿimqê śāp̄āh and weḵiḇdê lāšôn you ʾattāh šālûaḥ to bêt yiśrāʾēl.

Grammar Details

*kî*: conjunction - for/because
*lōʾ*: negative particle - not
*ʿam*: masculine singular noun - people
*ʿimqê*: adjective construct, masculine plural - deep of
*śāp̄āh*: feminine singular noun - lip/language/speech
*weḵiḇdê*: conjunction + adjective construct, masculine plural - and heavy of
*lāšôn*: feminine singular noun - tongue/language
*ʾattāh*: 2nd masculine singular pronoun - you
*šālûaḥ*: Qal passive participle, masculine singular - sent
*bêt*: construct state - house of
*yiśrāʾēl*: proper noun - Israel

Word Meanings

*kî*: for/because/that
*ʿam*: people/nation/folk
*ʿimqê*: deep/unintelligible/incomprehensible of
*śāp̄āh*: lip/speech/language/edge
*kiḇdê*: heavy/difficult/hard to understand of
*lāšôn*: tongue/language/speech
*šālûaḥ*: sent/dispatched/commissioned

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American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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Referenced Verses

Jonah 1:2 : 2 Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and cry against it; for their wickedness is come up before me.
Isa 33:19 : 19 Thou shalt not see the fierce people, a people of a deep speech that thou canst not comprehend, of a strange tongue that thou canst not understand.
Ezek 3:6 : 6 not to many peoples of a strange speech and of a hard language, whose words thou canst not understand. Surely, if I sent thee to them, they would hearken unto thee.
Ps 81:5 : 5 He appointed it in Joseph for a testimony, When he went out over the land of Egypt, [Where] I heard a language that I knew not.
Isa 28:11 : 11 Nay, but by [men of] strange lips and with another tongue will he speak to this people;
Jonah 3:2-4 : 2 Arise, go unto Nineveh, that great city, and preach unto it the preaching that I bid thee. 3 So Jonah arose, and went unto Nineveh, according to the word of Jehovah. Now Nineveh was an exceeding great city, of three days' journey. 4 And Jonah began to enter into the city a day's journey, and he cried, and said, Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown.
Acts 26:17-18 : 17 delivering thee from the people, and from the Gentiles, unto whom {G3568} I send thee, 18 to open their eyes, that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan unto God, that they may receive remission of sins and an inheritance among them that are sanctified by faith in me.

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