Ezekiel 37:27

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

My tabernacle also shall be with them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וְהָיָ֤ה מִשְׁכָּנִי֙ עֲלֵיהֶ֔ם וְהָיִ֥יתִי לָהֶ֖ם לֵֽאלֹהִ֑ים וְהֵ֖מָּה יִֽהְיוּ־לִ֥י לְעָֽם׃

Transliteration

And wᵊhāyâ miškanî over them ʿălêhem and wᵊhāyîtî to them lāhem for God lēʾlōhîm and they wᵊhēmmâ will be yihyû-lî to me lî for a people lᵊʿām

Grammar Details

• *wᵊhāyâ*: verb, qal perfect with waw-consecutive, 3rd person masculine singular - and it will be
• *miškanî*: noun, masculine singular with 1st person singular suffix - my tabernacle/dwelling place
• *ʿălêhem*: preposition with 3rd person masculine plural suffix - over them
• *wᵊhāyîtî*: verb, qal perfect with waw-consecutive, 1st person singular - and I will be
• *lāhem*: preposition with 3rd person masculine plural suffix - to them
• *lēʾlōhîm*: preposition with noun, masculine plural - for God
• *wᵊhēmmâ*: conjunction with pronoun, 3rd person masculine plural - and they
• *yihyû-lî*: verb, qal imperfect, 3rd person masculine plural with preposition and 1st person singular suffix - they will be to me
• *lᵊʿām*: preposition with noun, masculine singular - for a people

Word Meanings

• *miškān*: tabernacle/dwelling place/habitation
• *ʾĕlōhîm*: God/gods/divine beings
• *ʿam*: people/nation/kinsmen

Referenced Verses

• Ezek 37:23 : 23 neither shall they defile themselves any more with their idols, nor with their detestable things, nor with any of their transgressions; but I will save them out of all their dwelling-places, wherein they have sinned, and will cleanse them: so shall they be my people, and I will be their God.
• John 1:14 : 14 And the Word became flesh, and dwelt among us (and we beheld his glory, glory as of the only begotten from the Father), full of grace and truth.
• Rev 21:3 : 3 And I heard a great voice out of the throne saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he shall dwell with them, and they shall be his peoples, and God himself shall be with them, [ and be] their God:
• Rev 21:22 : 22 And I saw no temple therein: {G1722} for the Lord God the Almighty, and the Lamb, are the temple thereof.
• 2 Cor 6:16 : 16 And what agreement hath a temple of God with idols? for we are a temple of the living God; even as God said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
• Col 2:9-9 : 9 for in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily, 10 and in him ye are made full, who is the head of all principality and power:
• Hos 2:23 : 23 And I will sow her unto me in the earth; and I will have mercy upon her that had not obtained mercy; and I will say to them that were not my people, Thou art my people; and they shall say, [Thou art] my God.
• Lev 26:11-12 : 11 And I will set my tabernacle among you: and my soul shall not abhor you. 12 And I will walk among you, and will be your God, and ye shall be my people.
• Ezek 11:20 : 20 that they may walk in my statutes, and keep mine ordinances, and do them: and they shall be my people, and I will be their God.
• Ezek 14:11 : 11 that the house of Israel may go no more astray from me, neither defile themselves any more with all their transgressions; but that they may be my people, and I may be their God, saith the Lord Jehovah.
• Ezek 36:28 : 28 And ye shall dwell in the land that I gave to your fathers; and ye shall be my people, and I will be your God.