Ezekiel 39:3

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

and I will smite thy bow out of thy left hand, and will cause thine arrows to fall out of thy right hand.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וְהִכֵּיתִ֥י קַשְׁתְּךָ֖ מִיַּ֣ד שְׂמֹאולֶ֑ךָ וְחִצֶּ֕יךָ מִיַּ֥ד יְמִינְךָ֖ אַפִּֽיל

Transliteration

And I will hikkêtî your qaštəkā from yad śəmōʾwlekā and your ḥiṣṣeykā from yad yəmînəkā I will ʾappîl

Grammar Details

*hikkêtî*: hiphil perfect, 1st singular - I will strike/smite
*qaštəkā*: noun, feminine singular with 2nd masculine singular suffix - your bow
*yad*: noun, feminine singular construct - hand of
*śəmōʾwlekā*: noun, masculine singular with 2nd masculine singular suffix - your left hand
*ḥiṣṣeykā*: noun, masculine plural with 2nd masculine singular suffix - your arrows
*yəmînəkā*: noun, feminine singular with 2nd masculine singular suffix - your right hand
*ʾappîl*: hiphil imperfect, 1st singular - I will cause to fall/knock down

Word Meanings

*hikkêtî*: strike/smite/hit/knock
*ʾappîl*: cause to fall/knock down/make fall

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American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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Referenced Verses

Ps 76:3 : 3 There he brake the arrows of the bow; The shield, and the sword, and the battle. {H5542}
Hos 1:5 : 5 And it shall come to pass at that day, that I will break the bow of Israel in the valley of Jezreel.
Jer 21:4-5 : 4 Thus saith Jehovah, the God of Israel, Behold, I will turn back the weapons of war that are in your hands, wherewith ye fight against the king of Babylon, and against the Chaldeans that besiege you, without the walls; and I will gather them into the midst of this city. 5 And I myself will fight against you with an outstretched hand and with a strong arm, even in anger, and in wrath, and in great indignation.
Ezek 20:21-24 : 21 But the children rebelled against me; they walked not in my statutes, neither kept mine ordinances to do them, which if a man do, he shall live in them; they profaned my sabbaths. Then I said I would pour out my wrath upon them, to accomplish my anger against them in the wilderness. 22 Nevertheless I withdrew my hand, and wrought for my name's sake, that it should not be profaned in the sight of the nations, in whose sight I brought them forth. 23 Moreover I sware unto them in the wilderness, that I would scatter them among the nations, and disperse them through the countries; 24 because they had not executed mine ordinances, but had rejected my statutes, and had profaned my sabbaths, and their eyes were after their fathers' idols.
Ps 46:9 : 9 He maketh wars to cease unto the end of the earth; He breaketh the bow, and cutteth the spear in sunder; He burneth the chariots in the fire.

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