Ezekiel 4:14

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

Then said I, Ah Lord Jehovah! behold, my soul hath not been polluted; for from my youth up even till now have I not eaten of that which dieth of itself, or is torn of beasts; neither came there abominable flesh into my mouth.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וָאֹמַ֗ר אֲהָהּ֙ אֲדֹנָ֣י יְהוִ֔ה הִנֵּ֥ה נַפְשִׁ֖י לֹ֣א מְטֻמָּאָ֑ה וּנְבֵלָ֨ה וּטְרֵפָ֤ה לֹֽא־אָכַ֙לְתִּי֙ מִנְּעוּרַ֣י וְעַד־עַ֔תָּה וְלֹא־בָ֥א בְּפִ֖י בְּשַׂ֥ר פִּגּֽוּל׃

Transliteration

And-ʾōmar ʾăhāh ʾăḏōnāy YHWH behold nap̄šî not mᵊṭummāʾāh and-nᵊḇēlāh and-ṭᵊrēp̄āh not-ʾāḵaltî from-nᵊʿûray and-until-now and-not-came in-mouth-my bᵊśar piggûl

Grammar Details

*ʾōmar*: verb, qal imperfect with vav-consecutive, 1st person, singular - and I said
*ʾăhāh*: interjection - ah/alas
*ʾăḏōnāy*: noun, masculine, singular with 1st person singular suffix - my Lord
*YHWH*: proper noun - LORD/Yahweh
*hinnēh*: particle - behold/look
*nap̄šî*: noun, feminine, singular with 1st person singular suffix - my soul
*mᵊṭummāʾāh*: verb, pual participle, feminine, singular - defiled/made unclean
*nᵊḇēlāh*: noun, feminine, singular - carcass/animal that died naturally
*ṭᵊrēp̄āh*: noun, feminine, singular - torn animal/animal killed by predator
*ʾāḵaltî*: verb, qal perfect, 1st person, singular - I have eaten
*nᵊʿûray*: noun, masculine, plural with 1st person singular suffix - my youth
*bᵊśar*: noun, masculine, singular, construct - flesh of
*piggûl*: noun, masculine, singular - foul thing/offensive meat

Word Meanings

*ʾăhāh*: ah/alas/expression of distress
*nap̄šî*: my soul/my self/my life
*mᵊṭummāʾāh*: defiled/made unclean/ritually impure
*nᵊḇēlāh*: carcass/animal that died naturally/forbidden food
*ṭᵊrēp̄āh*: torn animal/animal killed by predator/forbidden food
*piggûl*: foul thing/offensive meat/ritually unacceptable food

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American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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Referenced Verses

Ezek 9:8 : 8 And it came to pass, while they were smiting, and I was left, that I fell upon my face, and cried, and said, Ah Lord Jehovah! wilt thou destroy all the residue of Israel in thy pouring out of thy wrath upon Jerusalem?
Ezek 20:49 : 49 Then said I, Ah Lord Jehovah! they say of me, Is he not a speaker of parables?
Acts 10:14 : 14 But Peter said, Not so, Lord; for I have never eaten anything that is common and unclean.
Jer 1:6 : 6 Then said I, Ah, Lord Jehovah! behold, I know not how to speak; for I am a child.
Deut 14:3 : 3 Thou shalt not eat any abominable thing.
Isa 65:4 : 4 that sit among the graves, and lodge in the secret places; that eat swine's flesh, and broth of abominable things is in their vessels;
Isa 66:17 : 17 They that sanctify themselves and purify themselves [to go] unto the gardens, behind one in the midst, eating swine's flesh, and the abomination, and the mouse, they shall come to an end together, saith Jehovah.
Exod 22:31 : 31 And ye shall be holy men unto me: therefore ye shall not eat any flesh that is torn of beasts in the field; ye shall cast it to the dogs.
Lev 17:15 : 15 And every soul that eateth that which dieth of itself, or that which is torn of beasts, whether he be home-born or a sojourner, he shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the even: then shall he be clean.
Lev 19:7 : 7 And if it be eaten at all on the third day, it is an abomination; it shall not be accepted:
Lev 11:39-40 : 39 And if any beast, of which ye may eat, die; he that toucheth the carcass thereof shall be unclean until the even. 40 And he that eateth of the carcass of it shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the even: he also that beareth the carcass of it shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the even.
Ezek 44:31 : 31 The priests shall not eat of anything that dieth of itself, or is torn, whether it be bird or beast.

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