Ezekiel 47:11

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

But the miry places thereof, and the marshes thereof, shall not be healed; they shall be given up to salt.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

בִּצֹּאתָ֧יו וּגְבָאָ֛יו וְלֹ֥א יֵרָפְא֖וּ לְמֶ֥לַח נִתָּֽנוּ

Transliteration

In-biṣṣōʾtāyw and-gəbāʾāyw and-not yērāpəʾû to-melaḥ nittānû

Grammar Details

• *biṣṣōʾtāyw*: noun feminine plural construct with 3rd masculine singular suffix - its swamps/marshes
• *gəbāʾāyw*: noun masculine plural construct with 3rd masculine singular suffix - its pools/puddles
• *yērāpəʾû*: Niphal imperfect 3rd masculine plural - they will be healed
• *melaḥ*: noun masculine singular - salt
• *nittānû*: Niphal perfect 3rd common plural - they are given

Word Meanings

• *biṣṣōʾtāyw*: its swamps/its marshes/its muddy places
• *gəbāʾāyw*: its pools/its puddles/its stagnant waters
• *yērāpəʾû*: they will be healed/they will be made fresh
• *melaḥ*: salt/saltiness
• *nittānû*: they are given/they are assigned/they are consigned

Referenced Verses

• Deut 29:23 : 23 [ and that] the whole land thereof is brimstone, and salt, [and] a burning, [that] it is not sown, nor beareth, nor any grass groweth therein, like the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which Jehovah overthrew in his anger, and in his wrath:
• Rev 22:11 : 11 He that is unrighteous, let him do unrighteousness still: and he that is filthy, let him be made filthy still: and he that is righteous, let him do righteousness still: and he that is holy, let him be made holy still.
• Judg 9:45 : 45 And Abimelech fought against the city all that day; and he took the city, and slew the people that were therein: and he beat down the city, and sowed it with salt.
• Ps 107:34 : 34 A fruitful land into a salt desert, For the wickedness of them that dwell therein.
• Jer 17:6 : 6 For he shall be like the heath in the desert, and shall not see when good cometh, but shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, a salt land and not inhabited.
• Mark 9:48-49 : 48 where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched. 49 For every one shall be salted with fire.
• Heb 6:4-8 : 4 For as touching those who were once enlightened and tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Spirit, 5 and tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the age to come, 6 and [then] fell away, it is impossible to renew them again unto repentance; seeing they crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and put him to an open shame. 7 For the land which hath drunk the rain that cometh oft upon it, and bringeth forth herbs meet for them {G2532} for whose sake it is also tilled, receiveth blessing from God: 8 but if it beareth thorns and thistles, it is rejected and nigh unto a curse; whose end is to be burned.
• Heb 10:26-31 : 26 For if we sin wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more a sacrifice for sins, 27 but a certain fearful expectation of judgment, and a fierceness of fire which shall devour the adversaries. 28 A man that hath set at nought Moses law dieth without compassion on [the word of] two or three witnesses: 29 of how much sorer punishment, think ye, shall he be judged worthy, who hath trodden under foot the Son of God, and hath counted the blood of the covenant wherewith {G1722} he was sanctified an unholy thing, and hath done despite unto the Spirit of grace? 30 For we know him that said, Vengeance belongeth unto me, I will recompense. {G3004} {G2962} And again, The Lord shall judge his people. 31 It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.
• 2 Pet 2:19-22 : 19 promising them liberty, while they themselves are bondservants of corruption; for of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he also brought into bondage. 20 For if, after they have escaped the defilements of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein and overcome, the last state is become worse with them than the first. 21 For it were better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after knowing it, to turn back from the holy commandment delivered unto them. 22 {G1161} It has happened unto them according to the true proverb, The dog turning to his own vomit again, and the sow that had washed to wallowing in the mire.
• Rev 21:8 : 8 But for the fearful, and unbelieving, and abominable, and murderers, and fornicators, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, their part [shall be] in the lake that burneth with fire and brimstone; which is the second death.