Ezekiel 7:16

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

But those of them that escape shall escape, and shall be on the mountains like doves of the valleys, all of them moaning, every one in his iniquity.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וּפָֽלְטוּ֙ פְּלִ֣יטֵיהֶ֔ם וְהָי֣וּ אֶל־הֶהָרִ֗ים כְּיוֹנֵ֧י הַגֵּאָי֛וֹת כֻּלָּ֖ם הֹמ֑וֹת אִ֖ישׁ בַּעֲוֺנֽוֹ׃

Transliteration

û-p̱ālṭû pəlîṭêhem wə-hāyû ʾel-he-hārîm kə-yônê ha-gêʾāyôṯ kullām hōmôṯ ʾîš ba-ʿăwōnô

Grammar Details

• *û-p̱ālṭû*: conjunction + qal perfect, 3rd common plural - and they will escape
• *pəlîṭêhem*: noun, masculine plural + 3rd masculine plural suffix - their fugitives
• *wə-hāyû*: conjunction + qal perfect, 3rd common plural - and they will be
• *ʾel*-*he-hārîm*: preposition + definite article + noun, masculine plural - to the mountains
• *kə-yônê*: preposition + noun, feminine plural construct - like doves of
• *ha-gêʾāyôṯ*: definite article + noun, masculine plural - the valleys
• *kullām*: noun, masculine singular + 3rd masculine plural suffix - all of them
• *hōmôṯ*: qal participle, feminine plural - moaning/mourning
• *ʾîš*: noun, masculine singular - man/each one
• *ba-ʿăwōnô*: preposition + noun, masculine singular + 3rd masculine singular suffix - in his iniquity

Word Meanings

• *p̱ālṭû*: escape/flee/slip away
• *pəlîṭêhem*: their fugitives/escapees/survivors
• *hārîm*: mountains/hills
• *yônê*: doves/pigeons
• *gêʾāyôṯ*: valleys/ravines
• *hōmôṯ*: moaning/mourning/muttering
• *ʿăwōn*: iniquity/guilt/punishment

Referenced Verses

• Isa 38:14 : 14 Like a swallow [or] a crane, so did I chatter; I did moan as a dove; mine eyes fail [with looking] upward: O Lord, I am oppressed, be thou my surety.
• Isa 59:11 : 11 We roar all like bears, and moan sore like doves: we look for justice, but there is none; for salvation, but it is far off from us.
• Ezra 9:15 : 15 O Jehovah, the God of Israel, you are righteous; for we are left a remnant that is escaped, as it is this day: behold, we are before you in our guiltiness; for none can stand before you because of this.
• Isa 37:31 : 31 And the remnant that is escaped of the house of Judah shall again take root downward, and bear fruit upward.
• Prov 5:11-14 : 11 And thou mourn at thy latter end, When thy flesh and thy body are consumed, 12 And say, How have I hated instruction, And my heart despised reproof; 13 Neither have I obeyed the voice of my teachers, Nor inclined mine ear to them that instructed me! 14 I was well-nigh in all evil In the midst of the assembly and congregation.
• Isa 1:9 : 9 Except Jehovah of hosts had left unto us a very small remnant, we should have been as Sodom, we should have been like unto Gomorrah.
• Jer 31:9 : 9 They shall come with weeping; and with supplications will I lead them: I will cause them to walk by rivers of waters, in a straight way wherein they shall not stumble; for I am a father to Israel, and Ephraim is my first-born.
• Jer 31:18-19 : 18 I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself [thus], Thou hast chastised me, and I was chastised, as a calf unaccustomed [to the yoke]: turn thou me, and I shall be turned; for thou art Jehovah my God. 19 Surely after that I was turned, I repented; and after that I was instructed, I smote upon my thigh: I was ashamed, yea, even confounded, because I did bear the reproach of my youth.
• Jer 44:14 : 14 so that none of the remnant of Judah, that are gone into the land of Egypt to sojourn there, shall escape or be left, to return into the land of Judah, to which they have a desire to return to dwell there: for none shall return save such as shall escape.
• Jer 44:28 : 28 And they that escape the sword shall return out of the land of Egypt into the land of Judah, few in number; and all the remnant of Judah, that are gone into the land of Egypt to sojourn there, shall know whose word shall stand, mine, or theirs.
• Jer 50:4-5 : 4 In those days, and in that time, saith Jehovah, the children of Israel shall come, they and the children of Judah together; they shall go on their way weeping, and shall seek Jehovah their God. 5 They shall inquire concerning Zion with their faces thitherward, [saying], Come ye, and join yourselves to Jehovah in an everlasting covenant that shall not be forgotten.
• Ezek 6:8-9 : 8 Yet will I leave a remnant, in that ye shall have some that escape the sword among the nations, when ye shall be scattered through the countries. 9 And those of you that escape shall remember me among the nations whither they shall be carried captive, how that I have been broken with their lewd heart, which hath departed from me, and with they eyes, which play the harlot after their idols: and they shall loathe themselves in their own sight for the evils which they have committed in all their abominations.
• Ezek 36:31 : 31 Then shall ye remember your evil ways, and your doings that were not good; and ye shall loathe yourselves in your own sight for your iniquities and for your abominations.
• Zech 12:10-14 : 10 And I will pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplication; and they shall look unto me whom they have pierced; and they shall mourn for him, as one mourneth for his only son, and shall be in bitterness for him, as one that is in bitterness for his first-born. 11 In that day shall there be a great mourning in Jerusalem, as the mourning of Hadadrimmon in the valley of Megiddon. 12 And the land shall mourn, every family apart; the family of the house of David apart, and their wives apart; the family of the house of Nathan apart, and their wives apart; 13 the family of the house of Levi apart, and their wives apart; the family of the Shimeites apart, and their wives apart; 14 all the families that remain, every family apart, and their wives apart.