Ezekiel 28:21

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Son of man, let your face be turned to Zidon, and be a prophet against it, and say,

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

בֶּן־אָדָ֕ם שִׂ֥ים פָּנֶ֖יךָ אֶל־צִיד֑וֹן וְהִנָּבֵ֖א עָלֶֽיהָ׃

Transliteration

ben-ʾāḏām śîm pāneḵā ʾel-ṣîḏôn wə-hinnāḇēʾ ʿāleyhā

Grammar Details

• *ben*-*ʾāḏām*: construct phrase, vocative - son of man
• *śîm*: qal imperative masculine singular - set/place
• *pāneḵā*: noun masculine plural + 2nd masculine singular suffix - your face
• *ʾel*-*ṣîḏôn*: preposition + proper noun - toward Sidon
• *wə-hinnāḇēʾ*: conjunction + niphal imperative masculine singular - and prophesy
• *ʿāleyhā*: preposition + 3rd feminine singular suffix - against it/her

Word Meanings

• *śîm* *pāneḵā*: set your face/turn your attention
• *hinnāḇēʾ*: prophesy/speak as a prophet

Referenced Verses

• Ezek 6:2 : 2 Son of man, let your face be turned to the mountains of Israel, and be a prophet to them, and say,
• Gen 10:15 : 15 And Canaan was the father of Zidon, who was his oldest son, and Heth,
• Jer 25:22 : 22 And all the kings of Tyre, and all the kings of Zidon, and the kings of the lands across the sea;
• Ezek 25:2 : 2 Son of man, let your face be turned to the children of Ammon, and be a prophet against them:
• Ezek 27:8 : 8 The people of Zidon and Arvad were your boatmen; the wise men of Zemer were in you; they were guiding your ships;
• Ezek 29:2 : 2 Son of man, let your face be turned against Pharaoh, king of Egypt, and be a prophet against him and against all Egypt:
• Ezek 32:30 : 30 There are the chiefs of the north, all of them, and all the Zidonians, who have gone down with those who have been put to the sword: they are shamed on account of all the fear caused by their strength; they are resting there without circumcision, among those who have been put to the sword, and are put to shame with those who go down to the underworld.
• Joel 3:4-8 : 4 The sun will be made dark and the moon turned to blood, before the great day of the Lord comes, a day to be feared. 5 And it will be that whoever makes his prayer to the name of the Lord will be kept safe: for in Mount Zion and in Jerusalem some will be kept safe, as the Lord has said, and will be among the small band marked out by the Lord. 6 For in those days and in that time, when I let the fate of Judah and Jerusalem be changed, 7 I will get together all the nations, and make them come down into the valley of Jehoshaphat; and there I will take up with them the cause of my people and of my heritage Israel, whom they have sent wandering among the nations, and of my land which has been parted by them. 8 And they have put the fate of my people to the decision of chance: giving a boy for the price of a loose woman and a girl for a drink of wine.
• Zech 9:2 : 2 As well as Hamath, which is by its limit, and Tyre and Zidon, because they are very wise.
• Jer 27:3 : 3 And send them to the king of Edom, and to the king of Moab, and to the king of the children of Ammon, and to the king of Tyre, and to the king of Zidon, by their servants who come to Jerusalem, to Zedekiah, king of Judah;
• Jer 47:4 : 4 Because of the day which is coming with destruction on all the Philistines, cutting off from Tyre and Zidon the last of their helpers: for the Lord will send destruction on the Philistines, the rest of the sea-land of Caphtor.
• Isa 23:2-4 : 2 Send out a cry of grief, you men of the sea-land, traders of Zidon, who go over the sea, whose representatives are on great waters; 3 Who get in the seed of Shihor, whose wealth is the trade of the nations. 4 Be shamed, O Zidon: for the sea, the strong place of the sea has said, I have not been with child, or given birth; I have not taken care of young men, or kept watch over the growth of virgins.
• Isa 23:12 : 12 And he said, There is no more joy for you, O crushed virgin daughter of Zidon: up! go over to Kittim; even there you will have no rest.