Ezekiel 3:17

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Son of man, I have made you a watchman for the children of Israel: so give ear to the word of my mouth, and give them word from me of their danger.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

בֶּן־אָדָ֕ם צֹפֶ֥ה נְתַתִּ֖יךָ לְבֵ֣ית יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל וְשָׁמַעְתָּ֤ מִפִּי֙ דָּבָ֔ר וְהִזְהַרְתָּ֥ אוֹתָ֖ם מִמֶּֽנִּי׃

Transliteration

ben-ʾādām, a ṣōp̄eh I have neṯattîḵā for leḇêṯ yiśrāʾēl; and wešāmaʿtā from my mippî dāḇār, and wehizhartā them ʾôṯām from me mimmennî.

Grammar Details

• *ben-ʾādām*: construct state - son of man
• *ṣōp̄eh*: Qal participle, masculine singular - watchman
• *neṯattîḵā*: Qal perfect, 1st person singular with 2nd person masculine singular suffix - I have given/made/appointed you
• *leḇêṯ*: preposition + construct state - for house of
• *yiśrāʾēl*: proper noun - Israel
• *wešāmaʿtā*: conjunction + Qal perfect, 2nd masculine singular - and you shall hear
• *mippî*: preposition + masculine singular noun with 1st person singular suffix - from my mouth
• *dāḇār*: masculine singular noun - word
• *wehizhartā*: conjunction + Hiphil perfect, 2nd masculine singular - and you shall warn
• *ʾôṯām*: direct object marker with 3rd person masculine plural suffix - them
• *mimmennî*: preposition with 1st person singular suffix - from me

Word Meanings

• *ben-ʾādām*: son of man/human/mortal one
• *ṣōp̄eh*: watchman/sentinel/lookout
• *neṯattîḵā*: I have given you/appointed you/made you
• *wešāmaʿtā*: and you shall hear/listen/obey
• *mippî*: from my mouth/speech/command
• *dāḇār*: word/message/matter
• *wehizhartā*: and you shall warn/caution/admonish

Referenced Verses

• Isa 52:8 : 8 The voice of your watchmen! their voices are loud in song together; for they will see him, eye to eye, when the Lord comes back to Zion.
• Jer 6:17 : 17 And I put watchmen over you, saying, Give attention to the sound of the horn; but they said, We will not give attention.
• Isa 56:10 : 10 His watchmen are blind, they are all without knowledge; they are all dogs without tongues, unable to make a sound; stretched out dreaming, loving sleep.
• 2 Chr 19:10 : 10 And if any cause comes before you from your brothers living in their towns, where the death punishment is in question, or where there are questions of law or order, or rules or decisions, make them take care that they are not in the wrong before the Lord, so that wrath may not come on you and on your brothers; do this and you yourselves will not be in the wrong.
• Isa 58:1 : 1 Make a loud cry, do not be quiet, let your voice be sounding like a horn, and make clear to my people their evil doings, and to the family of Jacob their sins.
• Isa 62:6 : 6 I have put watchmen on your walls, O Jerusalem; they will not keep quiet day or night: you who are the Lord's recorders, take no rest,
• Hab 2:1 : 1 I will take my position and be on watch, placing myself on my tower, looking out to see what he will say to me, and what answer he will give to my protest.
• Heb 13:17 : 17 Give ear to those who are rulers over you, and do as they say: for they keep watch over your souls, ready to give an account of them; let them be able to do this with joy and not with grief, because that would be of no profit to you.
• Jer 31:6 : 6 For there will be a day when those who get in the grapes on the hills of Ephraim will be crying, Up! let us go up to Zion to the Lord our God.
• Ezek 33:2-9 : 2 Son of man, give a word to the children of your people, and say to them, When I make the sword come on a land, if the people of the land take a man from among their number and make him their watchman: 3 If, when he sees the sword coming on the land, by sounding the horn he gives the people news of their danger; 4 Then anyone who, hearing the sound of the horn, does not take note of it, will himself be responsible for his death, if the sword comes and takes him away. 5 On hearing the sound of the horn, he did not take note; his blood will be on him; for if he had taken note his life would have been safe. 6 But if the watchman sees the sword coming, and does not give a note on the horn, and the people have no word of the danger, and the sword comes and takes any person from among them; he will be taken away in his sin, but I will make the watchman responsible for his blood. 7 So you, son of man, I have made you a watchman for the children of Israel; and you are to give ear to the word of my mouth and give them news from me of their danger. 8 When I say to the evil-doer, Death will certainly overtake you; and you say nothing to make clear to the evil-doer the danger of his way; death will overtake that evil man in his evil-doing, but I will make you responsible for his blood. 9 But if you make clear to the evil-doer the danger of his way for the purpose of turning him from it, and he is not turned from his way, death will overtake him in his evil-doing, but your life will be safe.
• Matt 3:7 : 7 But when he saw a number of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to his baptism, he said to them, Offspring of snakes, at whose word are you going in flight from the wrath to come?
• Acts 20:28-31 : 28 Give attention to yourselves, and to all the flock which the Holy Spirit has given into your care, to give food to the church of God, for which he gave his blood. 29 I am conscious that after I am gone, evil wolves will come in among you, doing damage to the flock; 30 And from among yourselves will come men who will give wrong teaching, turning away the disciples after them. 31 So keep watch, having in mind that for three years without resting I was teaching every one of you, day and night, with weeping.
• 1 Cor 4:14 : 14 I am not saying these things to put you to shame, but so that, as my dear children, you may see what is right.
• 1 Cor 12:28 : 28 And God has put some in the church, first, Apostles; second, prophets; third, teachers; then those with wonder-working powers, then those with the power of taking away disease, helpers, wise guides, users of strange tongues.
• 2 Cor 5:11 : 11 Having in mind, then, the fear of the Lord, we put these things before men, but God sees our hearts; and it is my hope that we may seem right in your eyes.
• 2 Cor 5:20 : 20 So we are the representatives of Christ, as if God was making a request to you through us: we make our request to you, in the name of Christ, be at peace with God.
• Col 1:28 : 28 Whom we are preaching; guiding and teaching every man in all wisdom, so that every man may be complete in Christ;
• 1 Thess 5:14 : 14 And our desire is that you will keep control over those whose lives are not well ordered, giving comfort to the feeble-hearted, supporting those with little strength, and putting up with much from all.
• Jer 6:10 : 10 To whom am I to give word, witnessing so that they may take note? see, their ears are stopped, and they are not able to give attention: see, the word of the Lord has been a cause of shame to them, they have no delight in it.
• Song 3:3 : 3 The watchmen who go about the town came by me; to them I said, Have you seen him who is my heart's desire?
• Song 5:7 : 7 The keepers who go about the town overtook me; they gave me blows and wounds; the keepers of the walls took away my veil from me.
• Isa 21:6 : 6 For so has the Lord said to me, Go, let a watchman be placed; let him give word of what he sees:
• Isa 21:8 : 8 And the watchman gave a loud cry, O my lord, I am on the watchtower all day, and am placed in my watch every night:
• Isa 21:11-12 : 11 The word about Edom. A voice comes to me from Seir, Watchman, how far gone is the night? how far gone is the night? 12 The watchman says, The morning has come, but night is still to come: if you have questions to put, put them, and come back again.