Ezekiel 3:5

Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

For you are not being sent to a people with an obscure language or a difficult tongue, but to the house of Israel.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

כִּ֡י לֹא֩ אֶל־עַ֨ם עִמְקֵ֥י שָׂפָ֛ה וְכִבְדֵ֥י לָשׁ֖וֹן אַתָּ֣ה שָׁל֑וּחַ אֶל־בֵּ֖ית יִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃

Transliteration

For kî not lōʾ to ʿam ʿimqê śāp̄āh and weḵiḇdê lāšôn you ʾattāh šālûaḥ to bêt yiśrāʾēl.

Grammar Details

• *kî*: conjunction - for/because
• *lōʾ*: negative particle - not
• *ʿam*: masculine singular noun - people
• *ʿimqê*: adjective construct, masculine plural - deep of
• *śāp̄āh*: feminine singular noun - lip/language/speech
• *weḵiḇdê*: conjunction + adjective construct, masculine plural - and heavy of
• *lāšôn*: feminine singular noun - tongue/language
• *ʾattāh*: 2nd masculine singular pronoun - you
• *šālûaḥ*: Qal passive participle, masculine singular - sent
• *bêt*: construct state - house of
• *yiśrāʾēl*: proper noun - Israel

Word Meanings

• *kî*: for/because/that
• *ʿam*: people/nation/folk
• *ʿimqê*: deep/unintelligible/incomprehensible of
• *śāp̄āh*: lip/speech/language/edge
• *kiḇdê*: heavy/difficult/hard to understand of
• *lāšôn*: tongue/language/speech
• *šālûaḥ*: sent/dispatched/commissioned

Other Translations

• King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

  For thou art not sent to a people of a strange speech and of an hard language, but to the house of Israel;

• KJV1611 – Modern English

  For you are not sent to a people of a strange language and hard speech, but to the house of Israel;

• King James Version 1611 (Original)

  For thou art not sent to a people of a strange speech and of an hard language, but to the house of Israel;

• American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

  For thou art not sent{H7971} to a people{H5971} of a strange{H6012} speech{H8193} and of a hard{H3515} language,{H3956} but to the house{H1004} of Israel;{H3478}

• King James Version with Strong's Numbers

  For thou art not sent{H7971}{(H8803)} to a people{H5971} of a strange{H6012} speech{H8193} and of an hard{H3515} language{H3956}, but to the house{H1004} of Israel{H3478};

• Coverdale Bible (1535)

  for I sende the not to a people that hath a strauge, vnknowne or harde speache, but vnto the house off Israel:

• Geneva Bible (1560)

  For thou art not sent to a people of an vnknowen tongue, or of an hard language, but to the house of Israel,

• Bishops' Bible (1568)

  For not to a people of profounde lippes and harde language art thou sent, but vnto the house of Israel:

• Authorized King James Version (1611)

  For thou [art] not sent to a people of a strange speech and of an hard language, [but] to the house of Israel;

• Webster's Bible (1833)

  For you are not sent to a people of a strange speech and of a hard language, but to the house of Israel;

• Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

  For, not unto a people deep of lip and heavy of tongue `art' thou sent -- unto the house of Israel;

• American Standard Version (1901)

  For thou art not sent to a people of a strange speech and of a hard language, but to the house of Israel;

• American Standard Version (1901)

  For thou art not sent to a people of a strange speech and of a hard language, but to the house of Israel;

• Bible in Basic English (1941)

  For you are not sent to a people whose talk is strange and whose language is hard, but to the children of Israel;

• World English Bible (2000)

  For you are not sent to a people of a strange speech and of a hard language, but to the house of Israel;

• NET Bible® (New English Translation)

  For you are not being sent to a people of unintelligible speech and difficult language, but to the house of Israel–

Referenced Verses

• Jonah 1:2 : 2 Arise, go to the great city of Nineveh, and proclaim against it, because their wickedness has come up before me.
• Isa 33:19 : 19 You will no longer see the arrogant people, a people of obscure speech you cannot understand, of stammering tongue that you cannot comprehend.
• Ezek 3:6 : 6 You are not sent to many peoples with unintelligible speech or difficult tongues whose words you cannot understand. Surely, if I had sent you to them, they would have listened to you.
• Ps 81:5 : 5 For this is a statute for Israel, an ordinance of the God of Jacob.
• Isa 28:11 : 11 Indeed, with stammering lips and another tongue, He will speak to this people.
• Jonah 3:2-4 : 2 “Get up, go to the great city of Nineveh, and proclaim the message that I tell you.” 3 So Jonah got up and went to Nineveh, following the LORD's command. Now Nineveh was an exceedingly great city, taking three days to go through it. 4 Jonah began to go into the city, walking a journey of one day, and he proclaimed, saying, “In forty days Nineveh will be overturned!”
• Acts 26:17-18 : 17 I will rescue you from your own people and from the Gentiles. I am sending you to them, 18 to open their eyes so that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins and a share among those who are sanctified by faith in me.