Ezekiel 39:18

Authorized King James Version (1611)

Ye shall eat the flesh of the mighty, and drink the blood of the princes of the earth, of rams, of lambs, and of goats, of bullocks, all of them fatlings of Bashan.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

בְּשַׂ֤ר גִּבּוֹרִים֙ תֹּאכֵ֔לוּ וְדַם־נְשִׂיאֵ֥י הָאָ֖רֶץ תִּשְׁתּ֑וּ אֵילִ֨ים כָּרִ֤ים וְעַתּוּדִים֙ פָּרִ֔ים מְרִיאֵ֥י בָשָׁ֖ן כֻּלָּֽם

Transliteration

bəśar of gibbôrîm you shall tōʾkēlû, and dam of nəśîʾê of the ʾāreṣ you shall tištû: ʾêlîm, kārîm, and ʿattûdîm, pārîm, mərîʾê of bāšān all of them

Grammar Details

• *bəśar*: noun, masculine singular construct - flesh of
• *gibbôrîm*: adjective, masculine plural - mighty ones/warriors
• *tōʾkēlû*: qal imperfect, 2nd masculine plural - you will eat
• *dam*: noun, masculine singular construct - blood of
• *nəśîʾê*: noun, masculine plural construct - princes/chiefs of
• *ʾāreṣ*: noun, feminine singular with definite article - the land/earth
• *tištû*: qal imperfect, 2nd masculine plural - you will drink
• *ʾêlîm*: noun, masculine plural - rams
• *kārîm*: noun, masculine plural - young rams/lambs
• *ʿattûdîm*: noun, masculine plural - male goats/he-goats
• *pārîm*: noun, masculine plural - bulls/young bulls
• *mərîʾê*: noun, masculine plural construct - fatlings of
• *bāšān*: proper noun - Bashan

Word Meanings

• *gibbôrîm*: mighty ones/warriors/heroes
• *nəśîʾê*: princes/chiefs/rulers/leaders
• *mərîʾê*: fatlings/fattened animals

Referenced Verses

• Ps 22:12 : 12 Many bulls have compassed me: strong [bulls] of Bashan have beset me round.
• Jer 51:40 : 40 I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams with he goats.
• Ezek 29:5 : 5 And I will leave thee [thrown] into the wilderness, thee and all the fish of thy rivers: thou shalt fall upon the open fields; thou shalt not be brought together, nor gathered: I have given thee for meat to the beasts of the field and to the fowls of the heaven.
• Jer 50:27 : 27 Slay all her bullocks; let them go down to the slaughter: woe unto them! for their day is come, the time of their visitation.
• Amos 4:1 : 1 ¶ Hear this word, ye kine of Bashan, that [are] in the mountain of Samaria, which oppress the poor, which crush the needy, which say to their masters, Bring, and let us drink.
• Rev 19:17-18 : 17 And I saw an angel standing in the sun; and he cried with a loud voice, saying to all the fowls that fly in the midst of heaven, Come and gather yourselves together unto the supper of the great God; 18 That ye may eat the flesh of kings, and the flesh of captains, and the flesh of mighty men, and the flesh of horses, and of them that sit on them, and the flesh of all [men, both] free and bond, both small and great.
• Rev 19:21 : 21 And the remnant were slain with the sword of him that sat upon the horse, which [sword] proceeded out of his mouth: and all the fowls were filled with their flesh.
• Deut 32:14 : 14 Butter of kine, and milk of sheep, with fat of lambs, and rams of the breed of Bashan, and goats, with the fat of kidneys of wheat; and thou didst drink the pure blood of the grape.
• Ezek 34:8 : 8 [As] I live, saith the Lord GOD, surely because my flock became a prey, and my flock became meat to every beast of the field, because [there was] no shepherd, neither did my shepherds search for my flock, but the shepherds fed themselves, and fed not my flock;
• Ezek 34:17 : 17 ¶ And [as for] you, O my flock, thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I judge between cattle and cattle, between the rams and the he goats.
• Ps 68:30 : 30 Rebuke the company of spearmen, the multitude of the bulls, with the calves of the people, [till every one] submit himself with pieces of silver: scatter thou the people [that] delight in war.
• Isa 34:7 : 7 And the unicorns shall come down with them, and the bullocks with the bulls; and their land shall be soaked with blood, and their dust made fat with fatness.
• Jer 50:11 : 11 Because ye were glad, because ye rejoiced, O ye destroyers of mine heritage, because ye are grown fat as the heifer at grass, and bellow as bulls;