Ezekiel 36:25

King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

Then will I sprinkle clean water upon you, and ye shall be clean: from all your filthiness, and from all your idols, will I cleanse you.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וְזָרַקְתִּ֧י עֲלֵיכֶ֛ם מַ֥יִם טְהוֹרִ֖ים וּטְהַרְתֶּ֑ם מִכֹּ֧ל טֻמְאוֹתֵיכֶ֛ם וּמִכָּל־גִּלּ֥וּלֵיכֶ֖ם אֲטַהֵ֥ר אֶתְכֶֽם׃

Transliteration

And-zāraqtî upon-you mayim ṭәhôrîm and-ṭәhartem from-all ṭumʾôtêkhem and-from-all-gillûlêkhem ʾăṭahēr you

Grammar Details

• *zāraqtî*: Qal perfect 1st person singular with waw consecutive - and I will sprinkle
• *mayim*: masculine plural - waters
• *ṭәhôrîm*: masculine plural - clean/pure
• *ṭәhartem*: Qal perfect 2nd person masculine plural with waw consecutive - and you will be clean
• *ṭumʾôtêkhem*: feminine plural with 2nd person masculine plural suffix - your uncleannesses
• *gillûlêkhem*: masculine plural with 2nd person masculine plural suffix - your idols
• *ʾăṭahēr*: Piel imperfect 1st person singular - I will cleanse

Word Meanings

• *zāraqtî*: I will sprinkle/I will scatter/I will toss
• *mayim ṭәhôrîm*: clean waters/pure waters
• *ṭәhartem*: you will be clean/you will be purified
• *ṭumʾôtêkhem*: your uncleannesses/your impurities/your filthiness
• *gillûlêkhem*: your idols/your dung-idols/your detestable things
• *ʾăṭahēr*: I will cleanse/I will purify/I will make clean

Referenced Verses

• Titus 3:5-6 : 5 Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost; 6 Which he shed on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Saviour;
• Heb 10:22 : 22 Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water.
• Hos 14:3 : 3 Asshur shall not save us; we will not ride upon rses: neither will we say any more to the work of our hands, Ye are our gods: for in thee the fatherless findeth mercy.
• Ps 51:7 : 7 Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean: wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.
• Isa 4:4 : 4 When the Lord shall have washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion, and shall have purged the blood of Jerusalem from the midst thereof by the spirit of judgment, and by the spirit of burning.
• Jer 33:8 : 8 And I will cleanse them from all their iniquity, whereby they have sinned against me; and I will pardon all their iniquities, whereby they have sinned, and whereby they have transgressed against me.
• Zech 13:1-2 : 1 In that day there shall be a fountain opened to the house of David and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem for sin and for uncleanness. 2 And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the LORD of hosts, that I will cut off the names of the idols out of the land, and they shall no more be remembered: and also I will cause the prophets and the unclean spirit to pass out of the land.
• Ezek 36:17 : 17 Son of man, when the house of Israel dwelt in their own land, they defiled it by their own way and by their doings: their way was before me as the uncleanness of a removed woman.
• Ps 51:2 : 2 Wash me throughly from mine iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin.
• Ezek 37:23 : 23 Neither shall they defile themselves any more with their idols, nor with their detestable things, nor with any of their transgressions: but I will save them out of all their dwellingplaces, wherein they have sinned, and will cleanse them: so shall they be my people, and I will be their God.
• Isa 52:15 : 15 So shall he sprinkle many nations; the kings shall shut their mouths at him: for that which had not been told them shall they see; and that which they had not heard shall they consider.
• Hos 14:8 : 8 Ephraim shall say, What have I to do any more with idols? I have heard him, and observed him: I am like a green fir tree. From me is thy fruit found.
• Heb 9:19 : 19 For when Moses had spoken every precept to all the people according to the law, he took the blood of calves and of goats, with water, and scarlet wool, and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book, and all the people,
• Lev 14:5-7 : 5 And the priest shall command that one of the birds be kild in an earthen vessel over running water: 6 As for the living bird, he shall take it, and the cedar wood, and the scart, and the hyssop, and shall dip them and the living bird in the blood of the bird that was kild over the running water: 7 And he shall sprink upon him that is to be cansed from the prosy seven times, and shall pronounce him can, and shall t the living bird loose into the open field.
• Num 8:7 : 7 And thus shalt thou do unto them, to cleanse them: Sprinkle water of purifying upon them, and let them shave all their flesh, and let them wash their clothes, and so make themselves clean.
• Num 19:13-20 : 13 Whosoever toucheth the dead body of any man that is dead, and purifieth not himself, defileth the tabernacle of the LORD; and that soul shall be cut off from Israel: because the water of separation was not sprinkled upon him, he shall be unclean; his uncleanness is yet upon him. 14 This is the law, when a man dieth in a tent: all that come into the tent, and all that is in the tent, shall be unclean seven days. 15 And every open vessel, which hath no covering bound upon it, is unclean. 16 And whosoever toucheth one that is slain with a sword in the open fields, or a dead body, or a bone of a man, or a grave, shall be unclean seven days. 17 And for an unclean person they shall take of the ashes of the burnt heifer of purification for sin, and running water shall be put thereto in a vessel: 18 And a clean person shall take hyssop, and dip it in the water, and sprinkle it upon the tent, and upon all the vessels, and upon the persons that were there, and upon him that touched a bone, or one slain, or one dead, or a grave: 19 And the clean person shall sprinkle upon the unclean on the third day, and on the seventh day: and on the seventh day he shall purify himself, and wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and shall be clean at even. 20 But the man that shall be unclean, and shall not purify himself, that soul shall be cut off from among the congregation, because he hath defiled the sanctuary of the LORD: the water of separation hath not been sprinkled upon him; he is unclean.
• John 3:5 : 5 Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.
• Acts 22:16 : 16 And now why tarriest thou? arise, and be baptized, and wash away thy sins, calling on the name of the Lord.
• 1 Cor 6:11 : 11 And such were some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God.
• 2 Cor 7:1 : 1 Having therefore these promises, dearly beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.
• Eph 5:26-27 : 26 That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word, 27 That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.
• Titus 2:14 : 14 Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works.
• Ezek 36:29 : 29 I will also save you from all your uncleannesses: and I will call for the corn, and will increase it, and lay no famine upon you.
• Prov 30:12 : 12 There is a generation that are pure in their own eyes, and yet is not washed from their filthiness.
• Isa 2:18-20 : 18 And the idols he shall utterly abolish. 19 And they shall go into the holes of the rocks, and into the caves of the earth, for fear of the LORD, and for the glory of his majesty, when he ariseth to shake terribly the earth. 20 In that day a man shall cast his idols of silver, and his idols of gold, which they made each one for himself to worship, to the moles and to the bats;
• Jer 3:22-23 : 22 Return, ye backsliding children, and I will heal your backslidings. Behold, we come unto thee; for thou art the LORD our God. 23 Truly in vain is salvation hoped for from the hills, and from the multitude of mountains: truly in the LORD our God is the salvation of Israel.
• Isa 17:7-8 : 7 At that day shall a man look to his Maker, and his eyes shall have respect to the Holy One of Israel. 8 And he shall not look to the altars, the work of his hands, neither shall respect that which his fingers have made, either the groves, or the images.
• Heb 9:13-14 : 13 For if the blood of bulls and of goats, and the ashes of an heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctifieth to the purifying of the flesh: 14 How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?
• 1 John 1:7 : 7 But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin.
• 1 John 5:6 : 6 This is he that came by water and blood, even Jesus Christ; not by water only, but by water and blood. And it is the Spirit that beareth witness, because the Spirit is truth.
• Rev 1:5 : 5 And from Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness, and the first begotten of the dead, and the prince of the kings of the earth. Unto him that loved us, and washed us from our sins in his own blood,
• Rev 7:14 : 14 And I said unto him, Sir, thou knowest. And he said to me, These a they which came out of gat tribulation, and have washed their robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.