Ezekiel 16:44

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

Behold, every one that useth proverbs shall use this proverb against thee, saying, As is the mother, so is her daughter.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

הִנֵּה֙ כָּל־הַמֹּשֵׁ֔ל עָלַ֥יִךְ יִמְשֹׁ֖ל לֵאמֹ֑ר כְּאִמָּ֖ה בִּתָּֽהּ׃

Transliteration

Behold hinnēh, all-the kol-hammōšēl upon ʿālayiḵ yimšōl to say lēʾmōr: As kəʾimmāh her bittāh.

Grammar Details

*hinnēh*: interjection - behold/lo
*kol*: noun, masculine singular construct - all of/every
*hammōšēl*: definite article + qal participle, masculine singular - the one who speaks in proverbs/makes comparisons
*ʿālayiḵ*: preposition with 2nd feminine singular suffix - concerning you/against you
*yimšōl*: qal imperfect, 3rd masculine singular - he will make a proverb/speak a byword
*lēʾmōr*: preposition + qal infinitive construct - saying
*kəʾimmāh*: preposition + noun, feminine singular with 3rd feminine singular suffix - like her mother
*bittāh*: noun, feminine singular with 3rd feminine singular suffix - her daughter

Word Meanings

*mōšēl*: one who makes a proverb/speaks in parables/makes comparisons
*yimšōl*: he will speak in proverbs/make comparisons/use as a byword

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Referenced Verses

Ezek 18:2-3 : 2 What mean ye, that ye use this proverb concerning the land of Israel, saying, The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children's teeth are set on edge? 3 As I live, saith the Lord GOD, ye shall not have occasion any more to use this proverb in Israel.
1 Sam 24:13 : 13 As saith the proverb of the ancients, Wickedness proceedeth from the wicked: but mine hand shall not be upon thee.
1 Kgs 21:16 : 16 And it came to pass, when Ahab heard that Naboth was dead, that Ahab rose up to go down to the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite, to take possession of it.
2 Kgs 17:11 : 11 And there they burnt incense in all the high places, as did the heathen whom the LORD carried away before them; and wrought wicked things to provoke the LORD to anger:
2 Kgs 17:15 : 15 And they rejected his statutes, and his covenant that he made with their fathers, and his testimonies which he testified against them; and they followed vanity, and became vain, and went after the heathen that were round about them, concerning whom the LORD had charged them, that they should not do like them.
2 Kgs 21:9 : 9 But they hearkened not: and Manasseh seduced them to do more evil than did the nations whom the LORD destroyed before the children of Israel.
Ezra 9:1 : 1 Now when these things were done, the princes came to me, saying, The people of Israel, and the priests, and the Levites, have not separated themselves from the people of the lands, doing according to their abominations, even of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Jebusites, the Ammonites, the Moabites, the Egyptians, and the Amorites.
Ps 106:35-38 : 35 But were mingled among the heathen, and learned their works. 36 And they served their idols: which were a snare unto them. 37 Yea, they sacrificed their sons and their daughters unto devils, 38 And shed innocent blood, even the blood of their sons and of their daughters, whom they sacrificed unto the idols of Canaan: and the land was polluted with blood.
Ezek 12:22 : 22 Son of man, what is that proverb that ye have in the land of Israel, saying, The days are prolonged, and every vision faileth?
Ezek 16:3 : 3 And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD unto Jerusalem; Thy birth and thy nativity is of the land of Canaan; thy father was an Amorite, and thy mother an Hittite.
Ezek 16:45 : 45 Thou art thy mother's daughter, that lotheth her husband and her children; and thou art the sister of thy sisters, which lothed their husbands and their children: your mother was an Hittite, and your father an Amorite.

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