Ezekiel 21:14

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

Thou therefore, son of man, prophesy, and smite thine hands together, and let the sword be doubled the third time, the sword of the slain: it is the sword of the great men that are slain, which entereth into their privy chambers.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

בֶּן־אָדָ֕ם הִנָּבֵא֙ וְאָ֣מַרְתָּ֔ כֹּ֖ה אָמַ֣ר אֲדֹנָ֑י אֱמֹ֕ר חֶ֥רֶב חֶ֛רֶב הוּחַ֖דָּה וְגַם־מְרוּטָֽה׃

Transliteration

ben-ʾāḏām hinnāḇēʾ and-ʾāmartā thus ʾāmar ʾăḏōnāy ʾĕmōr ḥereḇ ḥereḇ hûḥaddāh and-also-mərûṭāh.

Grammar Details

• *ben*: construct state, masculine singular - son of
• *ʾāḏām*: masculine singular - man/humanity
• *hinnāḇēʾ*: niphal imperative masculine singular - prophesy
• *ʾāmartā*: qal perfect 2nd masculine singular with waw consecutive - and you shall say
• *ʾāmar*: qal perfect 3rd masculine singular - he said
• *ʾăḏōnāy*: plural noun with 1st person suffix as divine title - my Lord
• *ʾĕmōr*: qal imperative masculine singular - say
• *ḥereḇ*: feminine singular - sword (repeated for emphasis)
• *hûḥaddāh*: hophal perfect 3rd feminine singular - it is sharpened
• *mərûṭāh*: pual participle feminine singular - polished

Word Meanings

• *hûḥaddāh*: sharpened/honed/made sharp
• *mərûṭāh*: polished/burnished/made smooth

Referenced Verses

• Num 24:10 : 10 And Balak's anger was kindled against Balaam, and he smote his hands together: and Balak said unto Balaam, I called thee to curse mine enemies, and, behold, thou hast altogether blessed them these three times.
• 2 Kgs 24:1 : 1 In his days Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up, and Jehoiakim became his servant three years: then he turned and rebelled against him.
• 2 Kgs 24:10-16 : 10 At that time the servants of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up against Jerusalem, and the city was besieged. 11 And Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came against the city, and his servants did besiege it. 12 And Jehoiachin the king of Judah went out to the king of Babylon, he, and his mother, and his servants, and his princes, and his officers: and the king of Babylon took him in the eighth year of his reign. 13 And he carried out thence all the treasures of the house of the LORD, and the treasures of the king's house, and cut in pieces all the vessels of gold which Solomon king of Israel had made in the temple of the LORD, as the LORD had said. 14 And he carried away all Jerusalem, and all the princes, and all the mighty men of valour, even ten thousand captives, and all the craftsmen and smiths: none remained, save the poorest sort of the people of the land. 15 And he carried away Jehoiachin to Babylon, and the king's mother, and the king's wives, and his officers, and the mighty of the land, those carried he into captivity from Jerusalem to Babylon. 16 And all the men of might, even seven thousand, and craftsmen and smiths a thousand, all that were strong and apt for war, even them the king of Babylon brought captive to Babylon.
• Lev 26:21 : 21 And if ye walk contrary unto me, and will not hearken unto me; I will bring seven times more plagues upon you according to your sins.
• Lev 26:24 : 24 Then will I also walk contrary unto you, and will punish you yet seven times for your sins.
• Ezek 6:11 : 11 Thus saith the Lord GOD; Smite with thine hand, and stamp with thy foot, and say, Alas for all the evil abominations of the house of Israel! for they shall fall by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence.
• Ezek 8:12 : 12 Then said he unto me, Son of man, hast thou seen what the ancients of the house of Israel do in the dark, every man in the chambers of his imagery? for they say, The LORD seeth us not; the LORD hath forsaken the earth.
• Ezek 21:17 : 17 I will also smite mine hands together, and I will cause my fury to rest: I the LORD have said it.
• Dan 3:19 : 19 Then was Nebuchadnezzar full of fury, and the form of his visage was changed against Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego: therefore he spake, and commanded that they should heat the furnace one seven times more than it was wont to be heated.
• Amos 9:2 : 2 Though they dig into hell, thence shall mine hand take them; though they climb up to heaven, thence will I bring them down:
• 1 Kgs 20:30 : 30 But the rest fled to Aphek, into the city; and there a wall fell upon twenty and seven thousand of the men that were left. And Benhadad fled, and came into the city, into an inner chamber.
• 1 Kgs 22:25 : 25 And Micaiah said, Behold, thou shalt see in that day, when thou shalt go into an inner chamber to hide thyself.
• 2 Kgs 25:1-7 : 1 And it came to pass in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, in the tenth day of the month, that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came, he, and all his host, against Jerusalem, and pitched against it; and they built forts against it round about. 2 And the city was besieged unto the eleventh year of king Zedekiah. 3 And on the ninth day of the fourth month the famine prevailed in the city, and there was no bread for the people of the land. 4 And the city was broken up, and all the men of war fled by night by the way of the gate between two walls, which is by the king's garden:(now the Chaldees were against the city round about:) and the king went the way toward the plain. 5 And the army of the Chaldees pursued after the king, and overtook him in the plains of Jericho: and all his army were scattered from him. 6 So they took the king, and brought him up to the king of Babylon to Riblah; and they gave judgment upon him. 7 And they slew the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes, and put out the eyes of Zedekiah, and bound him with fetters of brass, and carried him to Babylon.