Ezekiel 21:22

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

At his right hand was the divination for Jerusalem, to appoint captains, to open the mouth in the slaughter, to lift up the voice with shouting, to appoint battering rams against the gates, to cast a mount, and to build a fort.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וְגַם־אֲנִ֗י אַכֶּ֤ה כַפִּי֙ אֶל־כַּפִּ֔י וַהֲנִחֹתִ֖י חֲמָתִ֑י אֲנִ֥י יְהוָ֖ה דִּבַּֽרְתִּי

Transliteration

wə-gam-ʾănî ʾakkê kappî ʾel-kappî wa-hăniḥōtî ḥămātî ʾănî YHWH dibbartî

Grammar Details

*wə*-*gam*: conjunction + particle - and also
*ʾănî*: pronoun, 1st person singular - I
*ʾakkê*: hiphil imperfect, 1st person singular - I will strike
*kappî*: noun, feminine singular construct + 1st person singular suffix - my palm/hand
*ʾel*-*kappî*: preposition + noun, feminine singular construct + 1st person singular suffix - against my palm/hand
*wa*-*hăniḥōtî*: conjunction + hiphil perfect, 1st person singular - and I will cause to rest
*ḥămātî*: noun, feminine singular construct + 1st person singular suffix - my wrath
*YHWH*: proper noun - LORD
*dibbartî*: piel perfect, 1st person singular - I have spoken

Word Meanings

*ʾakkê*: strike/smite/clap
*kappî*: my palm/my hand
*hăniḥōtî*: cause to rest/satisfy/bring down
*ḥămātî*: my wrath/my anger/my heat
*dibbartî*: spoken/declared/promised

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Referenced Verses

Ezek 4:2 : 2 And lay siege against it, and build a fort against it, and cast a mount against it; set the camp also against it, and set battering rams against it round about.
Ezek 26:9 : 9 And he shall set engines of war against thy walls, and with his axes he shall break down thy towers.
Exod 32:17-18 : 17 And when Joshua heard the noise of the people as they shouted, he said unto Moses, There is a noise of war in the camp. 18 And he said, It is not the voice of them that shout for mastery, neither is it the voice of them that cry for being overcome: but the noise of them that sing do I hear.
Josh 6:10 : 10 And Joshua had commanded the people, saying, Ye shall not shout, nor make any noise with your voice, neither shall any word proceed out of your mouth, until the day I bid you shout; then shall ye shout.
Josh 6:20 : 20 So the people shouted when the priests blew with the trumpets: and it came to pass, when the people heard the sound of the trumpet, and the people shouted with a great shout, that the wall fell down flat, so that the people went up into the city, every man straight before him, and they took the city.
1 Sam 17:20 : 20 And David rose up early in the morning, and left the sheep with a keeper, and took, and went, as Jesse had commanded him; and he came to the trench, as the host was going forth to the fight, and shouted for the battle.
Job 39:25 : 25 He saith among the trumpets, Ha, ha; and he smelleth the battle afar off, the thunder of the captains, and the shouting.
Jer 32:24 : 24 Behold the mounts, they are come unto the city to take it; and the city is given into the hand of the Chaldeans, that fight against it, because of the sword, and of the famine, and of the pestilence: and what thou hast spoken is come to pass; and, behold, thou seest it.
Jer 33:4 : 4 For thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel, concerning the houses of this city, and concerning the houses of the kings of Judah, which are thrown down by the mounts, and by the sword;
Jer 51:14 : 14 The LORD of hosts hath sworn by himself, saying, Surely I will fill thee with men, as with caterpillers; and they shall lift up a shout against thee.
Jer 52:4 : 4 And it came to pass in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, in the tenth day of the month, that Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon came, he and all his army, against Jerusalem, and pitched against it, and built forts against it round about.

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