Ezekiel 28:21

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

Son of man, set thy face against Zidon, and prophesy against it,

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

בֶּן־אָדָ֕ם שִׂ֥ים פָּנֶ֖יךָ אֶל־צִיד֑וֹן וְהִנָּבֵ֖א עָלֶֽיהָ׃

Transliteration

ben-ʾāḏām śîm pāneḵā ʾel-ṣîḏôn wə-hinnāḇēʾ ʿāleyhā

Grammar Details

• *ben*-*ʾāḏām*: construct phrase, vocative - son of man
• *śîm*: qal imperative masculine singular - set/place
• *pāneḵā*: noun masculine plural + 2nd masculine singular suffix - your face
• *ʾel*-*ṣîḏôn*: preposition + proper noun - toward Sidon
• *wə-hinnāḇēʾ*: conjunction + niphal imperative masculine singular - and prophesy
• *ʿāleyhā*: preposition + 3rd feminine singular suffix - against it/her

Word Meanings

• *śîm* *pāneḵā*: set your face/turn your attention
• *hinnāḇēʾ*: prophesy/speak as a prophet

Referenced Verses

• Ezek 6:2 : 2 Son of man, set thy face toward the mountains of Israel, and prophesy against them,
• Gen 10:15 : 15 And Canaan begat Sidon his firstborn, and Heth,
• Jer 25:22 : 22 And all the kings of Tyrus, and all the kings of Zidon, and the kings of the isles which are beyond the sea,
• Ezek 25:2 : 2 Son of man, set thy face against the Ammonites, and prophesy against them;
• Ezek 27:8 : 8 The inhabitants of Zidon and Arvad were thy mariners: thy wise men, O Tyrus, that were in thee, were thy pilots.
• Ezek 29:2 : 2 Son of man, set thy face against Pharaoh king of Egypt, and prophesy against him, and against all Egypt:
• Ezek 32:30 : 30 There be the princes of the north, all of them, and all the Zidonians, which are gone down with the slain; with their terror they are ashamed of their might; and they lie uncircumcised with them that be slain by the sword, and bear their shame with them that go down to the pit.
• Joel 3:4-8 : 4 Yea, and what have ye to do with me, O Tyre, and Zidon, and all the coasts of Palestine? will ye render me a recompence? and if ye recompense me, swiftly and speedily will I return your recompence upon your own head; 5 Because ye have taken my silver and my gold, and have carried into your temples my goodly pleasant things: 6 The children also of Judah and the children of Jerusalem have ye sold unto the Grecians, that ye might remove them far from their border. 7 Behold, I will raise them out of the place whither ye have sold them, and will return your recompence upon your own head: 8 And I will sell your sons and your daughters into the hand of the children of Judah, and they shall sell them to the Sabeans, to a people far off: for the LORD hath spoken it.
• Zech 9:2 : 2 And Hamath also shall border thereby; Tyrus, and Zidon, though it be very wise.
• Jer 27:3 : 3 And send them to the king of Edom, and to the king of Moab, and to the king of the Ammonites, and to the king of Tyrus, and to the king of Zidon, by the hand of the messengers which come to Jerusalem unto Zedekiah king of Judah;
• Jer 47:4 : 4 Because of the day that cometh to spoil all the Philistines, and to cut off from Tyrus and Zidon every helper that remaineth: for the LORD will spoil the Philistines, the remnant of the country of Caphtor.
• Isa 23:2-4 : 2 Be still, ye inhabitants of the isle; thou whom the merchants of Zidon, that pass over the sea, have replenished. 3 And by great waters the seed of Sihor, the harvest of the river, is her revenue; and she is a mart of nations. 4 Be thou ashamed, O Zidon: for the sea hath spoken, even the strength of the sea, saying, I travail not, nor bring forth children, neither do I nourish up young men, nor bring up virgins.
• Isa 23:12 : 12 And he said, Thou shalt no more rejoice, O thou oppressed virgin, daughter of Zidon: arise, pass over to Chittim; there also shalt thou have no rest.