Ezekiel 3:11

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

And go, get thee to them of the captivity, unto the children of thy people, and speak unto them, and tell them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; whether they will hear, or whether they will forbear.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וְלֵ֨ךְ בֹּ֤א אֶל־הַגּוֹלָה֙ אֶל־בְּנֵ֣י עַמֶּ֔ךָ וְדִבַּרְתָּ֤ אֲלֵיהֶם֙ וְאָמַרְתָּ֣ אֲלֵיהֶ֔ם כֹּ֥ה אָמַ֖ר אֲדֹנָ֣י יְהֹוִ֑ה אִֽם־יִשְׁמְע֖וּ וְאִם־יֶחְדָּֽלוּ׃

Transliteration

And welēḵ bōʾ to haggôlāh, to benê your ʿammeḵā, and wedibbartā to them ʾălêhem and weʾāmartā to them ʾălêhem, "Thus kōh ʾāmar ʾăḏōnāy yehōwih" whether ʾim-they yišmeʿû or whether weʾim-they yeḥdālû.

Grammar Details

• *welēḵ*: conjunction + Qal imperative, masculine singular - and go
• *bōʾ*: Qal imperative, masculine singular - come
• *haggôlāh*: definite article + feminine singular noun - the exile/captivity
• *benê*: masculine plural construct - sons of
• *ʿammeḵā*: masculine singular noun with 2nd person masculine singular suffix - your people
• *wedibbartā*: conjunction + Piel perfect, 2nd masculine singular - and you shall speak
• *ʾălêhem*: preposition with 3rd person masculine plural suffix - to them
• *weʾāmartā*: conjunction + Qal perfect, 2nd masculine singular - and you shall say
• *kōh*: adverb - thus/so
• *ʾāmar*: Qal perfect, 3rd masculine singular - has said
• *ʾăḏōnāy*: noun with 1st person plural suffix - my Lord
• *yehōwih*: proper noun - LORD
• *ʾim*: conditional particle - if/whether
• *yišmeʿû*: Qal imperfect, 3rd masculine plural - they hear
• *weʾim*: conjunction + conditional particle - and if/whether
• *yeḥdālû*: Qal imperfect, 3rd masculine plural - they forbear/cease

Word Meanings

• *welēḵ*: and go/proceed/depart
• *bōʾ*: come/enter/approach
• *haggôlāh*: the exile/captivity/diaspora
• *benê*: sons/descendants/children of
• *ʿammeḵā*: your people/nation/folk
• *wedibbartā*: and you shall speak/talk/declare
• *weʾāmartā*: and you shall say/tell/command
• *ʾăḏōnāy*: my Lord/master/sovereign
• *yišmeʿû*: they hear/listen/obey
• *yeḥdālû*: they forbear/cease/refrain

Referenced Verses

• Ezek 2:7 : 7 And thou shalt speak my words unto them, whether they will hear, or whether they will forbear: for they are most rebellious.
• Ezek 3:27 : 27 But when I speak with thee, I will open thy mouth, and thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; He that heareth, let him hear; and he that forbeareth, let him forbear: for they are a rebellious house.
• Ezek 2:5 : 5 And they, whether they will hear, or whether they will forbear,(for they are a rebellious house,) yet shall know that there hath been a prophet among them.
• Ezek 33:2 : 2 Son of man, speak to the children of thy people, and say unto them, When I bring the sword upon a land, if the people of the land take a man of their coasts, and set him for their watchman:
• Ezek 33:12 : 12 Therefore, thou son of man, say unto the children of thy people, The righteousness of the righteous shall not deliver him in the day of his transgression: as for the wickedness of the wicked, he shall not fall thereby in the day that he turneth from his wickedness; neither shall the righteous be able to live for his righteousness in the day that he sinneth.
• Ezek 33:17 : 17 Yet the children of thy people say, The way of the Lord is not equal: but as for them, their way is not equal.
• Ezek 33:30 : 30 Also, thou son of man, the children of thy people still are talking against thee by the walls and in the doors of the houses, and speak one to another, every one to his brother, saying, Come, I pray you, and hear what is the word that cometh forth from the LORD.
• Ezek 37:18 : 18 And when the children of thy people shall speak unto thee, saying, Wilt thou not shew us what thou meanest by these?
• Dan 6:13 : 13 Then answered they and said before the king, That Daniel, which is of the children of the captivity of Judah, regardeth not thee, O king, nor the decree that thou hast signed, but maketh his petition three times a day.
• Dan 12:1 : 1 And at that time shall Michael stand up, the great prince which standeth for the children of thy people: and there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation even to that same time: and at that time thy people shall be delivered, every one that shall be found written in the book.
• Acts 20:26-27 : 26 Wherefore I take you to record this day, that I am pure from the blood of all men. 27 For I have not shunned to declare unto you all the counsel of God.
• Ezek 11:24-25 : 24 Afterwards the spirit took me up, and brought me in a vision by the Spirit of God into Chaldea, to them of the captivity. So the vision that I had seen went up from me. 25 Then I spake unto them of the captivity all the things that the LORD had shewed me.
• Ezek 3:15 : 15 Then I came to them of the captivity at Telabib, that dwelt by the river of Chebar, and I sat where they sat, and remained there astonished among them seven days.
• Exod 32:7 : 7 And the LORD said unto Moses, Go, get thee down; for thy people, which thou broughtest out of the land of Egypt, have corrupted themselves:
• Deut 9:12 : 12 And the LORD said unto me, Arise, get thee down quickly from hence; for thy people which thou hast brought forth out of Egypt have corrupted themselves; they are quickly turned aside out of the way which I commanded them; they have made them a molten image.