Ezekiel 14:5

KJV1611 – Modern English

That I may seize the house of Israel in their own hearts because they are all estranged from me through their idols.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

לְמַ֛עַן תְּפֹ֥שׂ אֶת־בֵּֽית־יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל בְּלִבָּ֑ם אֲשֶׁ֤ר נָזֹ֙רוּ֙ מֵֽעָלַ֔י בְּגִלּֽוּלֵיהֶ֖ם כֻּלָּֽם׃ ס

Transliteration

In-order-that təp̄ōś ʾeṯ-bêṯ-yiśrāʾēl in-libbām who nāzōrû from-me through-gillûlêhem all-of-them.

Grammar Details

• *təp̄ōś*: qal infinitive construct - to catch/seize/take hold
• *ʾeṯ*: direct object marker
• *bêṯ*-*yiśrāʾēl*: construct chain - house of Israel
• *libbām*: masculine singular + 3rd masculine plural suffix - their heart
• *nāzōrû*: niphal perfect, 3rd common plural - they are estranged/alienated
• *gillûlêhem*: masculine plural + 3rd masculine plural suffix - their idols
• כֻּלָּֽם: masculine plural + 3rd masculine plural suffix - all of them
• ס: paragraph marker

Word Meanings

• *təp̄ōś*: seize/capture/grasp/take hold of
• *nāzōrû*: have become estranged/are alienated/have turned away
• *gillûlêhem*: idols/images/abominations

Other Translations

• Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

  So that I may seize the house of Israel by their hearts, because they have all turned away from me through their idols.

• King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

  That I may take the house of Israel in their own heart, because they are all estranged from me through their idols.

• American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

  that I may take{H8610} the house{H1004} of Israel{H3478} in their own heart,{H3820} because they are all estranged{H2114} from me through their idols.{H1544}

• King James Version with Strong's Numbers

  That I may take{H8610}{(H8800)} the house{H1004} of Israel{H3478} in their own heart{H3820}, because they are all estranged{H2114}{(H8738)} from me through their idols{H1544}.

• Coverdale Bible (1535)

  that the house of Israel maye be snared in their owne hertes, because they be clene gone fro me, for their Idols sakes.

• Geneva Bible (1560)

  That I may take the house of Israel in their owne heart, because they are all departed from me through their idoles.

• Bishops' Bible (1568)

  That the house of Israel may be snared in their owne heartes, because they be cleane gone from me all of them thorowe their idols.

• Authorized King James Version (1611)

  That I may take the house of Israel in their own heart, because they are all estranged from me through their idols.

• Webster's Bible (1833)

  that I may take the house of Israel in their own heart, because they are all estranged from me through their idols.

• Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

  in order to catch the house of Israel by their heart, in that they have become estranged from off me by their idols -- all of them.

• American Standard Version (1901)

  that I may take the house of Israel in their own heart, because they are all estranged from me through their idols.

• American Standard Version (1901)

  that I may take the house of Israel in their own heart, because they are all estranged from me through their idols.

• Bible in Basic English (1941)

  So as to take the children of Israel in the thoughts of their hearts, because they have become strange to me through their false gods.

• World English Bible (2000)

  that I may take the house of Israel in their own heart, because they are all estranged from me through their idols.

• NET Bible® (New English Translation)

  I will do this in order to capture the hearts of the house of Israel, who have alienated themselves from me on account of all their idols.’

Referenced Verses

• Zech 11:8 : 8 I also cut off three shepherds in one month. My soul loathed them, and their soul also abhorred me.
• Isa 1:4 : 4 Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, children who are corrupters: they have forsaken the LORD, they have provoked the Holy One of Israel to anger, they have gone away backward.
• Jer 2:5 : 5 Thus says the LORD, What wrong have your fathers found in me, that they have gone far from me, and have followed idols, and have become idolaters?
• Jer 2:11-13 : 11 Has a nation changed their gods, which are not gods? but my people have changed their glory for that which does not profit. 12 Be astonished, O heavens, at this, and be horribly afraid, be very desolate, says the LORD. 13 For my people have committed two evils; they have forsaken me, the fountain of living waters, and carved themselves cisterns, broken cisterns that can hold no water.
• Jer 2:31-32 : 31 O generation, behold the word of the LORD. Have I been a wilderness to Israel? a land of darkness? why do my people say, We are lords; we will come no more to you? 32 Can a maid forget her ornaments, or a bride her attire? yet my people have forgotten me days without number.
• Ezek 14:9-9 : 9 And if the prophet is deceived when he has spoken a thing, I the LORD have deceived that prophet, and I will stretch out my hand upon him and will destroy him from the midst of my people Israel. 10 And they shall bear the punishment of their iniquity: the punishment of the prophet shall be even as the punishment of him who seeks unto him;
• Hos 10:2 : 2 Their heart is divided; now they shall be found guilty: he shall break down their altars, he shall ruin their images.
• Zech 7:11-14 : 11 But they refused to heed, and shrugged their shoulders, and stopped their ears, so they should not hear. 12 Yes, they made their hearts like an adamant stone, lest they should hear the law, and the words which the LORD of hosts sent in His Spirit by the former prophets: therefore, great wrath came from the LORD of hosts. 13 Therefore it has come to pass, that just as He called and they would not hear, so they called, and I would not hear, says the LORD of hosts: 14 But I scattered them with a whirlwind among all the nations they had not known. Thus the land became desolate after them, so that no man passed through nor returned: for they made the pleasant land desolate.
• Deut 32:15-16 : 15 But Jeshurun grew fat, and kicked: you have grown fat, you have grown thick, you are covered with fatness; then he forsook God who made him, and lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation. 16 They provoked him to jealousy with foreign gods, with abominations they provoked him to anger.
• Rom 1:21-23 : 21 Because, although they knew God, they did not glorify Him as God, nor were thankful, but became futile in their thoughts, and their foolish hearts were darkened. 22 Professing to be wise, they became fools, 23 And changed the glory of the incorruptible God into an image made like corruptible man, and to birds and four-footed beasts and creeping things.
• Rom 1:28 : 28 And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a debased mind, to do those things which are not fitting;
• Rom 1:30 : 30 Backbiters, haters of God, violent, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,
• Rom 8:7 : 7 Because the carnal mind is enmity against God, for it is not subject to the law of God, nor indeed can be.
• Gal 6:7 : 7 Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatever a man sows, that shall he also reap.
• Eph 4:18 : 18 Having their understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart;
• Col 1:21 : 21 And you, who were once alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now he has reconciled
• 2 Thess 2:9-9 : 9 Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders, 10 And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they did not receive the love of the truth, that they might be saved. 11 And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie:
• Heb 3:12 : 12 Beware, brothers and sisters, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God.