Ezekiel 18:14

World English Bible (2000)

Now, behold, if he fathers a son, who sees all his father's sins, which he has done, and fears, and does not such like;

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וְהִנֵּה֙ הוֹלִ֣יד בֵּ֔ן וַיַּ֕רְא אֶת־כָּל־חַטֹּ֥את אָבִ֖יו אֲשֶׁ֣ר עָשָׂ֑ה וַיִּרְאֶ֕ה וְלֹ֥א יַעֲשֶׂ֖ה כָּהֵֽן׃

Transliteration

wə- hinnēh hôlîd bēn wa- yarʾ ʾet-kol-ḥaṭṭōʾt ʾābîw ʾăšer ʿāśāh wa- yirʾeh wə- lōʾ yaʿăśeh kāhēn

Grammar Details

• *wə-*: conjunction - and
• *hinnēh*: interjection - behold
• *hôlîd*: Hiphil perfect 3rd masculine singular - he has begotten
• *bēn*: masculine singular noun - son
• *wa-*: conjunction - and
• *yarʾ*: Qal imperfect 3rd masculine singular with waw consecutive - and he saw
• *ʾet*: direct object marker
• *kol*: construct state, masculine singular - all of
• *ḥaṭṭōʾt*: feminine plural noun, construct state - sins of
• *ʾābîw*: masculine singular noun with 3rd masculine singular suffix - his father
• *ʾăšer*: relative pronoun - which, that
• *ʿāśāh*: Qal perfect 3rd masculine singular - he did
• *yirʾeh*: Qal imperfect 3rd masculine singular with waw consecutive - and he sees/fears
• *lōʾ*: negative particle - not
• *yaʿăśeh*: Qal imperfect 3rd masculine singular - he will do
• *kāhēn*: preposition with 3rd feminine plural suffix - like them

Word Meanings

• *yarʾ*: saw/observed/noticed
• *yirʾeh*: sees/fears/considers (possibly repetition for emphasis, or different nuance)
• *kāhēn*: like them/similarly/in the same way

Referenced Verses

• 2 Chr 34:21 : 21 "Go inquire of Yahweh for me, and for those who are left in Israel and in Judah, concerning the words of the book that is found; for great is the wrath of Yahweh that is poured out on us, because our fathers have not kept the word of Yahweh, to do according to all that is written in this book."
• Prov 23:24 : 24 The father of the righteous has great joy. Whoever fathers a wise child delights in him.
• Isa 44:19 : 19 No one thinks, neither is there knowledge nor understanding to say, "I have burned part of it in the fire. Yes, I have also baked bread on its coals. I have roasted meat and eaten it. Shall I make the rest of it into an abomination? Shall I bow down to a tree trunk?"
• Jer 8:6 : 6 I listened and heard, but they didn't speak aright: no man repents him of his wickedness, saying, What have I done? everyone turns to his course, as a horse that rushes headlong in the battle.
• Jer 9:14 : 14 but have walked after the stubbornness of their own heart, and after the Baals, which their fathers taught them;
• Jer 44:17 : 17 But we will certainly perform every word that is gone forth out of our mouth, to burn incense to the queen of the sky, and to pour out drink offerings to her, as we have done, we and our fathers, our kings and our princes, in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem; for then had we plenty of food, and were well, and saw no evil.
• Ezek 18:10 : 10 If he fathers a son who is a robber, a shedder of blood, and who does any one of these things,
• Ezek 18:28 : 28 Because he considers, and turns away from all his transgressions that he has committed, he shall surely live, he shall not die.
• Ezek 20:18 : 18 I said to their children in the wilderness, Don't walk in the statutes of your fathers, neither observe their ordinances, nor defile yourselves with their idols.
• Hos 7:2 : 2 They don't consider in their hearts that I remember all their wickedness. Now their own deeds have engulfed them. They are before my face.
• Hag 1:5 : 5 Now therefore this is what Yahweh of Armies says: Consider your ways.
• Hag 1:7 : 7 This is what Yahweh of Armies says: "Consider your ways.
• Hag 2:18 : 18 'Consider, please, from this day and backward, from the twenty-fourth day of the ninth month, since the day that the foundation of Yahweh's temple was laid, consider it.
• Matt 23:32 : 32 Fill up, then, the measure of your fathers.
• Luke 15:17-19 : 17 But when he came to himself he said, 'How many hired servants of my father's have bread enough to spare, and I'm dying with hunger! 18 I will get up and go to my father, and will tell him, "Father, I have sinned against heaven, and in your sight. 19 I am no more worthy to be called your son. Make me as one of your hired servants."'
• 1 Pet 1:18 : 18 knowing that you were redeemed, not with corruptible things, with silver or gold, from the useless way of life handed down from your fathers,
• Ps 119:59-60 : 59 I considered my ways, and turned my steps to your statutes. 60 I will hurry, and not delay, to obey your commandments.
• Prov 17:21 : 21 He who becomes the father of a fool grieves. The father of a fool has no joy.
• 2 Chr 29:3-9 : 3 He in the first year of his reign, in the first month, opened the doors of the house of Yahweh, and repaired them. 4 He brought in the priests and the Levites, and gathered them together into the broad place on the east, 5 and said to them, "Listen to me, you Levites! Now sanctify yourselves, and sanctify the house of Yahweh, the God of your fathers, and carry out the filthiness out of the holy place. 6 For our fathers have trespassed, and done that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh our God, and have forsaken him, and have turned away their faces from the habitation of Yahweh, and turned their backs. 7 Also they have shut up the doors of the porch, and put out the lamps, and have not burned incense nor offered burnt offerings in the holy place to the God of Israel. 8 Therefore the wrath of Yahweh was on Judah and Jerusalem, and he has delivered them to be tossed back and forth, to be an astonishment, and a hissing, as you see with your eyes. 9 For, behold, our fathers have fallen by the sword, and our sons and our daughters and our wives are in captivity for this. 10 Now it is in my heart to make a covenant with Yahweh, the God of Israel, that his fierce anger may turn away from us. 11 My sons, don't be negligent now; for Yahweh has chosen you to stand before him, to minister to him, and that you should be his ministers, and burn incense."