Ezekiel 39:18

World English Bible (2000)

You shall eat the flesh of the mighty, and drink the blood of the princes of the earth, of rams, of lambs, and of goats, of bulls, all of them fatlings of Bashan.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

בְּשַׂ֤ר גִּבּוֹרִים֙ תֹּאכֵ֔לוּ וְדַם־נְשִׂיאֵ֥י הָאָ֖רֶץ תִּשְׁתּ֑וּ אֵילִ֨ים כָּרִ֤ים וְעַתּוּדִים֙ פָּרִ֔ים מְרִיאֵ֥י בָשָׁ֖ן כֻּלָּֽם

Transliteration

bəśar of gibbôrîm you shall tōʾkēlû, and dam of nəśîʾê of the ʾāreṣ you shall tištû: ʾêlîm, kārîm, and ʿattûdîm, pārîm, mərîʾê of bāšān all of them

Grammar Details

• *bəśar*: noun, masculine singular construct - flesh of
• *gibbôrîm*: adjective, masculine plural - mighty ones/warriors
• *tōʾkēlû*: qal imperfect, 2nd masculine plural - you will eat
• *dam*: noun, masculine singular construct - blood of
• *nəśîʾê*: noun, masculine plural construct - princes/chiefs of
• *ʾāreṣ*: noun, feminine singular with definite article - the land/earth
• *tištû*: qal imperfect, 2nd masculine plural - you will drink
• *ʾêlîm*: noun, masculine plural - rams
• *kārîm*: noun, masculine plural - young rams/lambs
• *ʿattûdîm*: noun, masculine plural - male goats/he-goats
• *pārîm*: noun, masculine plural - bulls/young bulls
• *mərîʾê*: noun, masculine plural construct - fatlings of
• *bāšān*: proper noun - Bashan

Word Meanings

• *gibbôrîm*: mighty ones/warriors/heroes
• *nəśîʾê*: princes/chiefs/rulers/leaders
• *mərîʾê*: fatlings/fattened animals

Referenced Verses

• Ps 22:12 : 12 Many bulls have surrounded me. Strong bulls of Bashan have encircled me.
• Jer 51:40 : 40 I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams with male goats.
• Ezek 29:5 : 5 I'll cast you forth into the wilderness, you and all the fish of your rivers. You'll fall on the open field. You won't be brought together, nor gathered. I have given you for food to the animals of the earth and to the birds of the sky.
• Jer 50:27 : 27 Kill all her bulls; let them go down to the slaughter: woe to them! for their day is come, the time of their visitation.
• Amos 4:1 : 1 Listen to this word, you cows of Bashan, who are on the mountain of Samaria, who oppress the poor, who crush the needy, who tell their husbands, "Bring us drinks!"
• Rev 19:17-18 : 17 I saw an angel standing in the sun. He cried with a loud voice, saying to all the birds that fly in the sky, "Come! Be gathered together to the great supper of God, 18 that you may eat the flesh of kings, the flesh of captains, the flesh of mighty men, and the flesh of horses and of those who sit on them, and the flesh of all men, both free and slave, and small and great."
• Rev 19:21 : 21 The rest were killed with the sword of him who sat on the horse, the sword which came forth out of his mouth. All the birds were filled with their flesh.
• Deut 32:14 : 14 Butter of the herd, and milk of the flock, with fat of lambs, rams of the breed of Bashan, and goats, with the finest of the wheat. Of the blood of the grape you drank wine.
• Ezek 34:8 : 8 As I live, says the Lord Yahweh, surely because my sheep became a prey, and my sheep became food to all the animals of the field, because there was no shepherd, neither did my shepherds search for my sheep, but the shepherds fed themselves, and didn't feed my sheep;
• Ezek 34:17 : 17 As for you, O my flock, thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I judge between sheep and sheep, the rams and the male goats.
• Ps 68:30 : 30 Rebuke the wild animal of the reeds, the multitude of the bulls, with the calves of the peoples. Being humbled, may it bring bars of silver. Scatter the nations that delight in war.
• Isa 34:7 : 7 The wild oxen will come down with them, and the young bulls with the mighty bulls; and their land will be drunken with blood, and their dust made greasy with fat.
• Jer 50:11 : 11 Because you are glad, because you rejoice, O you who plunder my heritage, because you are wanton as a heifer that treads out [the grain], and neigh as strong horses;