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And the wordוַ דְבַרof YHWHיְהוָהcameיְהִיto me,אֵלַיsaying,לֵאמֹר
Ezekiel 14:12
Study it in the app“And the word of YHWH came to me, saying,”
With the Hebrew beneath
Ezekiel 14:12, word by word
- And the wordדְבַרdevar
word
What someone says or announces, above all what YHWH says.
Where else “devar” appears- of YHWHיְהוָהyehva
YHWH
The personal name of the God of Israel, written in Hebrew with four letters, Y-H-W-H, without vowels. Out of reverence Jews stopped pronouncing it and read "Adonai" (Lord), so many Bibles put "the LORD" or "Jehovah". This translation keeps the four letters. The name is related to the verb "to be" (Exodus 3:14-15). He is not a god other than Elohim: "YHWH Elohim" is the same Creator God, called by his name.
Where else “yehva” appears- cameיְהִיyehi
become
To turn into something new, or fall upon someone.
Where else “yehi” appears- sayingאמֹרmor
say
To say with the mouth to someone what one thinks or wants, or to answer him.
Where else “mor” appears
The context
11so that the house of Israel will no longer go astray from following me and no longer defile themselves with all their transgressions, but they will be my people, and I will be their Elohim, declares Adonai YHWH.’”
12 · This verse (above)
13“Son of man, a land, when it sins against me by committing a breach of faith, and I stretch out my hand against it and break its staff of bread and send famine into it and cut off from it human being and beast,