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Orאוֹif I bringאָבִיאa swordחֶרֶבupon thatעַל הָ הַהִיאlandאָרֶץand say,וְאָמַרְתִּי‘Sword,חֶרֶבpass throughתַּעֲבֹרthe land,’בָּאָרֶץand cut offוְהִכְרַתִּיfrom itמִמֶּנָּהhuman beingאָדָםand beast,וּבְהֵמָה
Ezekiel 14:17
Study it in the app“Or if I bring a sword upon that land and say, ‘Sword, pass through the land,’ and cut off from it human being and beast,”
With the Hebrew beneath
Ezekiel 14:17, word by word
- if I bringאָבִיאavi
bring
To bring something or someone.
Where else “avi” appears- a swordחֶרֶבcherev
sword
A sword; or war.
Where else “cherev” appears- landאָרֶץarets
land
A region or nation, above all Israel's.
Where else “arets” appears- and sayאָמַרְתִּיamarti
say
To say with the mouth to someone what one thinks or wants, or to answer him.
Where else “amarti” appears- pass throughתַּעֲבֹרtaavor
pass
To get over a river, or go through a land.
Where else “taavor” appears- and cut offהִכְרַתִּיhichrati
cut off
To wipe out, or be shut out from the people.
Where else “hichrati” appears- human beingאָדָםadam
human being
All humankind, men and women, as creatures God formed.
Where else “adam” appears- and beastבְהֵמָהvehema
beast
Animals in general.
Where else “vehema” appears
The context
16even if these three men were in its midst, as I live, declares Adonai YHWH, neither sons nor daughters would they deliver; they alone would be delivered, and the land would be a desolation.
17 · This verse (above)
18and these three men were in its midst, as I live, declares Adonai YHWH, they would not deliver sons or daughters, but they alone would be delivered.