And your sisters,וַאֲחוֹתַיִךְSodomסְדֹםand her daughters,וּבְנוֹתֶיהָwill returnתָּשֹׁבְןָto their former state,לְקַדְמָתָןand Samariaוְשֹׁמְרוֹןand her daughtersוּבְנוֹתֶיהָwill returnתָּשֹׁבְןָto their former state,לְקַדְמָתָןand youוְאַתְּand your daughtersוּבְנוֹתַיִךְwill returnתְּשֻׁבֶינָהto your former state.לְקַדְמַתְכֶן
Ezekiel 16:55
Study it in the app“And your sisters, Sodom and her daughters, will return to their former state, and Samaria and her daughters will return to their former state, and you and your daughters will return to your former state.”
With the Hebrew beneath
Ezekiel 16:55, word by word
- And your sistersאֲחוֹתַיִachotayi
sister
A woman who has the same parents as another person, or belongs to their family.
Where else “achotayi” appears- Sodomסְדֹםsedom
Sodom
See it on the mapWhere else “sedom” appears- and her daughtersבְנוֹתֶיvenote
daughter
A girl or woman born of her parents, who belongs to her father's house.
Where else “venote” appears- will returnתָּשֹׁבְןָtashovna
return
To go back to a place.
Where else “tashovna” appears- to their former stateקַדְמָתָkadmata
former state
Before, first in time; also the former state of something.
Where else “kadmata” appears- and Samariaשֹׁמְרוֹןshomron
Samaria
See it on the mapWhere else “shomron” appears
Places in this verse
1Sodom ?
Today: disputed; perhaps south or northeast of the Dead Sea
A city of the Jordan plain; its site is not known for certain, perhaps near the Dead Sea.
Its people were very wicked (Gen 13:13). God destroyed it with fire, and saved Lot (Gen 19:24-25).
2Samaria
Today: northern West Bank (Sebastia, Samaria hills)
A city and region in central Israel, between Judea and Galilee.
Omri founded the city as capital of the northern kingdom (1 Kgs 16:24); the Assyrians conquered it (2 Kgs 17:6). Jesus passed through the region, and Philip preached there (John 4:4; Acts 8:5).
The context
54so that you may bear your disgrace and be ashamed of all that you have done, when you become a comfort to them.
55 · This verse (above)
56And was not Sodom your sister a report in your mouth in the day of your pride,