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I alsoגַּם אֲנִיraisedנָשָׂאתִיmy handאֶת יָדִיto themלָהֶםin the wildernessבַּמִּדְבָּרthat I would scatterלְהָפִיץthemאֹתָםamong the nationsבַּגּוֹיִםand disperseוּלְזָרוֹתthemאוֹתָםthrough the lands,בָּאֲרָצוֹת
Ezekiel 20:23
Study it in the app“I also raised my hand to them in the wilderness that I would scatter them among the nations and disperse them through the lands,”
With the Hebrew beneath
Ezekiel 20:23, word by word
- raisedנָשָׂאתִיnasati
lift up
To direct the eyes upward, make the voice loud, or put up the hand.
Where else “nasati” appears- my handיָדִyadi
hand
The part of the body with which one takes, gives and works; also what one does.
Where else “yadi” appears- in the wildernessמִּדְבָּרmidbar
wilderness
Dry, unfarmed land where flocks graze.
Where else “midbar” appears- that I would scatterהָפִיץhafits
scatter
To scatter people over many places, as a punishment.
Where else “hafits” appears- among the nationsגּוֹיִםgoyim
Gentiles
The peoples other than Israel.
Where else “goyim” appears- and disperseזָרוֹתzarot
scatter
To strew people or things about.
Where else “zarot” appears- through the landsאֲרָצוֹתaratsot
land
A region or nation, above all Israel's.
Where else “aratsot” appears
The context
22But I withdrew my hand and acted for the sake of my name, that it should not be profaned in the eyes of the nations in whose eyes I had brought them out.
23 · This verse (above)
24because my rules they had not done, and my statutes they had rejected, and my Sabbaths they had profaned, and after the idols of their fathers were their eyes.