Study it in the app“and I defiled them through their gifts, in their making pass every firstborn of the womb, so that I might devastate them, so that they might know that I am YHWH.’”
and I defiledוָאֲטַמֵּאthemאוֹתָםthrough their gifts,בְּמַתְּנוֹתָםin their making passבְּהַעֲבִירeveryכָּלfirstbornפֶּטֶרof the womb,רָחַםso thatלְמַעַןI might devastate them,אֲשִׁמֵּםso thatלְמַעַן אֲשֶׁרthey might knowיֵדְעוּthatאֲשֶׁרI amאֲנִיYHWH.’יְהוָה
defile
To make someone or something unclean.
Where else “atame” appearsgift
Gift, present.
Where else “matnota” appearspass
To get over a river, or go through a land.
Where else “haavir” appearsfirst offspring
"What opens the womb": the first child or the first young born to a mother.
Where else “peter” appearswomb
The part of a mother's body where the child grows before birth.
Where else “racham” appearsbe desolate
To be left empty and ruined, or make it so.
Where else “ashime” appearsacknowledge
To acknowledge YHWH: admit that he is God.
Where else “yedu” appearsYHWH
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” appears25And I also gave them statutes that were not good and rules by which they could not live,
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27Therefore speak to the house of Israel, son of man, and say to them, ‘Thus says Adonai YHWH: In this also your fathers reviled me, in committing a breach of faith against me.
