Ezekiel 22:4

“By your blood that you have shed you have become guilty, and by your idols that you have made you have become unclean; and you have brought near your days and you have come to your years. Therefore I have made you a reproach to the nations and a mockery to all the lands.”

Ezekiel 22:4 · direct translation from the Hebrew
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Ezekiel 22:4, word by word

By your bloodדָמֵdame

bloodguilt

A murder, and the guilt it leaves on the killer.

Where else “dame” appears
you have shedשָׁפַכְתְּshafacht

spill

To empty out water or blood; "spill blood" is to kill.

Where else “shafacht” appears
you have become guiltyאָשַׁמְתְּashamt

be guilty

Be guilty; bear the guilt of something, and so suffer its punishment.

Where else “ashamt” appears
and by your idolsגִלּוּלַיִgilulayi

idols

Idols; a scornful word that calls them logs or worthless things.

Where else “gilulayi” appears
you have madeעָשִׂיתasit

make

To build or create something.

Where else “asit” appears
you have become uncleanטָמֵאתtamet

be unclean

To become unclean, for example by touching the dead.

Where else “tamet” appears
and you have brought nearתַּקְרִיבִיtakrivi

bring near

To bring something, or offer a gift to YHWH.

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your daysיָמַיִyamayi

time

Literally "the days": a period, an age, or the span of someone's life.

Where else “yamayi” appears
and you have comeתָּבוֹאtavo

come

To come, arrive: "days are coming".

Where else “tavo” appears
to your yearsשְׁנוֹתָיִshenotayi

year

Each full turn of the seasons, by which time is counted.

Where else “shenotayi” appears
I have made youנְתַתִּיnetati

make

To make someone something: "I have made you a father".

Where else “netati” appears
a reproachחֶרְפָּהcherpa

disgrace, reproach

Disgrace, reproach, scorn from others. Being childless was then felt as a humiliation.

Where else “cherpa” appears
to the nationsגּוֹיִםgoyim

Gentiles

The peoples other than Israel.

Where else “goyim” appears
and a mockeryקַלָּסָהkalasa

mockery

Mockery, scorn.

Where else “kalasa” appears
the landsאֲרָצוֹתaratsot

land

A region or nation, above all Israel's.

Where else “aratsot” appears

The context

3and say: ‘Thus says Adonai YHWH: A city that sheds blood in her midst, so that her time may come, and that makes idols against herself to become unclean!

4 · This verse (above)

5Those near and those far from you will mock you, unclean of name, full of confusion.

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