By your bloodבְּדָמֵךְthatאֲשֶׁרyou have shedשָׁפַכְתְּyou have become guilty,אָשַׁמְתְּand by your idolsוּבְגִלּוּלַיִךְthatאֲשֶׁרyou have madeעָשִׂיתyou have become unclean;טָמֵאתand you have brought nearוַתַּקְרִיבִיyour daysיָמַיִךְand you have comeוַתָּבוֹאto your years.עַד שְׁנוֹתָיִךְThereforeעַל כֵּןI have made youנְתַתִּיךְa reproachחֶרְפָּהto the nationsלַגּוֹיִםand a mockeryוְקַלָּסָהto allלְכָלthe lands.הָאֲרָצוֹת
Ezekiel 22:4
Study it in the app“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.”
With the Hebrew beneath
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.
Where else “takrivi” appears- 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.