Ezekiel 24:8

“To bring up fury, to take vengeance, I have put her blood on the bare rock, so that it may not be covered.”

Ezekiel 24:8 · direct translation from the Hebrew
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Ezekiel 24:8, word by word

To bring upהַעֲלוֹתhaalot

bring up

To make someone go up: "I led you up from Egypt".

Where else “haalot” appears
furyחֵמָהchema

fury

Literally "heat": burning anger, of a person or of YHWH.

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to takeנְקֹםnekom

avenge

Avenge: make someone pay for the wrong done; take vengeance.

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vengeanceנָקָםnakam

vengeance

Vengeance: the punishment that does justice for an offense.

Where else “nakam” appears
I have putנָתַתִּיnatati

put

To place something somewhere.

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her bloodדָּמָdama

bloodguilt

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

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on the bare rockצְחִיחַtsechiach

bare, exposed place

A bare, open place, exposed to the sun.

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on the bare rockסָלַעsala

crag

A great mountain stone, a place of refuge.

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be coveredהִכָּסוֹתhikasot

cover

To put something over a thing so that it can no longer be seen.

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The context

7For her blood is in her midst; on the bare rock she put it; she did not pour it out on the ground to cover it with dust.

8 · This verse (above)

9Therefore thus says Adonai YHWH: Woe to the city of bloodshed! I too will make great the pyre.

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