then I will bring you downוְהוֹרַדְתִּיךְwith those who go downאֶת יוֹרְדֵיto the pit,בוֹרto the peopleאֶל עַםof old,עוֹלָםand I will make you dwellוְהוֹשַׁבְתִּיךְin the landבְּאֶרֶץof the depths,תַּחְתִּיּוֹתlike the ruinsכָּחֳרָבוֹתof old,מֵעוֹלָםwith those who go downאֶת יוֹרְדֵיto the pit,בוֹרso that you will notלְמַעַן לֹאbe inhabited;תֵשֵׁבִיand I will setוְנָתַתִּיa jewelצְבִיin the landבְּאֶרֶץof the living.חַיִּים
Ezekiel 26:20
Study it in the app“then I will bring you down with those who go down to the pit, to the people of old, and I will make you dwell in the land of the depths, like the ruins of old, with those who go down to the pit, so that you will not be inhabited; and I will set a jewel in the land of the living.”
With the Hebrew beneath
Ezekiel 26:20, word by word
- then I will bring you downהוֹרַדְתִּיhoradti
bring down
To bring something or someone to a lower place.
Where else “horadti” appears- to the pitבוֹרvor
grave
The place where the dead go down; the grave.
Where else “vor” appears- to the peopleעַםam
crowd
The people gathered in a place: the crowd, or the troops that go out to war.
Where else “am” appears- of oldעוֹלָםolam
of old
The times of the forefathers, far back in the past.
Where else “olam” appears- and I will make you dwellהוֹשַׁבְתִּיhoshavti
dwell
To make one's home in a place.
Where else “hoshavti” appears- in the landאֶרֶץerets
land
A region or nation, above all Israel's.
Where else “erets” appears- of the depthsתַּחְתִּיּוֹתtachtiyot
lowest
Lowest, the lower level; the depths.
Where else “tachtiyot” appears- like the ruinsחֳרָבוֹתchoravot
ruin, desolate place
A ruin, a destroyed and deserted place.
Where else “choravot” appears- and I will setנָתַתִּיnatati
put
To place something somewhere.
Where else “natati” appears- a jewelצְבִיtsevi
splendor
What gives splendor: "the glorious land".
Where else “tsevi” appears- of the livingחַיִּיםchayim
alive
Having life, not dead.
Where else “chayim” appears
Translation note
“And I will set a jewel”: the Hebrew is brief and difficult.
The context
19For thus says Adonai YHWH: When I make you a ruined city, like the cities that are not inhabited, when I bring up over you the deep and the many waters cover you,
20 · This verse (above)
21Dreads I will make you, and you will be no more; and you will be sought but you will not be found again forever, declares Adonai YHWH.”