And I will putוְנָתַתִּיhooksחַחִיםin your jaws,בִּלְחָיֶיךָand I will makeוְהִדְבַּקְתִּיthe fishדְגַתof your channelsיְאֹרֶיךָstickהִדְבַּקְתִּיto your scales;בְּקַשְׂקְשֹׂתֶיךָand I will bring you upוְהַעֲלִיתִיךָfrom the midstמִתּוֹךְof your channels,יְאֹרֶיךָand allוְ כָּלthe fishדְּגַתof your channelsיְאֹרֶיךָwill stickתִּדְבָּקto your scales.בְּקַשְׂקְשֹׂתֶיךָ
Ezekiel 29:4
Study it in the app“And I will put hooks in your jaws, and I will make the fish of your channels stick to your scales; and I will bring you up from the midst of your channels, and all the fish of your channels will stick to your scales.”
With the Hebrew beneath
Ezekiel 29:4, word by word
- And I will putנָתַתִּיnatati
put
To place something somewhere.
Where else “natati” appears- hooksחַחִיםchachim
hook, ring
Ring or brooch; ring for the nose; hook.
Where else “chachim” appears- in your jawsלְחָיֶיlechaye
jawbone
The jawbone of an animal, with its teeth.
Where else “lechaye” appears- and I will makeהִדְבַּקְתִּיhidbakti
cling
To stay close to someone, like YHWH.
Where else “hidbakti” appears- the fishדְגַתdegat
fish
Fish; everything that lives in the water (a collective word).
Where else “degat” appears- of your channelsיְאֹרֶיyeore
Nile
See it on the mapWhere else “yeore” appears- to your scalesקַשְׂקְשֹׂתֶיkasksote
scale
Scale of a fish; also the plates of a coat of armor.
Where else “kasksote” appears- and I will bring you upהַעֲלִיתִיhaaliti
bring up
To make someone go up: "I led you up from Egypt".
Where else “haaliti” appears- from the midstתּוֹךְtoch
midst
The central point of something, or the company of several: in the midst of them.
Where else “toch” appears
Places in this verse
Nile
Today: Nile River, Uganda to Egypt and the Mediterranean
Egypt's great river; it flows north to the Mediterranean Sea.
Pharaoh dreamed beside the Nile (Gen 41:1). God turned its waters to blood (Exod 7:20), and baby Moses was placed on its bank (Exod 2:3-5).
The context
3Speak and say, ‘Thus says Adonai YHWH: Look, I am against you, Pharaoh, king of Egypt, the great sea monster lying in the midst of his channels, who has said, “Mine is my Nile, and I made it for myself.”
4 · This verse (above)
5And I will leave you in the wilderness, you and all the fish of your channels; on the face of the field you will fall; you will not be gathered nor be collected; to the animals of the earth and to the birds of the heavens I have given you as food.