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And I will scatterוַהֲפִצוֹתִיEgyptמִצְרַיִםamong the nationsבַּגּוֹיִםand disperse themוְזֵרִיתִםthrough the lands.בָּאֲרָצוֹת
Ezekiel 30:23
Study it in the app“And I will scatter Egypt among the nations and disperse them through the lands.”
With the Hebrew beneath
Ezekiel 30:23, word by word
- And I will scatterהֲפִצוֹתִיhafitsoti
scatter
To scatter people over many places, as a punishment.
Where else “hafitsoti” appears- Egyptמִצְרַיִםmitsrayim
Egypt, Mizraim
See it on the mapWhere else “mitsrayim” appears- among the nationsגּוֹיִםgoyim
Gentiles
The peoples other than Israel.
Where else “goyim” appears- and disperse themזֵרִיתִzeriti
scatter
To strew people or things about.
Where else “zeriti” appears- through the landsאֲרָצוֹתaratsot
land
A region or nation, above all Israel's.
Where else “aratsot” appears
Places in this verse
Egypt
Today: Egypt (Nile Valley)
A country in northeast Africa along the Nile River, southwest of Israel.
Joseph was sold into it, and his family went down to live there (Gen 37:28; 46:6). God brought Israel out of it with a mighty hand (Exod 12:41). The child Jesus fled there with his parents (Matt 2:14).
The context
22Therefore thus says Adonai YHWH: Look, I am against Pharaoh king of Egypt, and I will break his arms, the strong and the broken, and I will make the sword fall from his hand.
23 · This verse (above)
24And I will strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon and put my sword in his hand; and I will break the arms of Pharaoh, and he will groan before him with the groans of a mortally wounded man.