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And the wordוַ דְבַרof YHWHיְהֹוָהcameיְהִיto me,אֵלַיsaying,לֵאמֹר
Ezekiel 33:23
Study it in the app“And the word of YHWH came to me, saying,”
With the Hebrew beneath
Ezekiel 33:23, word by word
- And the wordדְבַרdevar
word
What someone says or announces, above all what YHWH says.
Where else “devar” appears- of YHWHיְהֹוָהyehova
YHWH
The personal name of the God of Israel, written in Hebrew with four letters, Y-H-W-H, without vowels. Out of reverence Jews stopped pronouncing it and read "Adonai" (Lord), so many Bibles put "the LORD" or "Jehovah". This translation keeps the four letters. The name is related to the verb "to be" (Exodus 3:14-15). He is not a god other than Elohim: "YHWH Elohim" is the same Creator God, called by his name.
Where else “yehova” appears- cameיְהִיyehi
become
To turn into something new, or fall upon someone.
Where else “yehi” appears- sayingאמֹרmor
say
To say with the mouth to someone what one thinks or wants, or to answer him.
Where else “mor” appears
The context
22And the hand of YHWH had been upon me in the evening before the fugitive came, and he opened my mouth until he came to me in the morning; and my mouth was opened, and I was no longer mute.
23 · This verse (above)
24“Son of man, the inhabitants of these ruins on the ground of Israel are saying thus: ‘Abraham was one, and he possessed the land; and we are many; to us the land has been given as a possession.’