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And they were scatteredוַתְּפוּצֶינָהfor lack ofמִבְּלִיa shepherd,רֹעֶהand they becameוַתִּהְיֶינָהfoodלְאָכְלָהfor everyלְכָלanimalחַיַּתof the field,הַשָּׂדֶהand they were scattered.וַתְּפוּצֶינָה
Ezekiel 34:5
Study it in the app“And they were scattered for lack of a shepherd, and they became food for every animal of the field, and they were scattered.”
With the Hebrew beneath
Ezekiel 34:5, word by word
- And they were scatteredתְּפוּצֶינָהtefutsena
be scattered
To end up scattered in many places, like a people without a shepherd.
Where else “tefutsena” appears- for lack ofבְּלִיbeli
without; not
Without; not; nothing.
Where else “beli” appears- a shepherdרֹעֶהroe
shepherd
One who looks after sheep; or one who leads a people, like YHWH.
Where else “roe” appears- and they becameתִּהְיֶינָהtihyena
become
To turn into something new, or fall upon someone.
Where else “tihyena” appears- foodאָכְלָהachla
fuel
What fire or wild beasts eat up.
Where else “achla” appears- animalחַיַּתchayat
beast
Literally "living thing": a creature, especially a wild one.
Where else “chayat” appears- of the fieldשָּׂדֶהsade
field
The open country: "the beasts of the field".
Where else “sade” appears
The context
4The weak you have not strengthened, and the sick you have not healed, and the broken you have not bound up, and the strayed you have not brought back, and the lost you have not sought; but with force you have ruled them, and with harshness.
5 · This verse (above)
6My sheep wander over all the mountains and on every high hill; and over all the face of the earth my sheep were scattered, and there is no one who inquires and no one who seeks.