Ezekiel 38:12

“to take spoil and to seize plunder, to turn your hand against the ruins now inhabited, and against a people gathered from nations, who have acquired livestock and goods, who live at the navel of the earth.”

Ezekiel 38:12 · direct translation from the Hebrew
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Ezekiel 38:12, word by word

to takeשְׁלֹלshelol

plunder

To strip the defeated of their goods.

Where else “shelol” appears
spoilשָׁלָלshalal

spoil, plunder

Spoil: what is taken from a defeated enemy.

Where else “shalal” appears
and to seizeבֹזvoz

plunder

Plunder, take spoil.

Where else “voz” appears
plunderבַּזbaz

plunder, booty

Plunder: what the victor carries off from the defeated.

Where else “baz” appears
to turnהָשִׁיבhashiv

return

To go back to a place.

Where else “hashiv” appears
your handיָדְyad

power

Literally "the hand": the strength and control someone has.

Where else “yad” appears
against the ruinsחֳרָבוֹתchoravot

ruin, desolate place

A ruin, a destroyed and deserted place.

Where else “choravot” appears
now inhabitedנוֹשָׁבֹתnoshavot

be inhabited

For a land to be inhabited.

Where else “noshavot” appears
and against a peopleעַםam

crowd

The people gathered in a place: the crowd, or the troops that go out to war.

Where else “am” appears
gatheredמְאֻסָּףmeusaf

assemble

To bring people together in one place.

Where else “meusaf” appears
from nationsגּוֹיִםgoyim

Gentiles

The peoples other than Israel.

Where else “goyim” appears
who have acquiredעֹשֶׂהose

do

To carry out an act or to deal with someone in a certain way, for good or ill.

Where else “ose” appears
livestockמִקְנֶהmikne

livestock

Livestock: the animals someone owns, as property.

Where else “mikne” appears
and goodsקִנְיָןkinyan

possessions

What has been acquired: goods, possessions, property.

Where else “kinyan” appears
the navelטַבּוּרtabur

center, highest part

The central and highest part of a region. The word appears only in Judges 9:37 and Ezekiel 38:12.

Where else “tabur” appears
of the earthאָרֶץarets

earth

The whole world, everything under the sky.

Where else “arets” appears

Translation note

“The navel of the earth”: its center (also Judges 9:37).

The context

11and you will say, “I will go up against a land of unwalled towns; I will come against those at ease, who live securely, all of them living without wall, and bar and doors they do not have,”

12 · This verse (above)

13Sheba and Dedan and the merchants of Tarshish and all its young lions will say to you, “Is it to take spoil that you come? Is it to seize plunder that you have assembled your assembly, to carry away silver and gold, to take livestock and goods, to take great spoil?”’

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