Ezekiel 38:16

“And you will come up against my people Israel like a cloud to cover the land; in the last days it will be, and I will bring you against my land, so that the nations may know me, when I am sanctified through you, Gog, before their eyes.”

Ezekiel 38:16 · direct translation from the Hebrew
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Ezekiel 38:16, word by word

And you will come upעָלִיתָalita

go up

To go from a low place to a higher one: up the mountain, to Jerusalem or to a city.

Where else “alita” appears
against my peopleעַמִּami

Ammi

Israel, YHWH's people: "my people".

Where else “ami” appears
Israelיִשְׂרָאֵלyisrael

Israel

Israel, the new name Jacob received from God, explained as "you have striven with God" (Genesis 32:28); then the name of the people that came from him and, after the division, of the northern kingdom.

Where else “yisrael” appears
like a cloudעָנָןanan

cloud

A mass of vapor in the sky that gives shade, brings rain or covers the light.

Where else “anan” appears
to coverכַסּוֹתchasot

cover

To put something over a thing so that it can no longer be seen.

Where else “chasot” appears
the landאָרֶץarets

land

A region or nation, above all Israel's.

Where else “arets” appears
in the last daysאַחֲרִיתacharit

future

The time that comes after, what awaits someone further on.

Where else “acharit” appears
in the last daysיָּמִיםyamim

time

Literally "the days": a period, an age, or the span of someone's life.

Where else “yamim” appears
it will beתִּהְיֶהtihye

be

To be: "I will be their Elohim".

Where else “tihye” appears
and I will bring youהֲבִאוֹתִיhavioti

bring

To bring something or someone.

Where else “havioti” appears
the nationsגּוֹיִםgoyim

Gentiles

The peoples other than Israel.

Where else “goyim” appears
may knowדַּעַתdaat

know a person

To know someone.

Where else “daat” appears
when I am sanctifiedהִקָּדְשִׁhikadshi

be holy

To be holy, set apart for God.

Where else “hikadshi” appears
Gogגּוֹגgog

Gog

Gog: a man of the tribe of Reuben. In Ezekiel 38-39 the same name is borne by the chief of a people of the north.

Where else “gog” appears
before their eyesעֵינֵיene

sight

"In the eyes of" someone: in their view.

Where else “ene” appears

The context

15And you will come from your place, from the farthest parts of the north, you and many peoples with you, riding horses, all of them, a great assembly, and a numerous army.

16 · This verse (above)

17Thus says Adonai YHWH: Are you the one of whom I spoke in former days by the hand of my servants, the prophets of Israel, who prophesied in those days for years that I would bring you against them?

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