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And I will make youוְאֶתְּנֵךְa ruinלְחָרְבָּהand a reproachוּלְחֶרְפָּהamong the nationsבַּגּוֹיִםthat areאֲשֶׁרaround you,סְבִיבוֹתָיִךְin the sightלְעֵינֵיof allכָּלwho pass by.עוֹבֵר
Ezekiel 5:14
Study it in the app“And I will make you a ruin and a reproach among the nations that are around you, in the sight of all who pass by.”
With the Hebrew beneath
Ezekiel 5:14, word by word
- And I will make youאֶתְּנֵetne
make
To make someone something: "I have made you a father".
Where else “etne” appears- a ruinחָרְבָּהcharba
ruin, desolate place
A ruin, a destroyed and deserted place.
Where else “charba” appears- and a reproachחֶרְפָּהcherpa
disgrace, reproach
Disgrace, reproach, scorn from others. Being childless was then felt as a humiliation.
Where else “cherpa” appears- among the nationsגּוֹיִםgoyim
Gentiles
The peoples other than Israel.
Where else “goyim” appears- around youסְבִיבוֹתָיִsevivotayi
around
In a circle or on every side of something: the camp, the city, the altar.
Where else “sevivotayi” appears- in the sightעֵינֵיene
sight
"In the eyes of" someone: in their view.
Where else “ene” appears- who pass byעוֹבֵרover
pass
To get over a river, or go through a land.
Where else “over” appears
The context
13And my anger will be spent, and I will make my fury rest on them, and I will be comforted; and they will know that I, YHWH, have spoken in my jealousy when I have spent my fury on them.
14 · This verse (above)
15And it will be a reproach and a taunt, a correction and a horror to the nations that are around you, when I carry out judgments on you in anger and in fury and with rebukes of fury. I, YHWH, have spoken.