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And you will takeוְלָקַחְתָּfrom thereמִשָּׁםa fewמְעַטin numberבְּמִסְפָּרand bind themוְצַרְתָּ אוֹתָםin the hemsבִּכְנָפֶיof your robe.ךָ
Ezekiel 5:3
Study it in the app“And you will take from there a few in number and bind them in the hems of your robe.”
With the Hebrew beneath
Ezekiel 5:3, word by word
- And you will takeלָקַחְתָּlakachta
take
To grasp something in the hand to carry or use it.
Where else “lakachta” appears- a fewמְעַטmeat
few
A small amount: few in number, or a short time.
Where else “meat” appears- in numberמִסְפָּרmispar
number
The amount that results from counting: how many there are.
Where else “mispar” appears- and bind themצַרְתָּtsarta
besiege
To encircle a city, or shut something in.
Where else “tsarta” appears- in the hemsכְנָפֶיchenafe
edge
Literally "wing": the flap of a cloak, or the far reaches of the earth.
Where else “chenafe” appears
The context
2A third you will burn with fire in the midst of the city, when the days of the siege are completed; and you will take a third and strike it with the sword all around it; and a third you will scatter to the wind, and a sword I will unsheathe after them.
3 · This verse (above)
4And from them again you will take, and throw them into the midst of the fire, and burn them in the fire; from it fire will go out to all the house of Israel.