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Allכָּלhandsהַיָּדַיִםwill grow limp,תִּרְפֶּינָהand allוְכָלkneesבִּרְכַּיִםwill goתֵּלַכְנָהto water.מָּיִם
Ezekiel 7:17
Study it in the app“All hands will grow limp, and all knees will go to water.”
With the Hebrew beneath
Ezekiel 7:17, word by word
- handsיָּדַיִםyadayim
hand
The part of the body with which one takes, gives and works; also what one does.
Where else “yadayim” appears- will grow limpתִּרְפֶּינָהtirpena
go limp
To grow feeble, be discouraged.
Where else “tirpena” appears- kneesבִּרְכַּיִםbirkayim
knee
Knee.
Where else “birkayim” appears- will goתֵּלַכְנָהtelachna
go
To head for a place, to leave where one is in order to reach another.
Where else “telachna” appears- to waterמָּיִםmayim
water
Water: for drinking, of rivers or seas.
Where else “mayim” appears
Translation note
“Knees will go to water”: an image of the fear that leaves one without strength (it may also refer to urine from terror).
The context
16And those of them who escape will escape, and they will be on the mountains like doves of the valleys, all of them moaning, each for his iniquity.
17 · This verse (above)
18And they will gird on sackcloth, and shuddering will cover them; and on all faces will be shame, and on all their heads baldness.