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And he saidוַיֹּאמֶרto me,אֵלַי“Have you seen,הֲרָאִיתָsonבֶןof man?אָדָםYetעוֹדyou will againתָּשׁוּבseeתִּרְאֶהgreaterגְּדֹלוֹתabominationsתּוֹעֵבוֹתthan these.”מֵאֵלֶּה
Ezekiel 8:15
Study it in the app“And he said to me, “Have you seen, son of man? Yet you will again see greater abominations than these.””
With the Hebrew beneath
Ezekiel 8:15, word by word
- And he saidיֹּאמֶרyomer
say
To say with the mouth to someone what one thinks or wants, or to answer him.
Where else “yomer” appears- “Have you seenרָאִיתָraita
see
To see with one's eyes.
Where else “raita” appears- sonבֶןven
human being
Literally "son of Adam": any person, a mortal.
Where else “ven” appears- of manאָדָםadam
human being
All humankind, men and women, as creatures God formed.
Where else “adam” appears- you will againתָּשׁוּבtashuv
again
To do something one more time.
Where else “tashuv” appears- greaterגְּדֹלוֹתgedolot
great
Of great size, amount or importance: a river, a city, a king.
Where else “gedolot” appears- abominationsתּוֹעֵבוֹתtoevot
abomination
Abomination: something that a people or God rejects with disgust, above all idolatry and the practices God forbids; also a custom another people will not tolerate.
Where else “toevot” appears
The context
14And he brought me to the entrance of the gate of the house of YHWH that was toward the north, and look, there the women were sitting weeping for Tammuz.
15 · This verse (above)
16And he brought me to the inner court of the house of YHWH, and look, at the entrance of the temple of YHWH, between the porch and the altar, about twenty-five men, their backs toward the temple of YHWH and their faces eastward, and they were bowing down eastward to the sun.