Ezekiel 4
Study sheet, King James Version, with the original-language words this chapter turns on.
The text
1Thou also, son of man, take thee a tile, and lay it before thee, and pourtray upon it the city, even Jerusalem:
2And lay siege against it, and build a fort against it, and cast a mount against it; set the camp also against it, and set battering rams against it round about.
3Moreover take thou unto thee an iron pan, and set it for a wall of iron between thee and the city: and set thy face against it, and it shall be besieged, and thou shalt lay siege against it. This shall be a sign to the house of Israel.
4Lie thou also upon thy left side, and lay the iniquity of the house of Israel upon it: according to the number of the days that thou shalt lie upon it thou shalt bear their iniquity.
5For I have laid upon thee the years of their iniquity, according to the number of the days, three hundred and ninety days: so shalt thou bear the iniquity of the house of Israel.
6And when thou hast accomplished them, lie again on thy right side, and thou shalt bear the iniquity of the house of Judah forty days: I have appointed thee each day for a year.
7Therefore thou shalt set thy face toward the siege of Jerusalem, and thine arm shall be uncovered, and thou shalt prophesy against it.
8And, behold, I will lay bands upon thee, and thou shalt not turn thee from one side to another, till thou hast ended the days of thy siege.
9Take thou also unto thee wheat, and barley, and beans, and lentiles, and millet, and fitches, and put them in one vessel, and make thee bread thereof, according to the number of the days that thou shalt lie upon thy side, three hundred and ninety days shalt thou eat thereof.
10And thy meat which thou shalt eat shall be by weight, twenty shekels a day: from time to time shalt thou eat it.
11Thou shalt drink also water by measure, the sixth part of an hin: from time to time shalt thou drink.
12And thou shalt eat it as barley cakes, and thou shalt bake it with dung that cometh out of man, in their sight.
13And the LORD said, Even thus shall the children of Israel eat their defiled bread among the Gentiles, whither I will drive them.
14Then said I, Ah Lord GOD! behold, my soul hath not been polluted: for from my youth up even till now have I not eaten of that which dieth of itself, or is torn in pieces; neither came there abominable flesh into my mouth.
15Then he said unto me, Lo, I have given thee cow's dung for man's dung, and thou shalt prepare thy bread therewith.
16Moreover he said unto me, Son of man, behold, I will break the staff of bread in Jerusalem: and they shall eat bread by weight, and with care; and they shall drink water by measure, and with astonishment:
17That they may want bread and water, and be astonied one with another, and consume away for their iniquity.
Words in this chapter
Definitions are Strong's own wording from his Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Counts are how often each word appears in this chapter, from the tagged text.
- עַלʻalH592115× in this chapter
above, over, upon, or against (yet always in this last relation with a downward aspect) in a great variety of applications
- אֵתʼêthH85314× in this chapter
properly, self (but generally used to point out more definitely the object of a verb or preposition, even or namely)
- יוֹםyôwmH311710× in this chapter
a day (as the warm hours), whether literal (from sunrise to sunset, or from one sunset to the next), or figurative (a space of time defined by an associated term), (often used adverb)
- נָתַןnâthanH54149× in this chapter
to give, used with greatest latitude of application (put, make, etc.)
- אָכַלʼâkalH3987× in this chapter
to eat (literally or figuratively)
- לֶחֶםlechemH38996× in this chapter
food (for man or beast), especially bread, or grain (for making it)
- עָוֺןʻâvônH57716× in this chapter
perversity, i.e. (moral) evil
- אֵלʼêlH4135× in this chapter
near, with or among; often in general, to
- צַדtsadH66545× in this chapter
a side; figuratively, an adversary
- אַתָּהʼattâhH8595× in this chapter
thou and thee, or (plural) ye and you
- בַּיִתbayithH10044× in this chapter
a house (in the greatest variation of applications, especially family, etc.)
- אָדָםʼâdâmH1204× in this chapter
ruddy i.e. a human being (an individual or the species, mankind, etc.)
- יִשְׂרָאֵלYisrâʼêlH34784× in this chapter
Jisrael, a symbolical name of Jacob; also (typically) of his posterity
- לֹאlôʼH38084× in this chapter
not (the simple or abs. negation); by implication, no; often used with other particles
- מָצוֹרmâtsôwrH46924× in this chapter
something hemming in, i.e. (objectively) a mound (of besiegers), (abstractly) a siege, (figuratively) distress; or (subjectively) a fastness
- אָמַרʼâmarH5594× in this chapter
to say (used with great latitude)
- עַדʻadH57044× in this chapter
as far (or long, or much) as, whether of space (even unto) or time (during, while, until) or degree (equally with)
- עֵתʻêthH62564× in this chapter
time, especially (adverb with preposition) now, when, etc.
- שָׁכַבshâkabH79014× in this chapter
to lie down (for rest, sexual connection, decease or any other purpose)
- אֲשֶׁרʼăsherH8344× in this chapter
who, which, what, that; also (as an adverb and a conjunction) when, where, how, because, in order that, etc.
- בֵּןbênH11213× in this chapter
a son (as a builder of the family name), in the widest sense (of literal and figurative relationship, including grandson, subject, nation, quality or condition, etc., (like father or brother), etc.)
- יְרוּשָׁלַ͏ִםYᵉrûwshâlaimH33893× in this chapter
Jerushalaim or Jerushalem, the capital city of Palestine
- לָקַחlâqachH39473× in this chapter
to take (in the widest variety of applications)
- מַיִםmayimH43253× in this chapter
water; figuratively, juice; by euphemism, urine, semen
- מִסְפָּרmiçpârH45573× in this chapter
a number, definite (arithmetical) or indefinite (large, innumerable; small, a few); also (abstractly) narration
- נָשָׂאnâsâʼH53753× in this chapter
to lift, in a great variety of applications, literal and figurative, absolute and relative
- פָּנִיםpânîymH64403× in this chapter
the face (as the part that turns); used in a great variety of applications (literally and figuratively); also (with prepositional prefix) as a preposition (before, etc.)
- שָׁנֶהshânehH81413× in this chapter
a year (as a revolution of time)
- שָׁתָהshâthâhH83543× in this chapter
to imbibe (literally or figuratively)
- בַּרְזֶלbarzelH12702× in this chapter
iron (as cutting); by extension, an iron implement
- גֵּלֶלgêlelH15612× in this chapter
dung (plural balls of dung)
- הוּאhûwʼH19312× in this chapter
he (she or it); only expressed when emphatic or without a verb; also (intensively) self, or (especially with the article) the same; sometimes (as demonstrative) this or that; occasionally (instead of copula) as or are
- הִנֵּהhinnêhH20092× in this chapter
lo!
- כּוּןkûwnH35592× in this chapter
properly, to be erect (i.e. stand perpendicular); hence (causatively) to set up, in a great variety of applications, whether literal (establish, fix, prepare, apply), or figurative (appoint, render sure, proper or prosperous)
- כָּלָהkâlâhH36152× in this chapter
to end, whether intransitive (to cease, be finished, perish) or transitived (to complete, prepare, consume)
- מֵאָהmêʼâhH39672× in this chapter
a hundred; also as a multiplicative and a fraction
- מְשׂוּרָהmᵉsûwrâhH48842× in this chapter
a measure (for liquids)
- עִירʻîyrH58922× in this chapter
a city (a place guarded by waking or a watch) in the widest sense (even of a mere encampment or post)
- עָשָׂהʻâsâhH62132× in this chapter
to do or make, in the broadest sense and widest application
- שׂוּםsûwmH77602× in this chapter
to put (used in a great variety of applications, literal, figurative, inferentially, and elliptically)