Ezekiel 14:5
Old Testament • 8 words with Strong's data
"That I may take the house of Israel in their own heart, because they are all estranged from me through their idols."
Word-by-Word Analysis
לָקַח
lâqach
to take (in the widest variety of applications)
בַּיִת
bayith
a house (in the greatest variation of applications, especially family, etc.)
יִשְׂרָאֵל
Yisrâʼêl
Jisrael, a symbolical name of Jacob; also (typically) of his posterity
לֵב
lêb
the heart; also used (figuratively) very widely for the feelings, the will and even the intellect; likewise for the centre of anything
פָּנִים
pânîym
the face (as the part that turns); used in a great variety of applications (literally and figuratively); also (with prepositional prefix) as a preposi...
זוּר
zûwr
to turn aside (especially for lodging); hence to be aforeigner, strange, profane; specifically (active participle) to commit adultery
עָבַר
ʻâbar
to cross over; used very widely of any transition (literal or figurative; transitive, intransitive, intensive, causative); specifically, to cover (in ...
גִּלּוּל
gillûwl
properly, a log (as round); by implication, an idol
Key Terms in This Verse
זוּר zûwr
to turn aside (especially for lodging); hence to be aforeigner, strange, profane; specifically (active participle) to commit adultery
Study H2114 →עָבַר ʻâbar
to cross over; used very widely of any transition (literal or figurative; transitive, intransitive, intensive, causative); specifically, to cover (in copulation)
Study H5674 →לֵב lêb
the heart; also used (figuratively) very widely for the feelings, the will and even the intellect; likewise for the centre of anything
Study H3820 →פָּנִים pânîym
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.)
Study H6440 →בַּיִת bayith
a house (in the greatest variation of applications, especially family, etc.)
Study H1004 →יִשְׂרָאֵל Yisrâʼêl
Jisrael, a symbolical name of Jacob; also (typically) of his posterity
Study H3478 →Cross References
Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, children that are corrupters: they have forsaken the LORD, they have provoked the Holy One of Israel unto anger, they are gone away...
Three shepherds also I cut off in one month; and my soul lothed them, and their soul also abhorred me.
Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.
And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;
Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God.
Thus saith the LORD, What iniquity have your fathers found in me, that they are gone far from me, and have walked after vanity, and are become vain?
Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,
And you, that were sometime alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now hath he reconciled
Having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart:
Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.
Their heart is divided; now shall they be found faulty: he shall break down their altars, he shall spoil their images.
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