Ezekiel 16:4
Old Testament • 14 words with Strong's data
"And as for thy nativity, in the day thou wast born thy navel was not cut, neither wast thou washed in water to supple thee; thou wast not salted at all, nor swaddled at all."
Word-by-Word Analysis
מוֹלֶדֶת
môwledeth
nativity (plural birth-place); by implication, lineage, native country; also offspring, family
יוֹם
yôwm
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 asso...
יָלַד
yâlad
to bear young; causatively, to beget; medically, to act as midwife; specifically, to show lineage
שָׁרִיר
shârîyr
a cord, i.e. (by analogy) sinew
לֹא
lôʼ
not (the simple or abs. negation); by implication, no; often used with other particles
רָחַץ
râchats
to lave (the whole or a part of a thing)
מַיִם
mayim
water; figuratively, juice; by euphemism, urine, semen
מָלַח
mâlach
properly, to rub to pieces or pulverize; intransitively, to disappear as dust; to salt whether internally (to season with salt) or externally (to rub ...
טָפַח
ṭâphach
to flatten out or extend (as a tent); figuratively, to nurse achild (as promotive of growth);
Key Terms in This Verse
טָפַח ṭâphach
to flatten out or extend (as a tent); figuratively, to nurse achild (as promotive of growth);
Study H2946 →מָלַח mâlach
properly, to rub to pieces or pulverize; intransitively, to disappear as dust; to salt whether internally (to season with salt) or externally (to rub with salt)
Study H4414 →מוֹלֶדֶת môwledeth
nativity (plural birth-place); by implication, lineage, native country; also offspring, family
Study H4138 →יָלַד yâlad
to bear young; causatively, to beget; medically, to act as midwife; specifically, to show lineage
Study H3205 →Cross References
Lest I strip her naked, and set her as in the day that she was born, and make her as a wilderness, and set her like a dry land, and slay her with thirst.
And he said unto Abram, Know of a surety that thy seed shall be a stranger in a land that is not theirs, and shall serve them; and they shall afflict them four hundred years;
And Joshua said unto all the people, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Your fathers dwelt on the other side of the flood in old time, even Terah, the father of Abraham, and the father of Nachor: and ...
And thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in the land of Egypt, and the LORD thy God redeemed thee: therefore I command thee this thing to day.
I am the LORD thy God, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage.
And this shall be a sign unto you; Ye shall find the babe wrapped in swaddling clothes, lying in a manger.
And she brought forth her firstborn son, and wrapped him in swaddling clothes, and laid him in a manger; because there was no room for them in the inn.
But they rebelled against me, and would not hearken unto me: they did not every man cast away the abominations of their eyes, neither did they forsake the idols of Egypt: then I said, I will pour out ...
Thou hast called as in a solemn day my terrors round about, so that in the day of the LORD’s anger none escaped nor remained: those that I have swaddled and brought up hath mine enemy consumed.
Behold, O LORD, and consider to whom thou hast done this. Shall the women eat their fruit, and children of a span long? shall the priest and the prophet be slain in the sanctuary of the Lord?
But the house of Israel rebelled against me in the wilderness: they walked not in my statutes, and they despised my judgments, which if a man do, he shall even live in them; and my sabbaths they great...
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