Ezekiel 18:17
Old Testament • 15 words with Strong's data
"That hath taken off his hand from the poor, that hath not received usury nor increase, hath executed my judgments, hath walked in my statutes; he shall not die for the iniquity of his father, he shall surely live."
Word-by-Word Analysis
לָקַח
lâqach
to take (in the widest variety of applications)
יָד
yâd
a hand (the open one (indicating power, means, direction, etc.),
עָנִי
ʻânîy
depressed, in mind or circumstances
לָקַח
lâqach
to take (in the widest variety of applications)
תְּבוּאָה
tᵉbûwʼâh
income, i.e. produce (literally or figuratively)
עָשָׂה
ʻâsâh
to do or make, in the broadest sense and widest application
מִשְׁפָּט
mishpâṭ
properly, a verdict (favorable or unfavorable) pronounced judicially, especially a sentence or formal decree (human or (participant's) divine law, ind...
הָלַךְ
hâlak
to walk (in a great variety of applications, literally and figuratively)
חֹק
chôq
an enactment; hence, an appointment (of time, space, quantity, labor or usage)
מוּת
mûwth
to die (literally or figuratively); causatively, to kill
אָב
ʼâb
father, in a literal and immediate, or figurative and remote application
מוּת
mûwth
to die (literally or figuratively); causatively, to kill
חָיָה
châyâh
to live, whether literally or figuratively; causatively, to revive
Key Terms in This Verse
עָשָׂה ʻâsâh
to do or make, in the broadest sense and widest application
Study H6213 →הָלַךְ hâlak
to walk (in a great variety of applications, literally and figuratively)
Study H1980 →מִשְׁפָּט mishpâṭ
properly, a verdict (favorable or unfavorable) pronounced judicially, especially a sentence or formal decree (human or (participant's) divine law, individual or collective), including the act, the pla...
Study H4941 →חֹק chôq
an enactment; hence, an appointment (of time, space, quantity, labor or usage)
Study H2706 →חָיָה châyâh
to live, whether literally or figuratively; causatively, to revive
Study H2421 →Cross References
Even from the days of your fathers ye are gone away from mine ordinances, and have not kept them. Return unto me, and I will return unto you, saith the LORD of hosts. But ye said, Wherein shall we ret...
Wherefore say unto the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Are ye polluted after the manner of your fathers? and commit ye whoredom after their abominations?
The righteous considereth the cause of the poor: but the wicked regardeth not to know it.
Hath given forth upon usury, and hath taken increase: shall he then live? he shall not live: he hath done all these abominations; he shall surely die; his blood shall be upon him.
But I said unto their children in the wilderness, Walk ye not in the statutes of your fathers, neither observe their judgments, nor defile yourselves with their idols:
Ye shall do my judgments, and keep mine ordinances, to walk therein: I am the LORD your God.
O LORD, my strength, and my fortress, and my refuge in the day of affliction, the Gentiles shall come unto thee from the ends of the earth, and shall say, Surely our fathers have inherited lies, vanit...
Wherefore, O king, let my counsel be acceptable unto thee, and break off thy sins by righteousness, and thine iniquities by shewing mercy to the poor; if it may be a lengthening of thy tranquillity.
Therefore shall ye keep mine ordinance, that ye commit not any one of these abominable customs, which were committed before you, and that ye defile not yourselves therein: I am the LORD your God.
Ye shall therefore keep my statutes and my judgments, and shall not commit any of these abominations; neither any of your own nation, nor any stranger that sojourneth among you:
I was a father to the poor: and the cause which I knew not I searched out.
He that oppresseth the poor reproacheth his Maker: but he that honoureth him hath mercy on the poor.
When I shall say to the righteous, that he shall surely live; if he trust to his own righteousness, and commit iniquity, all his righteousnesses shall not be remembered; but for his iniquity that he h...
Nevertheless if thou warn the righteous man, that the righteous sin not, and he doth not sin, he shall surely live, because he is warned; also thou hast delivered thy soul.
The king that faithfully judgeth the poor, his throne shall be established for ever.
Because he considereth, and turneth away from all his transgressions that he hath committed, he shall surely live, he shall not die.
He judged the cause of the poor and needy; then it was well with him: was not this to know me? saith the LORD.
And Zacchaeus stood, and said unto the Lord; Behold, Lord, the half of my goods I give to the poor; and if I have taken any thing from any man by false accusation, I restore him fourfold.
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