Ezekiel 22:7
Old Testament • 11 words with Strong's data
"In thee have they set light by father and mother: in the midst of thee have they dealt by oppression with the stranger: in thee have they vexed the fatherless and the widow."
Word-by-Word Analysis
שׂוּם
sûwm
to put (used in a great variety of applications, literal, figurative, inferentially, and elliptically)
אוֹר
ʼôwr
illumination or (concrete) luminary (in every sense, including lightning, happiness, etc.)
אָב
ʼâb
father, in a literal and immediate, or figurative and remote application
אֵם
ʼêm
a mother (as the bond of the family); in a wide sense (both literally and figuratively (like father))
תָּוֶךְ
tâvek
a bisection, i.e. (by implication) the centre
עָשָׂה
ʻâsâh
to do or make, in the broadest sense and widest application
עֹשֶׁק
ʻôsheq
injury, fraud, (subjectively) distress, (concretely) unjust gain
גֵּר
gêr
properly, a guest; by implication, a foreigner
יָנָה
yânâh
to rage or be violent; by implication, to suppress, to maltreat
אַלְמָנָה
ʼalmânâh
a widow; also a desolate place
Key Terms in This Verse
יָנָה yânâh
to rage or be violent; by implication, to suppress, to maltreat
Study H3238 →עֹשֶׁק ʻôsheq
injury, fraud, (subjectively) distress, (concretely) unjust gain
Study H6233 →אוֹר ʼôwr
illumination or (concrete) luminary (in every sense, including lightning, happiness, etc.)
Study H216 →אֵם ʼêm
a mother (as the bond of the family); in a wide sense (both literally and figuratively (like father))
Study H517 →שׂוּם sûwm
to put (used in a great variety of applications, literal, figurative, inferentially, and elliptically)
Study H7760 →Cross References
Cursed be he that setteth light by his father or his mother. And all the people shall say, Amen.
For every one that curseth his father or his mother shall be surely put to death: he hath cursed his father or his mother; his blood shall be upon him.
If ye oppress not the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, and shed not innocent blood in this place, neither walk after other gods to your hurt:
And I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against false swearers, and against those that oppress the hireling in his...
And oppress not the widow, nor the fatherless, the stranger, nor the poor; and let none of you imagine evil against his brother in your heart.
Cursed be he that perverteth the judgment of the stranger, fatherless, and widow. And all the people shall say, Amen.
Hath oppressed the poor and needy, hath spoiled by violence, hath not restored the pledge, and hath lifted up his eyes to the idols, hath committed abomination,
The people of the land have used oppression, and exercised robbery, and have vexed the poor and needy: yea, they have oppressed the stranger wrongfully.
For Moses said, Honour thy father and thy mother; and, Whoso curseth father or mother, let him die the death:
There is a generation that curseth their father, and doth not bless their mother.
Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.
And he that curseth his father, or his mother, shall surely be put to death.
Honour thy father and thy mother, as the LORD thy God hath commanded thee; that thy days may be prolonged, and that it may go well with thee, in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.
The eye that mocketh at his father, and despiseth to obey his mother, the ravens of the valley shall pick it out, and the young eagles shall eat it.
Whoso curseth his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in obscure darkness.
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