Ezekiel 22:9
Old Testament • 10 words with Strong's data
"In thee are men that carry tales to shed blood: and in thee they eat upon the mountains: in the midst of thee they commit lewdness."
Word-by-Word Analysis
אֱנוֹשׁ
ʼĕnôwsh
a man in general (singly or collectively)
נָשָׂא
nâsâʼ
to lift, in a great variety of applications, literal and figurative, absolute and relative
רָכִיל
râkîyl
a scandal-monger (as travelling about)
שָׁפַךְ
shâphak
to spill forth (blood, a libation, liquid metal; or even a solid, i.e. to mound up); also (figuratively) to expend (life, soul, complaint, money, etc....
דָּם
dâm
blood (as that which when shed causes death) of man or an animal; by analogy, the juice of the grape; figuratively (especially in the plural) bloodshe...
אָכַל
ʼâkal
to eat (literally or figuratively)
הַר
har
a mountain or range of hills (sometimes used figuratively)
תָּוֶךְ
tâvek
a bisection, i.e. (by implication) the centre
עָשָׂה
ʻâsâh
to do or make, in the broadest sense and widest application
Key Terms in This Verse
שָׁפַךְ shâphak
to spill forth (blood, a libation, liquid metal; or even a solid, i.e. to mound up); also (figuratively) to expend (life, soul, complaint, money, etc.); intensively, to sprawl out
Study H8210 →נָשָׂא nâsâʼ
to lift, in a great variety of applications, literal and figurative, absolute and relative
Study H5375 →דָּם dâm
blood (as that which when shed causes death) of man or an animal; by analogy, the juice of the grape; figuratively (especially in the plural) bloodshed (i.e. drops of blood)
Study H1818 →Cross References
I will not punish your daughters when they commit whoredom, nor your spouses when they commit adultery: for themselves are separated with whores, and they sacrifice with harlots: therefore the people ...
Thou shalt not go up and down as a talebearer among thy people: neither shalt thou stand against the blood of thy neighbour: I am the LORD.
By swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery, they break out, and blood toucheth blood.
For they shall eat, and not have enough: they shall commit whoredom, and shall not increase: because they have left off to take heed to the LORD.
Thou sittest and speakest against thy brother; thou slanderest thine own mother’s son.
And that doeth not any of those duties, but even hath eaten upon the mountains, and defiled his neighbour’s wife,
Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour.
Now the chief priests, and elders, and all the council, sought false witness against Jesus, to put him to death;
He that hideth hatred with lying lips, and he that uttereth a slander, is a fool.
Because thou hast not remembered the days of thy youth, but hast fretted me in all these things; behold, therefore I also will recompense thy way upon thine head, saith the Lord GOD: and thou shalt no...
And hath not eaten upon the mountains, neither hath lifted up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, neither hath defiled his neighbour’s wife, neither hath come near to a menstruous woman,
The words of a talebearer are as wounds, and they go down into the innermost parts of the belly.
And as troops of robbers wait for a man, so the company of priests murder in the way by consent: for they commit lewdness.
Whoso privily slandereth his neighbour, him will I cut off: him that hath an high look and a proud heart will not I suffer.
Take ye heed every one of his neighbour, and trust ye not in any brother: for every brother will utterly supplant, and every neighbour will walk with slanders.
The words of a talebearer are as wounds, and they go down into the innermost parts of the belly.
They are all adulterers, as an oven heated by the baker, who ceaseth from raising after he hath kneaded the dough, until it be leavened.
In thy filthiness is lewdness: because I have purged thee, and thou wast not purged, thou shalt not be purged from thy filthiness any more, till I have caused my fury to rest upon thee.
They joined themselves also unto Baalpeor, and ate the sacrifices of the dead.
They are all grievous revolters, walking with slanders: they are brass and iron; they are all corrupters.
Thou shalt not raise a false report: put not thine hand with the wicked to be an unrighteous witness.
And I took my concubine, and cut her in pieces, and sent her throughout all the country of the inheritance of Israel: for they have committed lewdness and folly in Israel.
For we have found this man a pestilent fellow, and a mover of sedition among all the Jews throughout the world, and a ringleader of the sect of the Nazarenes:
That hath not eaten upon the mountains, neither hath lifted up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, hath not defiled his neighbour’s wife,
Neither can they prove the things whereof they now accuse me.
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