Ezekiel 24:21
Old Testament • 21 words with Strong's data
"Speak unto the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will profane my sanctuary, the excellency of your strength, the desire of your eyes, and that which your soul pitieth; and your sons and your daughters whom ye have left shall fall by the sword."
Word-by-Word Analysis
דָבַר
dâbar
perhaps properly, to arrange; but used figuratively (of words), to speak; rarely (in a destructive sense) to subdue
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
אָמַר
ʼâmar
to say (used with great latitude)
יְהֹוָה
Yᵉhôvâh
Jehovah, Jewish national name of God
אֱלֹהִים
ʼĕlôhîym
gods in the ordinary sense; but specifically used (in the plural thus, especially with the article) of the supreme God; occasionally applied by way of...
רָאָה
râʼâh
to see, literally or figuratively (in numerous applications, direct and implied, transitive, intransitive and causative)
חָלַל
châlal
properly, to bore, i.e. (by implication) to wound, to dissolve; figuratively, to profane (a person, place or thing), to break (one's word), to begin (...
מִקְדָּשׁ
miqdâsh
a consecrated thing or place, especially, a palace, sanctuary (whether of Jehovah or of idols) or asylum
גָּאוֹן
gâʼôwn
{arrogance or majesty; by implication, (concretely) ornament}
כֹּחַ
kôach
vigor, literally (force, in a good or a bad sense) or figuratively (capacity, means, produce); also (from its hardiness) a large lizard
תַּאֲוָה
taʼăvâh
a longing; by implication, a delight (subjectively, satisfaction, objectively, a charm)
עַיִן
ʻayin
an eye (literally or figuratively); by analogy, a fountain (as the eye of the landscape)
נֶפֶשׁ
nephesh
properly, a breathing creature, i.e. animal of (abstractly) vitality; used very widely in a literal, accommodated or figurative sense (bodily or menta...
רָחַם
râcham
to fondle; by implication, to love, especially to compassionate
בֵּן
bên
a son (as a builder of the family name), in the widest sense (of literal and figurative relationship, including grandson, subject, nation, quality or ...
בַּת
bath
a daughter (used in the same wide sense as other terms of relationship, literally and figuratively)
שָׁאַר
shâʼar
properly, to swell up, i.e. be (causatively, make) redundant
נָפַל
nâphal
to fall, in a great variety of applications (intransitive or causative, literal or figurative)
חֶרֶב
chereb
drought; also a cutting instrument (from its destructive effect), as a knife, sword, or other sharp implement
Key Terms in This Verse
רָחַם râcham
to fondle; by implication, to love, especially to compassionate
Study H7355 →גָּאוֹן gâʼôwn
{arrogance or majesty; by implication, (concretely) ornament}
Study H1347 →חָלַל châlal
properly, to bore, i.e. (by implication) to wound, to dissolve; figuratively, to profane (a person, place or thing), to break (one's word), to begin (as if by an 'opening wedge'); to play (the flute)
Study H2490 →תַּאֲוָה taʼăvâh
a longing; by implication, a delight (subjectively, satisfaction, objectively, a charm)
Study H8378 →מִקְדָּשׁ miqdâsh
a consecrated thing or place, especially, a palace, sanctuary (whether of Jehovah or of idols) or asylum
Study H4720 →כֹּחַ kôach
vigor, literally (force, in a good or a bad sense) or figuratively (capacity, means, produce); also (from its hardiness) a large lizard
Study H3581 →נָפַל nâphal
to fall, in a great variety of applications (intransitive or causative, literal or figurative)
Study H5307 →בַּת bath
a daughter (used in the same wide sense as other terms of relationship, literally and figuratively)
Study H1323 →חֶרֶב chereb
drought; also a cutting instrument (from its destructive effect), as a knife, sword, or other sharp implement
Study H2719 →Cross References
And the company shall stone them with stones, and dispatch them with their swords; they shall slay their sons and their daughters, and burn up their houses with fire.
Therefore will I do unto this house, which is called by my name, wherein ye trust, and unto the place which I gave to you and to your fathers, as I have done to Shiloh.
And I will set my jealousy against thee, and they shall deal furiously with thee: they shall take away thy nose and thine ears; and thy remnant shall fall by the sword: they shall take thy sons and th...
One thing have I desired of the LORD, that will I seek after; that I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the LORD, and to enquire in his temple.
Therefore I am full of the fury of the LORD; I am weary with holding in: I will pour it out upon the children abroad, and upon the assembly of young men together: for even the husband with the wife sh...
Son of man, behold, I take away from thee the desire of thine eyes with a stroke: yet neither shalt thou mourn nor weep, neither shall thy tears run down.
How amiable are thy tabernacles, O LORD of hosts!
Seek the LORD, and his strength: seek his face evermore.
The adversary hath spread out his hand upon all her pleasant things: for she hath seen that the heathen entered into her sanctuary, whom thou didst command that they should not enter into thy congrega...
And arms shall stand on his part, and they shall pollute the sanctuary of strength, and shall take away the daily sacrifice, and they shall place the abomination that maketh desolate.
They have cast fire into thy sanctuary, they have defiled by casting down the dwelling place of thy name to the ground.
Arise, O LORD, into thy rest; thou, and the ark of thy strength.
And he said unto them, Defile the house, and fill the courts with the slain: go ye forth. And they went forth, and slew in the city.
O GOD, the heathen are come into thine inheritance; thy holy temple have they defiled; they have laid Jerusalem on heaps.
But ye are they that forsake the LORD, that forget my holy mountain, that prepare a table for that troop, and that furnish the drink offering unto that number.
For death is come up into our windows, and is entered into our palaces, to cut off the children from without, and the young men from the streets.
Honour and majesty are before him: strength and beauty are in his sanctuary.
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