Ezekiel 5:15
Old Testament • 15 words with Strong's data
"So it shall be a reproach and a taunt, an instruction and an astonishment unto the nations that are round about thee, when I shall execute judgments in thee in anger and in fury and in furious rebukes. I the LORD have spoken it."
Word-by-Word Analysis
חֶרְפָּה
cherpâh
contumely, disgrace, the pudenda
שְׁנִינָה
shᵉnîynâh
something pointed, i.e. a gibe
מוּסָר
mûwçâr
properly, chastisement; figuratively, reproof, warning or instruction; also restraint
שַׁמָּה
shammâh
ruin; by implication, consternation
גּוֹי
gôwy
a foreign nation; hence, a Gentile; also (figuratively) a troop of animals, or a flight of locusts
נָקַף
nâqaph
to strike with more or less violence (beat, fell, corrode); by implication (of attack) to knock together, i.e. surround or circulate
סָבִיב
çâbîyb
(as noun) a circle, neighbour, or environs; but chiefly (as adverb, with or without preposition) around
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...
אַף
ʼaph
properly, the nose or nostril; hence, the face, and occasionally a person; also (from the rapid breathing in passion) ire
חֵמָה
chêmâh
heat; figuratively, anger, poison (from its fever)
חֵמָה
chêmâh
heat; figuratively, anger, poison (from its fever)
תּוֹכֵחָה
tôwkêchâh
chastisement; figuratively (by words) correction, refutation, proof (even in defence)
יְהֹוָה
Yᵉhôvâh
Jehovah, Jewish national name of God
דָבַר
dâbar
perhaps properly, to arrange; but used figuratively (of words), to speak; rarely (in a destructive sense) to subdue
Key Terms in This Verse
תּוֹכֵחָה tôwkêchâh
chastisement; figuratively (by words) correction, refutation, proof (even in defence)
Study H8433 →עָשָׂה ʻâsâh
to do or make, in the broadest sense and widest application
Study H6213 →מוּסָר mûwçâr
properly, chastisement; figuratively, reproof, warning or instruction; also restraint
Study H4148 →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 →אַף ʼaph
properly, the nose or nostril; hence, the face, and occasionally a person; also (from the rapid breathing in passion) ire
Study H639 →Cross References
And I will execute great vengeance upon them with furious rebukes; and they shall know that I am the LORD, when I shall lay my vengeance upon them.
Then will I cut off Israel out of the land which I have given them; and this house, which I have hallowed for my name, will I cast out of my sight; and Israel shall be a proverb and a byword among all...
Now all these things happened unto them for ensamples: and they are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the world are come.
With my soul have I desired thee in the night; yea, with my spirit within me will I seek thee early: for when thy judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world will learn righteousness.
God is jealous, and the LORD revengeth; the LORD revengeth, and is furious; the LORD will take vengeance on his adversaries, and he reserveth wrath for his enemies.
We are become a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and derision to them that are round about us.
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