Ezekiel 36:17

Son of man, when the house of Israel dwelt in their own land, they defiled it by their own way and by their doings: their way was before me as the uncleanness of a removed woman.

King James Version · Read in your translation · Open the Explore console

Word by word — the Hebrew

Word	Hebrew	Strong’s	Meaning
Son	בֶּן ben-	H1121	a son (as a builder of the family name) · noun, common masculine singular construct
man	אָדָ֗ם 'a.Dam	H120	ruddy i.e. a human being (an individual or the species · noun, common masculine singular absolute
house	בֵּ֤ית beit	H1004	a house (in the greatest variation of applications · noun, common masculine singular construct
Israel	יִשְׂרָאֵל֙ Yis.ra.'El	H3478	Jisrael · proper noun, a place name
dwelt	יֹשְׁבִ֣ים yo.she.Vim	H3427	properly · verb, qal active participle, masculine plural absolute
land	אַדְמָתָ֔ם 'ad.ma.Tam	H127	soil (from its general redness) · noun, common feminine singular construct + pronominal suffix, 3rd person masculine plural
defiled	וַיְטַמְּא֣וּ vay.ta.me.'U	H2930	to be foul · conjunction + verb, piel sequential imperfect, 3rd person masculine plural
way	בְּדַרְכָּ֖ם be.dar.Kam	H1870	a road (as trodden) · preposition + noun, common both genders singular construct + pronominal suffix, 3rd person masculine plural
doings	וּבַעֲלִֽילוֹתָ֑ם u.va.'a.li.lo.Tam	H5949	an exploit (of God) · conjunction + preposition + noun, common feminine plural construct + pronominal suffix, 3rd person masculine plural
way	דַרְכָּ֖ם dar.Kam	H1870	a road (as trodden) · noun, common both genders singular construct + pronominal suffix, 3rd person masculine plural
before	לְפָנָֽי le.fa.Nai	H6440	the face (as the part that turns) · preposition + noun, common masculine plural construct + pronominal suffix
uncleanness	כְּטֻמְאַת֙ ke.tum.'At	H2932	religious impurity · preposition + noun, common feminine singular construct
woman	הַנִּדָּ֔ה ha.ni.Dah	H5079	properly · definite article + noun, common feminine singular absolute

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890/1894), public domain; digitized by Open Scriptures (CC BY-SA). KJV word tagging: eBible.org (public domain). Original-language text, parsing and brief lexicon: STEPBible.org data from Tyndale House, Cambridge (CC BY 4.0).

Cross-references

Jeremiah 2:7 And I brought you into a plentiful country, to eat the fruit thereof and the goodness thereof; but when ye entered, ye defiled my land, and…
Numbers 35:33-34 So ye shall not pollute the land wherein ye are: for blood it defileth the land: and the land cannot be cleansed of the blood that is shed t…
Micah 2:10 Arise ye, and depart; for this is not your rest: because it is polluted, it shall destroy you, even with a sore destruction.
Leviticus 15:19-33 And if a woman have an issue, and her issue in her flesh be blood, she shall be put apart seven days: and whosoever toucheth her shall be un…
Isaiah 24:5 The earth also is defiled under the inhabitants thereof; because they have transgressed the laws, changed the ordinance, broken the everlast…
Jeremiah 16:18 And first I will recompense their iniquity and their sin double; because they have defiled my land, they have filled mine inheritance with t…
Leviticus 18:24-28 Defile not ye yourselves in any of these things: for in all these the nations are defiled which I cast out before you:
Psalms 106:37-38 Yea, they sacrificed their sons and their daughters unto devils,

Cross-references from OpenBible.info (CC BY), in the lineage of the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (public domain).

Commentary

Matthew Henry on Ezekiel 36:16-24

When God promised the poor captives a glorious return, in due time, to their own land, it was a great discouragement to their hopes that they were unworthy, utterly unworthy, of such a favour; therefore, to remove that discouragement, God here shows them that he would do it for them purely for his own name's sake, that he might be glorified in them and by them, that he might manifest and magnify his mercy and goodness, that attribute which of all others is most his glory. And, the restoration of that people being typical of our redemption by Christ, this is intended further to show that the ultimate end aimed at in our salvation, to which all the steps of it were made subservient, was the gl…

Read the whole note in the console

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Ezekiel 36:17

removed woman-- (Lev 15:19, &c.).

Adam Clarke on Ezekiel 36:17

When the house of Israel dwelt in their own land - Had they continued faithful to me, they had never been removed from it: but they polluted it with their crimes; and I abhorred the land on that account, and gave both them and it up to the destroyers.

John Gill on Ezekiel 36:17

Son of man, when the house of Israel dwelt in their own land,.... The land of Canaan, which the Lord their God gave unto them; a land abounding with all good things, where they dwelt in great ease, plenty, and prosperity; and which also was a holy land, peculiarly chosen of God for his worship and service: they defiled it by their own way and by their doings: by their sinful ways and evil works: sin is of a defiling nature; it defiles the bodies and souls of men; it defiles their own, and it defiles others; it defiles a land, and the inhabitants of it, and makes them loathsome and abominable to a pure and holy God: their way was before me, as the uncleanness of a removed woman: of a menstr…

Read the whole note in the console

Dictionary and topics

Menstruation · FIGURATIVE — FIGURATIVE

Dictionary: Easton's (1897) and Smith's (1863), public domain. Topics: Nave's Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey's Topical Textbook (1897), public domain. Both as parsed by NEUU (CC BY 4.0).

Ezekiel 36:17

Word by word — the Hebrew

Cross-references

Commentary

Matthew Henry on Ezekiel 36:16-24

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Ezekiel 36:17

Adam Clarke on Ezekiel 36:17

John Gill on Ezekiel 36:17

Dictionary and topics

Ezekiel 36:17

Word by word — the Hebrew

Cross-references

Commentary

Matthew Henry on Ezekiel 36:16-24

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Ezekiel 36:17

Adam Clarke on Ezekiel 36:17

John Gill on Ezekiel 36:17

Dictionary and topics

Tyndale Open Study Notes on Ezekiel 36:17

Rashi on Ezekiel 36:17