Ezekiel 4:5

For I have laid upon thee the years of their iniquity, according to the number of the days, three hundred and ninety days: so shalt thou bear the iniquity of the house of Israel.

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Word	Hebrew	Strong’s	Meaning
laid	נָתַ֤תִּֽי na.Ta.ti	H5414	to give · verb, qal perfect, 1st person common singular
years	שְׁנֵ֣י she.Nei	H8141	a year (as a revolution of time) · noun, common masculine plural construct
iniquity	עֲוֹנָ֔ם 'a.vo.Nam	H5771	perversity · noun, common masculine singular construct + pronominal suffix, 3rd person masculine plural
number	לְמִסְפַּ֣ר le.mis.Par	H4557	a number · preposition + noun, common masculine singular construct
days	יָמִ֔ים ya.Mim	H3117	a day (as the warm hours) · noun, common masculine plural absolute
three	שְׁלֹשׁ she.losh-	H7969	three · cardinal number, both genders singular construct
hundred	מֵא֥וֹת me.'ot	H3967	a hundred · cardinal number, feminine plural absolute
ninety	וְתִשְׁעִ֖ים ve.tish.'Im	H8673	ninety · conjunction + cardinal number, masculine plural absolute
days	י֑וֹם Yom	H3117	a day (as the warm hours) · noun, common masculine singular absolute
bear	וְנָשָׂ֖אתָ ve.na.Sa.ta	H5375	to lift · conjunction + verb, qal sequential perfect, 2nd person masculine singular
iniquity	עֲוֹ֥ן 'a.Von	H5771	perversity · noun, common masculine singular construct
house	בֵּֽית beit-	H1004	a house (in the greatest variation of applications · noun, common masculine singular construct
Israel	יִשְׂרָאֵֽל Yis.ra.'El	H3478	Jisrael · proper noun, a place name

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

Numbers 14:34 After the number of the days in which ye searched the land, even forty days, each day for a year, shall ye bear your iniquities, even forty…
Isaiah 53:6 All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry on Ezekiel 4:1-8

The prophet is here ordered to represent to himself and others by signs which would be proper and powerful to strike the fancy and to affect the mind, the siege of Jerusalem; and this amounted to a prediction. I. He was ordered to engrave a draught of Jerusalem upon a tile, Eze 4:1. It was Jerusalem's honour that while she kept her integrity God had graven her upon the palms of his hands (Isa 49:16), and the names of the tribes were engraven in precious stones on the breast-plate of the high priest; but, now that the faithful city has become a harlot, a worthless brittle tile or brick is thought good enough to portray it upon. This the prophet must lay before him, that the eye may affect the…

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Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Ezekiel 4:5

three hundred and ninety days--The three hundred ninety years of punishment appointed for Israel, and forty for Judah, cannot refer to the siege of Jerusalem. That siege is referred to in Eze 4:1-3, and in a sense restricted to the literal siege, but comprehending the whole train of punishment to be inflicted for their sin; therefore we read here merely of its sore pressure, not of its result. The sum of three hundred ninety and forty years is four hundred thirty, a period famous in the history of the covenant-people, being that of their sojourn in Egypt (Exo 12:40-41; Gal 3:17). The forty alludes to the forty years in the wilderness. Elsewhere (Deu 28:68; Hos 9:3), God threatened to bring t…

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Adam Clarke on Ezekiel 4:4

Lie thou also upon thy left side - It appears that all that is mentioned here and in the following verses was done, not in idea, but in fact. The prophet lay down on his left side upon a couch to which he was chained, Eze 4:6, for three hundred and ninety days; and afterwards he lay in the same manner, upon his right side, for forty days. And thus was signified the state of the Jews, and the punishment that was coming upon them. 1. The prophet himself represents the Jews. 2. His lying, their state of depression. 3. His being bound, their helplessness and captivity. 4. The days signify years, a day for a year; during which they were to bear their iniquity, or the temporal punishment due to th…

Dictionary and topics

Instruction · Lying on one si — Lying on one si
Pantomime · By Ezekiel — By Ezekiel
Prophets · Frequently in their actions, &c were made signs to the people — Frequently in their actions, &c were made signs to the people

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 4:5

Word by word — the Hebrew

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Commentary

Matthew Henry on Ezekiel 4:1-8

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Ezekiel 4:5

Adam Clarke on Ezekiel 4:4

Dictionary and topics

Ezekiel 4:5

Word by word — the Hebrew

Cross-references

Commentary

Matthew Henry on Ezekiel 4:1-8

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Ezekiel 4:5

Adam Clarke on Ezekiel 4:4

Dictionary and topics

John Gill on Ezekiel 4:5

John Calvin on Ezekiel 4:4-8

Tyndale Open Study Notes on Ezekiel 4:4-8

Rashi on Ezekiel 4:5