Ezekiel 4:17

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

that they may want bread and water, and be dismayed one with another, and pine away in their iniquity.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

לְמַ֥עַן יַחְסְר֖וּ לֶ֣חֶם וָמָ֑יִם וְנָשַׁ֙מּוּ֙ אִ֣ישׁ וְאָחִ֔יו וְנָמַ֖קּוּ בַּעֲוֺנָֽם׃

Transliteration

So-that yaḥsᵊrû leḥem and-māyim and-nāšammû ʾîš and-brother-his and-nāmaqqû in-ʿăwōnām

Grammar Details

*lᵊmaʿan*: conjunction - so that/in order that
*yaḥsᵊrû*: verb, qal imperfect, 3rd person, masculine, plural - they will lack
*leḥem*: noun, masculine, singular - bread
*māyim*: noun, masculine, plural - water
*nāšammû*: verb, niphal perfect, 3rd person, common, plural - they will be desolate
*ʾîš*: noun, masculine, singular - man/each one
*ʾāḥîw*: noun, masculine, singular with 3rd person masculine singular suffix - his brother
*nāmaqqû*: verb, niphal perfect, 3rd person, common, plural - they will rot away
*ʿăwōnām*: noun, masculine, singular with 3rd person masculine plural suffix - their iniquity

Word Meanings

*yaḥsᵊrû*: lack/be deprived of/be in need of
*nāšammû*: be desolate/be appalled/be horrified
*nāmaqqû*: rot away/waste away/pine away
*ʿăwōnām*: their iniquity/their guilt/their punishment

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Referenced Verses

Lev 26:39 : 39 And they that are left of you shall pine away in their iniquity in your enemies' lands; and also in the iniquities of their fathers shall they pine away with them.
Ezek 24:23 : 23 And your tires shall be upon your heads, and your shoes upon your feet: ye shall not mourn nor weep; but ye shall pine away in your iniquities, and moan one toward another.
Ezek 33:10 : 10 And thou, son of man, say unto the house of Israel: Thus ye speak, saying, Our transgressions and our sins are upon us, and we pine away in them; how then can we live?

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