Hebrew Interlinear

Ezekiel 20:14 Interlinear

“But I wrought for my name's sake that it should not be polluted before the heathen I brought them out before”

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Ezekiel 20 with commentary

Word-by-Word Analysis

#	Original	Strong's	English	Definition
1	וָאֶעֱשֶׂ֖ה	H6213	But I wrought	to do or make, in the broadest sense and widest application
2	לְמַ֣עַן	H4616		properly, heed, i.e., purpose; used only adverbially, on account of (as a motive or an aim), teleologically, in order that
3	שְׁמִ֑י	H8034	for my name's	an appellation, as a mark or memorial of individuality; by implication honor, authority, character
4	לְבִלְתִּ֤י	H1115		properly, a failure of, i.e., (used only as a negative particle, usually with a prepositional prefix) not, except, without, unless, besides, because n
5	הֵחֵל֙	H2490	sake that it should not be polluted	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
6	לְעֵינֵיהֶֽם׃	H5869	before	an eye (literally or figuratively); by analogy, a fountain (as the eye of the landscape)
7	הַגּוֹיִ֔ם	H1471	the heathen	a foreign nation; hence, a gentile; also (figuratively) a troop of animals, or a flight of locusts
8	אֲשֶׁ֥ר	H834		who, which, what, that; also (as an adverb and a conjunction) when, where, how, because, in order that, etc
9	הוֹצֵאתִ֖ים	H3318	I brought them out	to go (causatively, bring) out, in a great variety of applications, literally and figuratively, direct and proxim
10	לְעֵינֵיהֶֽם׃	H5869	before	an eye (literally or figuratively); by analogy, a fountain (as the eye of the landscape)

Ezekiel 20:14 (current)But I wrought for my name's sake that it should not be polluted before the heathen I brought them out before