Hebrew Interlinear

Ezekiel 38:16 Interlinear

And thou shalt come up against my people of Israel as a cloud to cover the land it shall be in the latter days and I will bring the land may know that the heathen me when I shall be sanctified before their eyes in thee O Gog

Word-by-Word Analysis

#OriginalStrong'sEnglishDefinition
1וְעָלִ֙יתָ֙H5927And thou shalt come upto ascend, intransitively (be high) or actively (mount); used in a great variety of senses, primary and secondary, literal and figurative
2עַלH5921above, over, upon, or against (yet always in this last relation with a downward aspect) in a great variety of applications
3עַמִּ֣יH5971against my peoplea people (as a congregated unit); specifically, a tribe (as those of israel); hence (collectively) troops or attendants; figuratively, a flock
4יִשְׂרָאֵ֔לH3478of Israelhe will rule as god; jisral, a symbolical name of jacob; also (typically) of his posterity
5כֶּֽעָנָ֖ןH6051as a clouda cloud (as covering the sky), i.e., the nimbus or thunder-cloud
6לְכַסּ֣וֹתH3680to coverproperly, to plump, i.e., fill up hollows; by implication, to cover (for clothing or secrecy)
7אַרְצִ֔יH776the landthe earth (at large, or partitively a land)
8בְּאַחֲרִ֨יתH319it shall be in the latterthe last or end, hence, the future; also posterity
9הַיָּמִ֜יםH3117daysa day (as the warm hours), whether literal (from sunrise to sunset, or from one sunset to the next), or figurative (a space of time defined by an asso
10תִּֽהְיֶ֗הH1961to exist, i.e., be or become, come to pass (always emphatic, and not a mere copula or auxiliary)
11וַהֲבִאוֹתִ֙יךָ֙H935and I will bringto go or come (in a wide variety of applications)
12עַלH5921above, over, upon, or against (yet always in this last relation with a downward aspect) in a great variety of applications
13אַרְצִ֔יH776the landthe earth (at large, or partitively a land)
14לְמַעַן֩H4616properly, heed, i.e., purpose; used only adverbially, on account of (as a motive or an aim), teleologically, in order that
15דַּ֨עַתH3045may knowto know (properly, to ascertain by seeing); used in a great variety of senses, figuratively, literally, euphemistically and inferentially (including o
16הַגּוֹיִ֜םH1471that the heathena foreign nation; hence, a gentile; also (figuratively) a troop of animals, or a flight of locusts
17אֹתִ֗יH853properly, self (but generally used to point out more definitely the object of a verb or preposition, even or namely)
18בְּהִקָּדְשִׁ֥יH6942me when I shall be sanctifiedto be (causatively, make, pronounce or observe as) clean (ceremonially or morally)
19בְךָ֛H0
20לְעֵינֵיהֶ֖םH5869before their eyesan eye (literally or figuratively); by analogy, a fountain (as the eye of the landscape)
21גּֽוֹג׃H1463in thee O Goggog, the name of an israelite, also of some nothern nation

Verse Context

Ezekiel 38:15And thou shalt come from thy place parts out of the north people...
Ezekiel 38:16 (current)And thou shalt come up against my people of Israel as a cloud to cover the land it shall be in the latter days and I will bring the land may know that the heathen me when I shall be sanctified before their eyes in thee O Gog
Ezekiel 38:17 Thus saith the Lord GOD ...

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