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Ezekiel 4:17 Interlinear

“ That they may want bread and water and be astonied one with another and consume away for their iniquity”

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Ezekiel 4 with commentary

Word-by-Word Analysis

#	Original	Strong's	English	Definition
1	לְמַ֥עַן	H4616		properly, heed, i.e., purpose; used only adverbially, on account of (as a motive or an aim), teleologically, in order that
2	יַחְסְר֖וּ	H2637	That they may want	to lack; by implication, to fail, want, lessen
3	לֶ֣חֶם	H3899	bread	food (for man or beast), especially bread, or grain (for making it)
4	וָמָ֑יִם	H4325	and water	water; figuratively, juice; by euphemism, urine, semen
5	וְנָשַׁ֙מּוּ֙	H8074	and be astonied	to stun (or intransitively, grow numb), i.e., devastate or (figuratively) stupefy (both usually in a passive sense)
6	אִ֣ישׁ	H376	one	a man as an individual or a male person; often used as an adjunct to a more definite term (and in such cases frequently not expressed in translation)
7	וְאָחִ֔יו	H251	with another	a brother (used in the widest sense of literal relationship and metaphorical affinity or resemblance [like h0001])
8	וְנָמַ֖קּוּ	H4743	and consume away	to melt; figuratively, to flow, dwindle, vanish
9	בַּעֲוֺנָֽם׃	H5771	for their iniquity	perversity, i.e., (moral) evil

Ezekiel 4:17 (current) That they may want bread and water and be astonied one with another and consume away for their iniquity