What Does Ezekiel 2:3 Mean?

“And he said”

to say (used with great latitude)

near, with or among; often in general, to

“thee to the children”

a son (as a builder of the family name), in the widest sense (of literal and figurative relationship, including grandson, subject, nation, quality or

“of man”

ruddy i.e., a human being (an individual or the species, mankind, etc.)

“I send”

to send away, for, or out (in a great variety of applications)

i

properly, self (but generally used to point out more definitely the object of a verb or preposition, even or namely)

near, with or among; often in general, to

“thee to the children”

a son (as a builder of the family name), in the widest sense (of literal and figurative relationship, including grandson, subject, nation, quality or

“of Israel”

he will rule as god; jisral, a symbolical name of jacob; also (typically) of his posterity

near, with or among; often in general, to

“nation”

a foreign nation; hence, a gentile; also (figuratively) a troop of animals, or a flight of locusts

“that hath rebelled”

to rebel

who, which, what, that; also (as an adverb and a conjunction) when, where, how, because, in order that, etc

“that hath rebelled”

to rebel

they (only used when emphatic)

“against me they and their fathers”

father, in a literal and immediate, or figurative and remote application

“have transgressed”

to break away (from just authority), i.e., trespass, apostatize, quarrel

as far (or long, or much) as, whether of space (even unto) or time (during, while, until) or degree (equally with)

“against me even unto this very”

a bone (as strong); by extension, the body; figuratively, the substance, i.e., (as pron.) selfsame

“day”

a 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

the masculine demonstrative pronoun, this or that