What Does Ezekiel 20:15 Mean?

properly, assemblage; used only adverbially also, even, yea, though; often repeated as correl. both...and

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“Yet also I lifted up”

to lift, in a great variety of applications, literal and figurative, absolute and relative

“my hand”

a hand (the open one [indicating power, means, direction, etc.], in distinction from h3709, the closed one); used (as noun, adverb, etc.) in a great v

“unto them in the wilderness”

a pasture (i.e., open field, whither cattle are driven); by implication, a desert

properly, a failure of, i.e., (used only as a negative particle, usually with a prepositional prefix) not, except, without, unless, besides, because n

“that I would not bring”

to go or come (in a wide variety of applications)

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

“of all lands”

the earth (at large, or partitively a land)

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

“which I had given”

to give, used with greatest latitude of application (put, make, etc.)

“them flowing”

to flow freely (as water), i.e., (specifically) to have a (sexual) flux; figuratively, to waste away; also to overflow

“with milk”

milk (as the richness of kine)

“and honey”

honey (from its stickiness); by analogy, syrup

“which is the glory”

a gazelle (as beautiful)

he (she or it); only expressed when emphatic or without a verb; also (intensively) self, or (especially with the article) the same; sometimes (as demo

properly, the whole; hence, all, any or every (in the singular only, but often in a plural sense)

“of all lands”

the earth (at large, or partitively a land)