What Does Ezekiel 20:21 Mean?

“rebelled”

to be (causatively, make) bitter (or unpleasant); (figuratively) to rebel (or resist; causatively, to provoke)

“Notwithstanding 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

“not in my statutes”

a statute

not (the simple or abs. negation); by implication, no; often used with other particles

“against me they walked”

to walk (in a great variety of applications, literally and figuratively)

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

“my judgments”

properly, a verdict (favorable or unfavorable) pronounced judicially, especially a sentence or formal decree (human or (participant's) divine law, ind

not (the simple or abs. negation); by implication, no; often used with other particles

“neither kept”

properly, to hedge about (as with thorns), i.e., guard; generally, to protect, attend to, etc

“do”

to do or make, in the broadest sense and widest application

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

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

“do”

to do or make, in the broadest sense and widest application

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

“them which if a man”

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

“he shall even live”

to live; causatively to revive

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

“my sabbaths”

intermission, i.e (specifically) the sabbath

“in them they 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

“then I said”

to say (used with great latitude)

“I would pour out”

to spill forth (blood, a libation, liquid metal; or even a solid, i.e., to mound up); also (figuratively) to expend (life, soul, complaint, money, etc

“my fury”

heat; figuratively, anger, poison (from its fever)

above, over, upon, or against (yet always in this last relation with a downward aspect) in a great variety of applications

“upon them to accomplish”

to end, whether intransitive (to cease, be finished, perish) or transitive (to complete, prepare, consume)

“my anger”

properly, the nose or nostril; hence, the face, and occasionally a person; also (from the rapid breathing in passion) ire

“against them in the wilderness”

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