What Does Ezekiel 20:22 Mean?

“Nevertheless I withdrew”

to turn back (hence, away) transitively or intransitively, literally or figuratively (not necessarily with the idea of return to the starting point);

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

“mine 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

“and wrought”

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

properly, heed, i.e., purpose; used only adverbially, on account of (as a motive or an aim), teleologically, in order that

“for my name's”

an appellation, as a mark or memorial of individuality; by implication honor, authority, character

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

“sake that it should not be 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

“in the sight”

an eye (literally or figuratively); by analogy, a fountain (as the eye of the landscape)

“of the heathen”

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

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

“I brought them forth”

to go (causatively, bring) out, in a great variety of applications, literally and figuratively, direct and proxim

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

“in the sight”

an eye (literally or figuratively); by analogy, a fountain (as the eye of the landscape)