What Does Ezekiel 20:38 Mean?

“And I will purge out”

to clarify (i.e., brighten), examine, select

properly, a part of; hence (prepositionally), from or out of in many senses

“from among you the rebels”

to rebel

“and them that transgress”

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

“out of the country”

the earth (at large, or partitively a land)

“where they sojourn”

a temporary abode; by extension, a permanent residence

“against me I will bring 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)

near, with or among; often in general, to

“into the land”

soil (from its general redness)

“of Israel”

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

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

“and they shall not enter”

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

“and ye shall know”

to know (properly, to ascertain by seeing); used in a great variety of senses, figuratively, literally, euphemistically and inferentially (including o

(by implication) very widely used as a relative conjunction or adverb (as below); often largely modified by other particles annexed

i

“that I am the LORD”

(the) self-existent or eternal; jeho-vah, jewish national name of god