What Does Ezekiel 21:10 Mean?

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

“to make a sore”

properly, something slaughtered; hence, a beast (or meat, as butchered); abstractly butchery (or concretely, a place of slaughter)

“slaughter”

to slaughter (animals or men)

“It is sharpened”

to be (causatively, make) sharp or (figuratively) severe

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

to exist, i.e., be or become, come to pass (always emphatic, and not a mere copula or auxiliary)

“that it may glitter”

lightning; by analogy, a gleam; concretely, a flashing sword

to polish; by implication, to make bald (the head), to gall (the shoulder); also, to sharpen

“should”

desire (and so probably in proverbs 31:4); hence (by way of alternative) or, also if

“we then make mirth”

to be bright, i.e., cheerful

“the rod”

a scion, i.e., (literally) a stick (for punishing, writing, fighting, ruling, walking, etc.) or (figuratively) a clan

“of my son”

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

“it contemneth”

to spurn; also (intransitively) to disappear

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

“as every tree”

a tree (from its firmness); hence, wood (plural sticks)