King James Version
Ezekiel 22:6 in the King James Version says “Behold, the princes of Israel, every one were in thee to their power to shed blood. power: Heb. arm” — study this verse from Ezekiel chapter 22 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“Behold, the princes of Israel, every one were in thee to their power to shed blood. power: Heb. arm”
Ezekiel 22:6 · KJV
Thou art become guilty in thy blood that thou hast shed; and hast defiled thyself in thine idols which thou hast made; and thou hast caused thy days to draw near, and art come even unto thy years: therefore have I made thee a reproach unto the heathen, and a mocking to all countries.
Those that be near, and those that be far from thee, shall mock thee, which art infamous and much vexed. infamous: Heb. polluted of name, much in vexation
Behold, the princes of Israel, every one were in thee to their power to shed blood. power: Heb. arm
In thee have they set light by father and mother: in the midst of thee have they dealt by oppression with the stranger: in thee have they vexed the fatherless and the widow. oppression: or, deceit
Thou hast despised mine holy things, and hast profaned my sabbaths.
KJV Study — Public Domain
“Behold the princes”
H5387properly, an exalted one, i.e., a king or sheik; also a rising mist
“of Israel”
H3478he will rule as god; jisral, a symbolical name of jacob; also (typically) of his posterity
“every one”
H376a man as an individual or a male person; often used as an adjunct to a more definite term (and in such cases frequently not expressed in translation)
“were in thee to their power”
H2220the arm (as stretched out), or (of animals) the foreleg; figuratively, force
to exist, i.e., be or become, come to pass (always emphatic, and not a mere copula or auxiliary)
properly, heed, i.e., purpose; used only adverbially, on account of (as a motive or an aim), teleologically, in order that
“to shed”
H8210to 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
“blood”
H1818blood (as that which when shed causes death) of man or an animal; by analogy, the juice of the grape; figuratively (especially in the plural) bloodshe
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