What Does Ezekiel 36:12 Mean?

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

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

“Yea I will cause men”

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

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

“upon you even my people”

a people (as a congregated unit); specifically, a tribe (as those of israel); hence (collectively) troops or attendants; figuratively, a flock

“Israel”

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

“and they shall possess”

to occupy (by driving out previous tenants, and possessing in their place); by implication, to seize, to rob, to inherit; also to expel, to impoverish

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

“thee and thou shalt be their inheritance”

properly, something inherited, i.e., (abstractly) occupancy, or (concretely) an heirloom; generally an estate, patrimony or portion

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

“and thou shalt no more”

to add or augment (often adverbial, to continue to do a thing)

properly, iteration or continuance; used only adverbially (with or without preposition), again, repeatedly, still, more

“henceforth bereave”

properly, to miscarry, i.e., suffer abortion; by analogy, to bereave (literally or figuratively)