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Ezekiel 12:9

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) Ezekiel 12:9 appears in the Hebrew Old Testament. The text above is from the Westminster Leningrad Codex. Each word links to its Strong’s number, a concise gloss, and parsing drawn from the Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible morphology. Click any word for its full Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB) entry.
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Son of man, has not the house of Israel, the rebellious house, said to you, What do you?
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  • World English Bible Public Domain
    Son of man, has not the house of Israel, the rebellious house, said to you, What do you?
  • King James Version Public Domain
    Son of man, hath not the house of Israel, the rebellious house, said unto thee, What doest thou?
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
    “Son of man, is the house of Israel, that rebellious house, not asking, ‘What are you doing?’

unfoldingWord Literal Text — © unfoldingWord, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Word-aligned USFM3 via Door43 (git.door43.org/unfoldingWord/en_ult).

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Every available English version of this verse, each an independent rendering of the whole verse.

  • World English Bible Public Domain
    Son of man, has not the house of Israel, the rebellious house, said to you, What do you?
  • Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
    “Son of man, hasn’t the rebellious house of Israel asked you, ‘What are you doing?’
  • Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
    “Son of man, hasn’t the rebellious house of Israel asked you, ‘What are you doing?’
  • King James Version Public Domain
    Son of man, hath not the house of Israel, the rebellious house, said unto thee, What doest thou?
  • American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
    Son of man, hath not the house of Israel, the rebellious house, said unto thee, What doest thou?
  • Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
    Son of man, hath not the house of Israel, the rebellious house, said unto thee, What doest thou?
  • Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
    Sonne of man, hath not the house of Israel, the rebellious house, sayde vnto thee, What doest thou?
  • Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
    Son of man, hath not the house of Israel, the provoking house, said to thee: What art thou doing?
  • Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
    `Son of man, have they not said unto thee -- the house of Israel -- the rebellious house -- What art thou doing?
  • Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
    “Son of man, have they not said to you—the house of Israel—the house of rebellion—What are you doing?
  • Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
    “Son of man, is the house of Israel, that rebellious house, not asking, 'What are you doing?'
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
    “Son of man, is the house of Israel, that rebellious house, not asking, ‘What are you doing?’
  • Darby Bible Public Domain
    Son of man, hath not the house of Israel, the rebellious house, said unto thee, What doest thou?
  • World Messianic Bible Public Domain
    “Son of man, hasn’t the house of Israel, the rebellious house, said to you, ‘What are you doing?’
  • Webster's Bible Public Domain
    Son of man, hath not the house of Israel, the rebellious house, said to thee, What doest thou?
  • Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
    “Son of man, haven't those rebellious Israelites asked you, ‘What are you doing?’
  • Bible in Basic English Public Domain
    Son of man, has not Israel, the uncontrolled people, said to you, What are you doing?
  • JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
    'Son of man, hath not the house of Israel, the rebellious house, said unto thee: What doest thou?

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הַמֶּ֑רִי
mᵉrîy
H4805
“the · rebellion”
Particle, Definite Article + Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute
Part of Speech
Particle + Noun
Type
Common
Gender
Masculine
Number
Singular
State
Absolute
Full BDB Definition

Origin: from H4784

TWOT: 1242a

rebellion - rebellion - rebellious (in construct)
  1. בֶּן bên H1121 “son of” Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct
  2. אָדָ֕ם ʼâdâm H120 “man” Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute
  3. הֲלֹ֨א lôʼ H3808 “not” Particle, Interrogative + Particle, Negative
  4. אָמְר֥וּ ʼâmar H559 “to say” Verb, Qal, Perfect, 3rd Person, Common, Plural
  5. אֵלֶ֛יךָ ʼêl H413 “to · you” Preposition + Suffix, Personal, 2nd Person, Masculine, Singular
  6. בֵּ֥ית bayith H1004 “house of” Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct
  7. יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל Yisrâʼêl H3478 “Israel” Noun, Proper
  8. בֵּ֣ית bayith H1004 “house of” Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct
  9. מָ֖ה mâh H4100 “what” Particle, Interrogative
  10. אַתָּ֥ה ʼattâh H859 “you” Pronoun, Personal, 2nd Person, Masculine, Singular
  11. עֹשֶֽׂה ʻâsâh H6213 “doing” Verb, Qal, Participle Active, Masculine, Singular, Absolute

About this verse

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12
words
11
distinct lemmas
Prophets
section

Notable vocabulary

The rarest word here is הַמֶּ֑רִי rebellion H4805 — appearing just 23 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.

Shared distinctive vocabulary

הַמֶּ֑רִי rebellion H4805 occurs in 21 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:

Grammatical profile

  • 2 verbs
  • 6 nouns
  • 1 pronoun
  • 1 preposition
  • 2 particles

Verb forms

  • אָמְר֥וּ Qal · Perfect
  • עֹשֶֽׂה Qal · Participle Active

Repetition

A word recurs within this verse — often emphatic in Hebrew:

  • בֵּ֥ית house H1004 ×2

Hebrew & Septuagint length

In English translation the verse runs 18 words from the Hebrew and 18 from the Septuagint (LXX English) — the same length.

A rough comparison of the two English renderings, which tokenize alike — not a word-level alignment.

Word counts can differ between the Hebrew and the Greek without any difference in meaning — e.g. the Hebrew direct-object marker אֵת has no separate Greek word, and Greek often adds the article ὁ.

In the original languages it is 12 Hebrew tokens and 16 Greek tokens — but the two are counted differently (Hebrew bundles its prefixes and suffixes into one token; the Greek is in lemma form), so that isn’t a like-for-like length.

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Cross-references

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Topical passages linked to Ezekiel 12:9 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.

  • Ezekiel 17:12 Say now to the rebellious house, Don't you know what these things mean? tell them, Behold, the king of Babylon came to Jerusalem, and took the king of it, and the princes of it, and brought them to him to Babylon:
  • Ezekiel 24:19 The people said to me, Won't you tell us what these things are to us, that you do so?
  • Ezekiel 20:49 Then said I, Ah Lord Yahweh! they say of me, Isn't he a speaker of parables?
  • Ezekiel 2:5–8 They, whether they will hear, or whether they will forbear, (for they are a rebellious house), yet shall know that there has been a prophet among them.
  • Ezekiel 12:1–3 The word of Yahweh also came to me, saying,

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Hebrew and Greek witnesses Masoretic Hebrew ↔ Greek Septuagint

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Hebrew Ezekiel 12:9 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

בֶּן אָדָ֕ם הֲלֹ֨א אָמְר֥וּ אֵלֶ֛יךָ בֵּ֥ית יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל בֵּ֣ית הַמֶּ֑רִי מָ֖ה אַתָּ֥ה עֹשֶֽׂה

Son of man, has not the house of Israel, the rebellious house, said to you, What do you?

World English Bible · Public Domain

Greek LXX Ezekiel 12:9 Septuagint · lemma form

υἱός ἄνθρωπος οὐ εἶπον πρός σύ ὁ οἶκος ὁ ἰσραήλ οἶκος ὁ παραπικραίνω τίς σύ ποιέω

Son of man, have not the house of Israel, the provoking house, said to you, What do you?

LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) · Public Domain

Hebrew: Westminster Leningrad Codex (CC BY 4.0). Greek: Septuagint (public domain); English from LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) (Public Domain). How the Septuagint differs from the Hebrew →

Targum (Aramaic paraphrase)

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The Targum is the ancient Jewish Aramaic paraphrase of the Hebrew Scriptures — an interpretive translation, not the Hebrew text itself. Onkelos (literal) and Pseudo-Jonathan (expansive) render the Torah, and Jonathan the Prophets. Coverage is partial: where no permissively-licensed English translation exists for a verse, only the Aramaic is shown. This is verse-level text, not a word-by-word alignment to the Hebrew.

  1. Targum Jonathan Prophets (Joshua–Malachi)
    בַּר אָדָם הֲלָא אִם יֵימְרוּן לָךְ בֵּית יִשְׂרָאֵל עַמָא סַרְבָנָא מָא אַתְּ עָבֵיד:

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    Targum Jonathan — Aramaic: “Mikraot Gedolot” (public domain). English: “Sefaria Community Translation” (CC0 1.0 (public-domain dedication)); “London "Chaldee Paraphrase," 1871” (public domain). Text via Sefaria.

Commentary

Notes on Ezekiel 12:9 from classic Christian and Jewish commentators (each source and its license shown beneath its notes). The classic Christian expositions comment on the surrounding passage and are grouped to its opening verse, so a note may address several verses; the Jewish commentaries on the Tanakh (Rashi and others) are per-verse, so they appear only where the commentator wrote on this verse.

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Trapp's Complete Commentary

John Trapp

Eze 12:9 Son of man, hath not the house of Israel, the rebellious house, said unto thee, What doest thou?

Ver. 9. Hath not the house of Israel … said unto thee, What doest thou?] {a} q.d., Nothing less. So stupid they are, or so stubborn, that they never once asked any such question; or if they did, it was in a jeer, as who should say, You are a wise man to trouble yourself and us in this foolish and childish manner; a great deal of gravity sure you show therewhile.

{a} Quid sibi vult quod ita migras? Tu, habet emphasin. - Lavat.

John Trapp, A Commentary or Exposition upon All the Books of the Old and New Testament (1647–1656) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

Joseph Benson's Commentary

Eze 12:9-16. Hath not the house of Israel said — That is, I know they have said; as the words, “are they not written in the book of Chronicles, &c.?” mean, they are written there. What doest thou, &c. — They have inquired by way of derision and contempt, what these signs mean. Say — This burden concerneth the prince, &c. — Namely, King Zedekiah, chap. Eze 7:27. The prince that is among them shall bear upon his shoulder, &c. — Their king shall even be forced himself to carry what he can out of the city, in the dusk of the evening. They shall dig through the wall, &c. — His retinue shall make a private way to get out of the city, that they may not be discovered: see Jer 39:4; Jer 52:7. It is probable that the king and his companions fled through a breach made by themselves in the wall. Or the gate through which they fled might have been walled up during the siege. He shall cover his face, &c. — See note on Eze 12:6, and on 2Ki 25:7. My net also will I spread upon him — Though he thinks to escape, yet I will bring his enemies upon him, who shall encompass him, and stop his flight, as when a wild beast is entangled in a net. I will bring him to Babylon, yet shall he not see it — Neither the land nor the city; for his eyes will be put out at Riblah: see notes on 2Ki 25:5-7. I will scatter toward every wind all that are about him — Either the Egyptians, who came to assist him, or those that fled with him. And I will draw out the sword after them — I will cause them to be pursued by the sword and slain, whithersoever they go. But I will leave a few men — Hebrew, מספר אנשׁי, men of number: that is, populus numerabilis utpote parvus, a people easily numbered, as being few: Hor., Ars Poet., 50:206. From the sword &c., that they may declare all their abominations — May confess that they were justly punished for their idolatries and immoralities: or that they may declare the cause (namely, their heinous wickedness) why the city of Jerusalem, and the temple dedicated to Jehovah there, were delivered up to destruction, and thereby may justify my proceedings. And they shall know that I am the Lord — Namely, the Chaldeans shall know it. See how God brings good out of evil! The dispersion of sinners, who had done God much dishonour and disservice in their own country, proves the dispersion of penitents, who shall do him much honour and service in other countries.

Joseph Benson's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments (1811–1818) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

Geneva Bible (1599)

Geneva Bible translators

Do not they deride thy doings?

Geneva Bible (1599) marginal notes — public domain. Text via Bolls.life.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown

What doest thou?--They ask not in a docile spirit, but making a jest of his proceedings.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown — Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.

John Gill's Exposition

Say, I am your sign,.... Which represents you, and shows what will befall you:

like as I have done, so shall it be done unto them; as he had carried out his stuff, and had removed it from one place to another, so they should be carried away out of their own land into a foreign country, as follows:

they shall remove, and go into captivity; the Babylonish captivity.

John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible (1746–1763) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.

Matthew Poole's English Annotations

What! are none come to thee, are they all so stupid, and regardless of my word and judgments? Do none inquire that they may know and do what is necessary in their circumstances? Do not thy fellow captives think these actions are significative? Do they not ask whether they in Babylon, or their fellow citizens at Jerusalem, are concerned in what thou doest?

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible (1683–1685) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.

Lesson kit

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Ezekiel, in the Prophets, opens this verse with 12 words (11 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is mᵉrîy (“rebellion”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

  1. What does “rebellion” (mᵉrîy) contribute to the verse as a whole?
  2. How does Numbers 17:10, which shares the word «rebellion», read alongside this verse?
  3. What does the repetition of “house” (2× in this one verse) do in this verse?
  4. The translations on this page render this verse differently — a whole-verse word diff, not a word-by-word alignment. What might account for the different wordings?
  5. «אָמְר֥וּ» is a Qal Perfect verb. How does that grammatical form shape the action described?
  6. Compare how Trapp's Complete Commentary and Joseph Benson's Commentary read this verse. Where do they agree or differ?

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