Ezekiel 14:2

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex)

English Translation

The word of Yahweh came to me, saying,

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דְבַר

dâbâr

H1697

“word of”

Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct

Appears 1,455× in the Hebrew Bible
First appears at Genesis 11:1

Full BDB Definition

Origin: from H1696

TWOT: 399a

speech, word, speaking, thing - speech - saying, utterance - word, words - business, occupation, acts, matter, case, something, manner

About this verse

These counts appear in no published source. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged text and Lemma’s own curated glosses. What Lemma adds →

5: words
5: distinct lemmas
Prophets: section

Grammatical profile

2 verbs
2 nouns
1 preposition

Verb forms

וַיְהִ֥י Qal · Sequential Imperfect
לֵאמֹֽר Qal · Infinitive Construct

Hebrew & Septuagint length

In English translation the verse runs 8 words from the Hebrew and 10 from the Septuagint (LXX English) — closely comparable.

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 5 Hebrew tokens and 7 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.

Cross-references

Topical passages linked to Ezekiel 14:2 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.

Amos 3:7 Surely the Lord Yahweh will do nothing, Unless he reveals his secret to his servants the prophets.
1 Kings 14:4 Jeroboam's wife did so, and arose, and went to Shiloh, and came to the house of Ahijah. Now Ahijah could not see; for his eyes were set by reason of his age.

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Hebrew and Greek witnesses Masoretic Hebrew ↔ Greek Septuagint

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Hebrew Ezekiel 14:2 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

וַיְהִ֥י דְבַר יְהוָ֖ה אֵלַ֥י לֵאמֹֽר

The word of Yahweh came to me, saying,

World English Bible · Public Domain

Greek LXX Ezekiel 14:2 Septuagint · lemma form

καί γίγνομαι λόγος κύριος πρός ἐγώ λέγω

And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,

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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Targum Jonathan Prophets (Joshua–Malachi)

וַהֲוָה פִּתְגַם נְבוּאָה מִן קֳדָם יְיָ עִמִי לְמֵימָר:

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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 14:2 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 14:2 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,

Ver. 2. And the word of the Lord came.] Lest the prophet, seeing these seniors coming thus unto him, should favour them too far, God uncaseth them, as he doth mostly such gross hypocrites in this present life; Jeroboam and his wife, Ananias and Sapphira, Simon Magus, and others for instance. How else indeed should the name of such wicked wretches rot as they must? {Pro 10:24-29}

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 14:2-3. And the word of the Lord came unto me — To acquaint me with the real character of these men, and what I should say to them. These men have set up their idols in their hearts — They are not only inclined to idolatry in their hearts, but they have actually set up idols and worshipped them. It seems, however, that their idolatry consisted, not in entirely deserting, but in corrupting and polluting the service of the true God, intermixing it with foreign worship and superstitions, learned from the heathen. And have set up the stumbling-block, &c. — Their idols, which were both the object of their sin, and the occasion of their ruin. Should I be inquired of at all by them? — Shall I give any counsel, or any answer concerning that of which they inquire of me, to such hypocrites as these?

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

John Gill's Exposition

And the word of the Lord came unto me,.... While the elders were sitting before him, and whispered secretly and powerfully the following things in his ears:

saying; as follows:

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

Lesson kit

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Ezekiel, in the Prophets, opens this verse with 5 words (5 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is dâbâr (“word”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

The word dâbâr carries the sense “word.” How does it shape the verse?
Amos 3:7 shares this passage’s theme. How do the two illuminate each other?
These translations render this verse differently. What is at stake in choosing one wording over another?
The verb «וַיְהִ֥י» is Qal Sequential Imperfect. How does its form color the action?
Reading how Trapp's Complete Commentary and Joseph Benson's Commentary read this verse, where do the two commentators agree and where do they part?

Things to notice

This verse counts 5 Hebrew ↔ 7 Greek words.
These translations choose different wording for 2 words in this verse.
5 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 5 words in this verse.