Ezekiel 18:11

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) Ezekiel 18:11 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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and who does not any of those [duties], but even has eaten on the mountains, and defiled his neighbor's wife,
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  • World English Bible Public Domain
    and who does not any of those [duties], but even has eaten on the mountains, and defiled his neighbor's wife,
  • King James Version Public Domain
    And that doeth not any of those duties, but even hath eaten upon the mountains, and defiled his neighbour's wife,
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
    (though his father has not done any of these things). He eats upon the mountains and he defiles his neighbor’s wife, what can be said about him?

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  • World English Bible Public Domain
    and who does not any of those [duties], but even has eaten on the mountains, and defiled his neighbor's wife,
  • Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
    though the father has done none of them: Indeed, the son eats at the mountain and defiles his neighbor’s wife.
  • Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
    though the father has done none of them: Indeed, the son eats at the mountain and defiles his neighbor’s wife.
  • King James Version Public Domain
    And that doeth not any of those duties, but even hath eaten upon the mountains, and defiled his neighbour's wife,
  • American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
    and that doeth not any of those `duties', but even hath eaten upon the mountains, and defiled his neighbor's wife,
  • Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
    and that doeth not any of those duties, but even hath eaten upon the mountains, and defiled his neighbour’s wife,
  • Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
    Though he doe not all these things, but either hath eaten vpon the mountaines, or defiled his neighbours wife,
  • Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
    Though he doth not all these things, but that eateth upon the mountains, and that defileth his neighbour's wife:
  • Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
    And he all those hath not done, For even on the mountains he hath eaten, And the wife of his neighbour he hath defiled,
  • Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
    And he has not done all those, || For he has even eaten on the mountains, || And he has defiled his neighbor’s wife,
  • Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
    (though his father has not done any of these things). He eats upon the mountains and he defiles his neighbor's wife, what can be said about him?
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
    (though his father has not done any of these things). He eats upon the mountains and he defiles his neighbor’s wife, what can be said about him?
  • Darby Bible Public Domain
    and that doeth not any of those [duties], but also hath eaten upon the mountains, and defiled his neighbour's wife,
  • World Messianic Bible Public Domain
    or who does not do any of those things but has eaten at the mountain shrines and defiled his neighbor’s wife,
  • Webster's Bible Public Domain
    And that doeth not any of those duties, but even hath eaten upon the mountains, and defiled his neighbor's wife,
  • Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
    even though the father doesn't act like that at all. The son goes to the pagan shrines in the mountains to eat a religious meal. He has sex with someone else's wife.
  • Bible in Basic English Public Domain
    Who has taken flesh with the blood as food, and has had connection with his neighbour's wife,
  • JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
    whereas he himself had not done any of these things, for he hath even eaten upon the mountains, and defiled his neighbour's wife,

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טִמֵּֽא
ṭâmêʼ
H2930
“to be unclean”
Verb, Piel, Perfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular
Part of Speech
Verb
Stem
Piel
Form
Perfect
Person
3rd Person
Gender
Masculine
Number
Singular
Full BDB Definition

Origin: a primitive root

TWOT: 809

to be unclean, become unclean, become impure - (Qal) to be or become unclean - sexually - religiously - ceremonially - (Niphal) - to defile oneself, be defiled - sexually - by idolatry - ceremonially - to be regarded as unclean - (Piel) - to defile - sexually - religiously - ceremonially - to pronounce unclean, declare unclean (ceremonially) - to profane (God's name) - (Pual) to be defiled - (Hithpael) to be unclean - (Hothpael) to be defiled
  1. וְה֕וּא hûwʼ H1931 “and · he” Conjunction + Pronoun, Personal, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular
  2. אֶת ʼêth H853 “-” Particle, Direct Object
  3. כָּל kôl H3605 “all of” Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct
  4. אֵ֖לֶּה ʼêl-leh H428 “these” Pronoun, Demonstrative, Common, Plural
  5. לֹ֣א lôʼ H3808 “not” Particle, Negative
  6. עָשָׂ֑ה ʻâsâh H6213 “to do” Verb, Qal, Perfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular
  7. כִּ֣י kîy H3588 “that” Conjunction
  8. גַ֤ם gam H1571 “also” Adverb
  9. אֶל ʼêl H413 “to” Preposition
  10. הֶֽהָרִים֙ har H2022 “the · mountains” Particle, Definite Article + Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Absolute
  11. אָכַ֔ל ʼâkal H398 “to eat” Verb, Qal, Perfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular
  12. וְאֶת ʼêth H853 “and · -” Conjunction + Particle, Direct Object
  13. אֵ֥שֶׁת ʼishshâh H802 “woman of” Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Construct
  14. רֵעֵ֖הוּ rêaʻ H7453 “friend · his” Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct + Suffix, Personal, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular

About this verse

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15
words
14
distinct lemmas
Prophets
section

Grammatical profile

  • 3 verbs
  • 4 nouns
  • 2 pronouns
  • 1 preposition
  • 1 conjunction
  • 1 adverb
  • 3 particles

Verb forms

  • עָשָׂ֑ה Qal · Perfect
  • אָכַ֔ל Qal · Perfect
  • טִמֵּֽא Piel · Perfect

Hebrew & Septuagint length

In English translation the verse runs 20 words from the Hebrew and 24 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 15 Hebrew tokens and 23 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

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Topical passages linked to Ezekiel 18:11 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.

  • 1 Kings 13:8 The man of God said to the king, If you will give me half your house, I will not go in with you, neither will I eat bread nor drink water in this place;
  • 1 Kings 13:22 but came back, and have eaten bread and drunk water in the place of which he said to you, Eat no bread, and drink no water; your body shall not come to the tomb of your fathers.
  • Ezekiel 18:6–7 and has not eaten on the mountains, neither has lifted up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, neither has defiled his neighbor's wife, neither has come near to a woman in her impurity,
  • Ezekiel 18:15 who has not eaten on the mountains, neither has lifted up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, has not defiled his neighbor's wife,
  • Matthew 7:21–27 Not everyone who says to me, 'Lord, Lord,' will enter into the Kingdom of Heaven; but he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven.
  • Luke 11:28 But he said, "On the contrary, blessed are those who hear the word of God, and keep it."
  • John 13:17 If you know these things, blessed are you if you do them.
  • John 15:14 You are my friends, if you do whatever I command you.
  • Philippians 4:9 The things which you learned, received, heard, and saw in me: do these things, and the God of peace will be with you.
  • James 2:17 Even so faith, if it has no works, is dead in itself.
  • 1 John 3:22 and whatever we ask, we receive from him, because we keep his commandments and do the things that are pleasing in his sight.
  • Revelation 22:14 Blessed are those who do his commandments, that they may have the right to the tree of life, and may enter in by the gates into the city.

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Hebrew and Greek witnesses Masoretic Hebrew ↔ Greek Septuagint

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Hebrew Ezekiel 18:11 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

וְה֕וּא אֶת כָּל אֵ֖לֶּה לֹ֣א עָשָׂ֑ה כִּ֣י גַ֤ם אֶל הֶֽהָרִים֙ אָכַ֔ל וְאֶת אֵ֥שֶׁת רֵעֵ֖הוּ טִמֵּֽא

and who does not any of those [duties], but even has eaten on the mountains, and defiled his neighbor's wife,

World English Bible · Public Domain

Greek LXX Ezekiel 18:11 Septuagint · lemma form

ἐν ὁ ὁδός ὁ πατήρ αὐτός ὁ δίκαιος οὐ πορεύομαι ἀλλά καί ἐπί ὁ ὄρος ἐσθίω καί ὁ γυνή ὁ πλησίον αὐτός μιαίνω

who has not walked in the way of his righteous father, but has even eaten upon the mountains, and has defiled his neighbor's wife,

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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  1. Targum Jonathan Prophets (Joshua–Malachi)
    וְהוּא יַת כָּל אִלֵין לָא עֲבַד אֱלָהֵין בְּטוּרַיָא פְּלַח לְטַעֲוָתָא וְיַת אִתַּת חַבְרֵיהּ סָאֵיב:

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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 18:11 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 18:11 And that doeth not any of those [duties], but even hath eaten upon the mountains, and defiled his neighbour’s wife,

Ver. 11. And that doth not any of these duties.] Bare omissions may undo a man. Not robbing only, but the not relieving of the poor, was the rich man’s ruin.

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.

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible

Daniel D. Whedon

11. That doeth not any of those duties — “These things” and “those duties” are exactly the same word. This man has done the things the just man would not do (Eze_18:6-8), and has not done the things the just man would do (Eze_18:8-9). After this general statement the enumeration of his crimes of commission begins. There is a division of thought in the middle of Eze_18:11 which is not indicated by the English punctuation.

Daniel D. Whedon (gen. ed.), Commentary on the Old and New Testaments (1874–1909) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown

those duties--which his father did (Eze 18:5, Eze 18:9).

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

The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne

11. and that doeth not] Fairer: and he hath not done any of these things, but even hath eaten, &c. The things which he hath not done are those in Eze_18:6-9 regarded as positive commandments. The words naturally refer to the wicked son. They are incompatible with those in the end of Eze_18:10, if these be said of the son. Syr., feeling the incompatibility, omits. It is easier, however, to omit the words in Eze_18:10, as a gloss from Lev_4:2, because the words “but even hath eaten” require a negative clause before them.

The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges (gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne; Cambridge University Press, 1878–1918) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

John Gill's Exposition

Hath given forth upon usury, and hath taken increase,.... Contrary to the law of God; See Gill on Eze 18:8;

shall he then live? by virtue of his father's righteousness and goodness, free from calamities, and in the quiet possession of the land of Israel, and the good things of it:

he shall not live; but go into captivity, and be destitute of the good things of life he has enjoyed; and, without repentance, shall never have eternal life:

he hath done all these abominations; before mentioned; theft, murder, idolatry, adultery, oppression of the poor, and usury, sins against both tables of the law:

he shall surely die; the death of affliction, or undergo temporal punishment; and not only die corporeally, but eternally too, if grace prevent not: "in dying he shall die" (f); as in the Hebrew text; he shall die both the first and second death; his father's goodness shall not save him from either:

his blood shall be upon him; or "bloods" (g); the innocent blood he has shed, which he must answer for being guilty of, and shall not escape righteous judgment, and his own blood, the destruction of himself; he shall be the cause of his own ruin, and bring just punishment on his own head.

(f) "moriendo morietur", Pagninus, Montanus. (g) "sanguines ejus", Montanus.

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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

In the former verse sins which are violations of the law by a man’s doing the evil which was forbidden, in the former part of this verse the sins which are omissions of good required, are mentioned.

Doeth not any; neglects all, frames not to do them. Of those duties: see Eze 18:6-8.

Hath eaten upon the mountains, and defiled his neighbour’s wife: Eze 18:6.

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

The Pulpit Commentary

The word "duties" is not in the Hebrew, but is legitimately introduced as expressing Ezekiel"s meaning, where the mere pronoun by itself would have been ambiguous. In English we might say, "He does these things: he does not do those;" but this does not fall in with the Hebrew idiom.

The Pulpit Commentary (1880–1919), ed. H.D.M. Spence-Jones & Joseph S. Exell — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

Rashi

Rabbi Shlomo Yitzchaki (Rashi)

And he does not do all these All these good deeds that his father did.

Rashi on the Tanakh — English translations: “The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg” (CC BY 4.0); “Pentateuch with Rashi's commentary by M. Rosenbaum and A.M. Silbermann, 1929-1934” (public domain); “The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J” (CC BY 4.0); and “The Book of Joshua, Metsudah Publications, 1997” (CC BY 4.0). Text via Sefaria.

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Ezekiel, in the Prophets, opens this verse with 15 words (14 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is ṭâmêʼ (“to be unclean”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

  1. How does “to be unclean” (ṭâmêʼ) shape what this verse is saying?
  2. 1 Kings 13:8 shares this passage’s theme. How do the two illuminate each other?
  3. These translations render this verse differently; the difference is in the English rendering, not the original. What questions does that raise?
  4. The verb «עָשָׂ֑ה» is Qal Perfect. How does its form color the action?
  5. Reading how Trapp's Complete Commentary and Whedon's Commentary on the Bible read this verse, where do the two commentators agree and where do they part?

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