וְרָאוּ֙ כָּל בָּשָׂ֔ר כִּ֛י אֲנִ֥י יְהוָ֖ה בִּֽעַרְתִּ֑יהָ לֹ֖א תִּכְבֶּֽה
All flesh shall see that I, Yahweh, have kindled it; it shall not be quenched.
World English Bible · Public Domain
Ezekiel 20:48
Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) Ezekiel 20:48 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.
English Translation
All flesh shall see that I, Yahweh, have kindled it; it shall not be quenched.
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The same verse in 3 English versions, stacked beneath the original-language interlinear above. Click any original word for its lexicon entry.
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Highlighted words mark where these versions differ — a whole-verse word diff, not a word-by-word alignment.
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World English Bible Public Domain
All flesh shall see that I, Yahweh, have kindled it; it shall not be quenched.
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King James Version Public Domain
And all flesh shall see that I the LORD have kindled it: it shall not be quenched.
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Then all flesh will see that I am Yahweh when I light the fire, and it will not be quenched.’”
unfoldingWord Literal Text — © unfoldingWord, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Word-aligned USFM3 via Door43 (git.door43.org/unfoldingWord/en_ult).
Show all 18 translations
Every available English version of this verse, each an independent rendering of the whole verse.
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World English Bible Public Domain
All flesh shall see that I, Yahweh, have kindled it; it shall not be quenched.
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Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Then all people will see that I, the LORD, have kindled it; it will not be quenched.”
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Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
Then all people will see that I, the LORD, have kindled it; it will not be quenched.”
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King James Version Public Domain
And all flesh shall see that I the LORD have kindled it: it shall not be quenched.
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American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
And all flesh shall see that I, Jehovah, have kindled it; it shall not be quenched.
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Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
And all flesh shall see that I the LORD have kindled it: it shall not be quenched.
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Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
And all flesh shall see, that I the Lord haue kindled it, and it shall not bee quenched. Then saide I, Ah Lord God, they say of me, Doeth not he speake parables?
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Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
And all flesh shall see, that I the Lord have kindled it, and it shall not be quenched.
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Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
And seen have all flesh, that I, Jehovah, have kindled it -- it is not quenched.'
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Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
And all flesh has seen, that I, YHWH, have kindled it—it is not quenched.”
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Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
Then all flesh will see that I am Yahweh when I light the fire, and it will not be quenched.'”
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Then all flesh will see that I am Yahweh when I light the fire, and it will not be quenched.’”
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Darby Bible Public Domain
And all flesh shall see that I Jehovah have kindled it: it shall not be quenched.
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World Messianic Bible Public Domain
All flesh will see that I, the LORD, have kindled it. It will not be quenched.”’”
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Webster's Bible Public Domain
And all flesh shall see that I the LORD have kindled it: it shall not be quenched.
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Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
Then everyone will recognize that it was me, the Lord, who started the fire, and it won't be put out.”
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Bible in Basic English Public Domain
And all flesh will see that I the Lord have had it lighted: it will not be put out.
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JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
(21-4) And all flesh shall see that I the LORD have kindled it; it shall not be quenched.'
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תִּכְבֶּֽה
kâbâh
H3518
“to quench”
Verb, Qal, Imperfect, 3rd Person, Feminine, Singular
- Appears 24× in the Hebrew Bible
- First appears at Leviticus 6:12
- Part of Speech
- Verb
- Stem
- Qal
- Form
- Imperfect
- Person
- 3rd Person
- Gender
- Feminine
- Number
- Singular
Full BDB Definition
to quench, put out, be put out, be quenched, be extinguished
- (Qal) to be quenched, be extinguished
- (Piel) to quench, extinguish
- וְרָאוּ֙ râʼâh H7200 “and · to see” Conjunction + Verb, Qal, Sequential Perfect, 3rd Person, Common, Plural
- כָּל kôl H3605 “all of” Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct
- בָּשָׂ֔ר bâsâr H1320 “flesh” Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute
- כִּ֛י kîy H3588 “that” Conjunction
- אֲנִ֥י ʼănîy H589 “I” Pronoun, Personal, 1st Person, Common, Singular
- יְהוָ֖ה Yᵉhôvâh H3068 “LORD” Noun, Proper
- בִּֽעַרְתִּ֑יהָ bâʻar H1197 “to burn · her” Verb, Piel, Perfect, 1st Person, Common, Singular + Suffix, Personal, 3rd Person, Feminine, Singular
- לֹ֖א lôʼ H3808 “not” Particle, Negative
- תִּכְבֶּֽה kâbâh H3518 “to quench” Verb, Qal, Imperfect, 3rd Person, Feminine, Singular
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 →
- 9
- words
- 9
- distinct lemmas
- Prophets
- section
Notable vocabulary
The rarest word here is תִּכְבֶּֽה to quench H3518 — appearing just 24 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.
Shared distinctive vocabulary
תִּכְבֶּֽה to quench H3518 occurs in 24 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:
Grammatical profile
- 3 verbs
- 3 nouns
- 1 pronoun
- 1 conjunction
- 1 particle
Verb forms
- וְרָאוּ֙ Qal · Sequential Perfect
- בִּֽעַרְתִּ֑יהָ Piel · Perfect
- תִּכְבֶּֽה Qal · Imperfect
Hebrew & Septuagint length
In English translation the verse runs 15 words from the Hebrew and 17 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.
Cross-references
6Topical passages linked to Ezekiel 20:48 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.
- Deuteronomy 29:24–28 even all the nations shall say, Why has Yahweh done thus to this land? what means the heat of this great anger?
- 2 Chronicles 7:20–22 then will I pluck them up by the roots out of my land which I have given them; and this house, which I have made holy for my name, will I cast out of my sight, and I will make it a proverb and a byword among all peoples.
- Isaiah 26:11 Yahweh, your hand is lifted up, yet they don't see: but they shall see [your] zeal for the people, and be disappointed; yes, fire shall devour your adversaries.
- Jeremiah 7:20 Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, my anger and my wrath shall be poured out on this place, on man, and on animal, and on the trees of the field, and on the fruit of the ground; and it shall burn, and shall not be quenched.
- Jeremiah 40:2–3 The captain of the guard took Jeremiah, and said to him, Yahweh your God pronounced this evil on this place;
- Lamentations 2:16–17 All your enemies have opened their mouth wide against you; They hiss and gnash the teeth; they say, We have swallowed her up; Certainly this is the day that we looked for; we have found, we have seen it.
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Hebrew and Greek witnesses Masoretic Hebrew ↔ Greek Septuagint
The same verse in the two great witnesses to the Old Testament, shown verse-for-verse.
These are two independent witnesses, not word-aligned to each other, and the Septuagint is shown in lemma (dictionary) form.
And all flesh shall know that I the Lord have kindled it: it shall not be quenched.
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 →
Lesson kit
Teaching starters — assembled from the data on this page, not authored interpretation. Every prompt links to the verse data it draws on. Edit before teaching.
Ezekiel, in the Prophets, opens this verse with 9 words (9 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is kâbâh (“to quench”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Discussion questions
- The word kâbâh carries the sense “to quench.” How does it shape the verse?
- How does Leviticus 6:12, which shares the word «to quench», read alongside this verse?
- These translations render this verse differently; the difference is in the English rendering, not the original. What questions does that raise?
- «וְרָאוּ֙» is a Qal Sequential Perfect verb. How does that grammatical form shape the action described?
- Compare how Trapp's Complete Commentary and Geneva Bible (1599) read this verse. Where do they agree or differ?
Things to notice
- These translations choose different wording for 10 words in this verse.
- 9 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 9 words in this verse.
Commentary
Notes on Ezekiel 20:48 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.
Lemma curates 59 commentaries, every one of them public domain or Creative Commons licensed, each selected and text-cleaned for this edition rather than reprinted as found. About our sources →
Trapp's Complete Commentary
John Trapp
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.
Geneva Bible (1599)
Geneva Bible translators
Geneva Bible (1599) marginal notes — public domain. Text via Bolls.life.
Adam Clarke's Commentary
Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible (1810–1826) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.
Matthew Poole's English Annotations
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible (1683–1685) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.
Whedon's Commentary on the Bible
Daniel D. Whedon
Daniel D. Whedon (gen. ed.), Commentary on the Old and New Testaments (1874–1909) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
unfoldingWord translationNotes
Door43 World Missions Community
unfoldingWord translationNotes — © Distant Shores Media and the Door43 World Missions Community, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Source: git.door43.org/Door43/en_tn.