Ezekiel 23:26

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex)

English Translation

They shall also strip you of your clothes, and take away your beautiful jewels.

World English Bible · Public Domain

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וְהִפְשִׁיט֖וּךְ

pâshaṭ

H6584

“and · to strip · you”

Conjunction + Verb, Hiphil, Sequential Perfect, 3rd Person, Common, Plural + Suffix, Personal, 2nd Person, Feminine, Singular

Appears 43× in the Hebrew Bible
First appears at Genesis 37:23

Full BDB Definition

Origin: a primitive root

TWOT: 1845

to strip, invade, strip off, make a dash, raid, spread out - (Qal) - to strip off, put off - to put off (one's shelter), make a dash - (Piel) to strip - (Hiphil) - to strip of - to strip off - to flay - (Hithpael) to strip oneself of

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 →

6: words
6: distinct lemmas
Prophets: section

Shared distinctive vocabulary

וְהִפְשִׁיט֖וּךְ to strip H6584 occurs in 42 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:

Grammatical profile

2 verbs
3 nouns
1 particle

Verb forms

וְהִפְשִׁיט֖וּךְ Hiphil · Sequential Perfect
וְלָקְח֖וּ Qal · Sequential Perfect

Hebrew & Septuagint length

In English translation the verse runs 14 words from the Hebrew and 13 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

Topical passages linked to Ezekiel 23:26 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.

Ezekiel 16:39 I will also give you into their hand, and they shall throw down your vaulted place, and break down your lofty places; and they shall strip you of your clothes, and take your beautiful jewels; and they shall leave you naked and bare.
Jeremiah 13:22 If you say in your heart, Why are these things come on me? for the greatness of your iniquity are your skirts uncovered, and your heels suffer violence.
Ezekiel 23:29 and they shall deal with you in hatred, and shall take away all your labor, and shall leave you naked and bare; and the nakedness of your prostitution shall be uncovered, both your lewdness and your prostitution.
Isaiah 3:17–24 Therefore the Lord brings sores on the crown of the head of the women of Zion, And Yahweh will make their scalps bald."
Ezekiel 16:16 You took of your garments, and made for yourselves high places decked with various colors, and played the prostitute on them: [the like things] shall not come, neither shall it be [so].
Ezekiel 16:37 therefore see, I will gather all your lovers, with whom you have taken pleasure, and all those who you have loved, with all those who you have hated; I will even gather them against you on every side, and will uncover your nakedness to them, that they may see all your nakedness.
Hosea 2:3 Lest I strip her naked, And make her bare as in the day that she was born, And make her like a wilderness, And set her like a dry land, And kill her with thirst.
Hosea 2:9–10 Therefore I will take back my grain in its time, And my new wine in its season, And will pluck away my wool and my flax which should have covered her nakedness.

1 Peter 3:3–4 Let your beauty be not just the outward adorning of braiding the hair, and of wearing jewels of gold, or of putting on fine clothing;
Revelation 17:16 The ten horns which you saw, and the beast, these will hate the prostitute, and will make her desolate, and will make her naked, and will eat her flesh, and will burn her utterly with fire.
Revelation 18:14–17 The fruits which your soul lusted after have been lost to you, and all things that were dainty and sumptuous have perished from you, and you will find them no more at all.

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Hebrew and Greek witnesses Masoretic Hebrew ↔ Greek Septuagint

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These are two independent witnesses, not word-aligned to each other, and the Septuagint is shown in lemma (dictionary) form.

Hebrew Ezekiel 23:26 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

וְהִפְשִׁיט֖וּךְ אֶת בְּגָדָ֑יִךְ וְלָקְח֖וּ כְּלֵ֥י תִפְאַרְתֵּֽךְ

They shall also strip you of your clothes, and take away your beautiful jewels.

World English Bible · Public Domain

Greek LXX Ezekiel 23:26 Septuagint · lemma form

καί ἐκδύω σύ ὁ ἱματισμός σύ καί λαμβάνω ὁ σκεῦος ὁ καύχησις σύ

And they shall strip you of your raiment, and take away your ornaments.

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)

וִישַׁלְחוּנִיךְ לְבוּשֵׁי יְקָרִיךְ וְיִסְבוּן מָאנֵי תוּשְׁבַּחְתִּיךְ:

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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 23:26 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

Eze 23:26 They shall also strip thee out of thy clothes, and take away thy fair jewels.

Ver. 26. They shall also strip thee out of thy clothes.] Wherein thou hast so much prided thyself.

And take away thy fair jewels.] Instrumenta mundi tui; the instruments of thy decking. {Isa 3:18-24}

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.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown

strip . . . of . . . clothes--whereby she attracted her paramours (Eze 16:39).

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

Adam Clarke's Commentary

Verse 26. They shall also strip thee] See on Eze 16:39.

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible (1810–1826) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.

The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne

26. Cf. Eze_16:39.

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

They shall also strip thee out of thy clothes,.... As such who are taken captives are usually served:

and take away, thy fair jewels; their ornaments of every kind: or "the vessels of thy glory" (c); Kimchi observes this may be meant either of the garments of the priests, and the vessels of the sanctuary; or of whole spoil of the city in general, whether in the temple, or in other houses.

(c) "vasa gloria tuae", V. L. Pagninus, Montanus; "instrumenta ornatus tui", Junius & Tremellius, Polanus, Piscator; "vasa ornatus tui", Starckius.

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

Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

Glory; vanity, or of the temple, chap. xvi. 17., and Osee ii. 4.

George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), Haydock's Catholic Family Bible and Commentary, 1859 edition — public domain. Excludes Psalms (Douay-Rheims chapter numbering differs from Protestant) and Deuterocanonical books (Catholic canon only).

Matthew Poole's English Annotations

Strip thee out of thy clothes; both as lewd, disgraced harlots and as captives are used: see Eze 16:39.

Thy fair jewels; all thy rich, beautiful ornaments: see Eze 16:17. They shall be prey and plunder to the enemy.

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

26. Note Eze_16:39.

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

General Information:

Yahweh continues his metaphor in which he speaks of the cities of Jerusalem and Samaria as if they were two prostitutes. This metaphor continues through Ezekiel 23:34. (See: Metaphor)

from the land of Egypt

This refers to her prostitution as beginning in Egypt. AT: "which you began in the land of Egypt" (See: Assumed Knowledge and Implicit Information)

You will not lift up your eyes toward them with longing

This is a way to refer to a person turning their head to look at something. Here looking represents desire. AT: "You will not look toward them with longing" or "You will not desire these things" (See: Metaphor)

you will think of Egypt no longer

Here "Egypt" represents the shameful things that she did in Egypt. AT: "you will think about the things you did in Egypt no longer" or "you will not think about what you did in Egypt any more" (See: Metonymy)

translationWords

shame

prostitute

Egypt

unfoldingWord translationNotes — © Distant Shores Media and the Door43 World Missions Community, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Source: git.door43.org/Door43/en_tn.

Rashi

Rabbi Shlomo Yitzchaki (Rashi)

of your garments The priestly raiment.

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.

Lesson kit

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Ezekiel, in the Prophets, opens this verse with 6 words (6 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is pâshaṭ (“to strip”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

How does “to strip” (pâshaṭ) shape what this verse is saying?
Genesis 37:23 shares the word «to strip» with this verse. 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 «וְהִפְשִׁיט֖וּךְ» is Hiphil Sequential Perfect. How does its form color the action?
Reading how Trapp's Complete Commentary and Jamieson, Fausset & Brown read this verse, where do the two commentators agree and where do they part?

Things to notice

These translations choose different wording for 10 words in this verse.
6 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 6 words in this verse.