Ezekiel 33:16

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex)

English Translation

None of his sins that he has committed shall be remembered against him: he has done that which is lawful and right; he shall surely live.

World English Bible · Public Domain

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וּצְדָקָ֛ה

tsᵉdâqâh

H6666

“and · righteousness”

Conjunction + Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute

Appears 159× in the Hebrew Bible
First appears at Genesis 15:6

Full BDB Definition

Origin: from H6663

TWOT: 1879b

justice, righteousness - righteousness (in government) - of judge, ruler, king - of law - of Davidic king Messiah - righteousness (of God's attribute) - righteousness (in a case or cause) - righteousness, truthfulness - righteousness (as ethically right) - righteousness (as vindicated), justification, salvation - of God - prosperity (of people) - righteous acts

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 →

13: words
10: distinct lemmas
Prophets: section

Grammatical profile

5 verbs
5 nouns
1 preposition
2 particles

Verb forms

חָטָ֔א Qal · Perfect
תִזָּכַ֖רְנָה Niphal · Imperfect
עָשָׂ֖ה Qal · Perfect
חָי֥וֹ Qal · Infinitive Absolute
יִֽחְיֶֽה Qal · Imperfect

Repetition

Words recur within this verse — often emphatic in Hebrew:

חטאתו sin offering H2403 ×2
חָי֥וֹ to live H2421 ×2

Hebrew & Septuagint length

In English translation the verse runs 26 words from the Hebrew and 23 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 13 Hebrew tokens and 17 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 33:16 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.

Isaiah 43:25 I, even I, am he who blots out your transgressions for my own sake; and I will not remember your sins.
Ezekiel 18:22 None of his transgressions that he has committed shall be remembered against him: in his righteousness that he has done he shall live.
Micah 7:18–19 Who is a God like you, who pardons iniquity, And passes over the disobedience of the remnant of his heritage? He doesn't retain his anger forever, Because he delights in loving kindness.
Isaiah 1:18 "Come now, and let us reason together," says Yahweh: "Though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow. Though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.
Isaiah 44:22 I have blotted out, as a thick cloud, your transgressions, and, as a cloud, your sins: return to me; for I have redeemed you.
Romans 5:16 The gift is not as through one who sinned: for the judgment came by one to condemnation, but the free gift came of many trespasses to justification.
1 John 2:1–3 My little children, I write these things to you so that you may not sin. If anyone sins, we have a Counselor with the Father, Jesus Christ, the righteous.
Romans 5:21 that as sin reigned in death, even so might grace reign through righteousness to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

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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.

Hebrew Ezekiel 33:16 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

כָּל חטאתו חַטֹּאתָיו֙ אֲשֶׁ֣ר חָטָ֔א לֹ֥א תִזָּכַ֖רְנָה ל֑וֹ מִשְׁפָּ֧ט וּצְדָקָ֛ה עָשָׂ֖ה חָי֥וֹ יִֽחְיֶֽה

None of his sins that he has committed shall be remembered against him: he has done that which is lawful and right; he shall surely live.

World English Bible · Public Domain

Greek LXX Ezekiel 33:16 Septuagint · lemma form

πᾶς ὁ ἁμαρτία αὐτός ὅς ἁμαρτάνω οὐ μή ἀναμιμνήσκω ὅτι κρίμα καί δικαιοσύνη ποιέω ἐν αὐτός ζάω

None of his sins which he has committed shall be remembered: because he has wrought judgment and righteousness; by them shall he live.

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)

כָּל חוֹבוֹהִי דְחַב לָא יִדְכְרַן לֵיהּ דִין דִקְשׁוֹט וּזְכוּ עֲבַד מֵיחָא יְחֵי:

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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 33:16 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 33:16 None of his sins that he hath committed shall be mentioned unto him: he hath done that which is lawful and right; he shall surely live.

Ver. 16. None of his sins.] This is point blank against the doctrine of purgatory.

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.

The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne

16. Cf. Eze_18:22.

shall be mentioned] Or, remembered against him, as Eze_33:13.

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

Yet the children of thy people say,.... "Not my people"; for surely the children of God could never say what follows; and one would think that even no man could say it, after so much had been said by the Lord concerning the righteous and the wicked, and his dealings with them, which must appear to be just and right, good and gracious; and yet such were the atheism, the perverseness and peevishness of these people, they went on to say as they had done before:

the way of the Lord is not equal: is not according to the rules of justice and equity. The Targum is,

"the ways of the goodness of the Lord are not made plain (or exposed) unto us.''

The answer to which is,

but, as for them, their way is not equal; according to the rule of the divine word; as for God, his way and methods, both of providence and grace, were right and good; See Gill on Eze 18:25.

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

As the threat against a righteous man that proves a presumptuous apostate was stated in the former part of the 12th, and in the whole 13th verse, so in these three verses the case of a repenting and reforming sinner is stated and determined to his encouragement and comfort, and they are the same with Eze 18:21,22,27,28, which see.

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

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 13 words (10 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is tsᵉdâqâh (“righteousness”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

How does “righteousness” (tsᵉdâqâh) shape what this verse is saying?
Isaiah 43:25 shares this passage’s theme. How do the two illuminate each other?
“sin offering” occurs 2× in this one verse. What is the effect of the repetition?
These translations render this verse differently; the difference is in the English rendering, not the original. What questions does that raise?
The verb «חָטָ֔א» is Qal Perfect. How does its form color the action?
Reading how Trapp's Complete Commentary and The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges read this verse, where do the two commentators agree and where do they part?

Things to notice

This verse counts 13 Hebrew ↔ 17 Greek words.
These translations choose different wording for 15 words in this verse.
“sin offering” occurs 2× in this single verse.
10 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 13 words in this verse.