בְּשׁוּב צַדִּ֥יק מִצִּדְקָת֖וֹ וְעָ֣שָׂה עָ֑וֶל וּמֵ֖ת בָּהֶֽם
When the righteous turns from his righteousness, and commits iniquity, he shall even die therein.
World English Bible · Public Domain
Ezekiel 33:18
Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) Ezekiel 33:18 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
When the righteous turns from his righteousness, and commits iniquity, he shall even die therein.
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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.
Each is an independent rendering of the whole verse — the interlinear is not word-aligned to these translations.
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
When the righteous turns from his righteousness, and commits iniquity, he shall even die therein.
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King James Version Public Domain
When the righteous turneth from his righteousness, and committeth iniquity, he shall even die thereby.
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
When the righteous person turns away from his righteousness and commits sin, then he will die in it!
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
When the righteous turns from his righteousness, and commits iniquity, he shall even die therein.
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Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
If a righteous man turns from his righteousness and commits iniquity, he will die for it.
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Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
If a righteous man turns from his righteousness and commits iniquity, he will die for it.
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King James Version Public Domain
When the righteous turneth from his righteousness, and committeth iniquity, he shall even die thereby.
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American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
When the righteous turneth from his righteousness, and committeth iniquity, he shall even die therein.
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Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
When the righteous turneth from his righteousness, and committeth iniquity, he shall even die therein.
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Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
When the righteous turneth from his righteousnesse, and committeth iniquitie, he shall euen die thereby.
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Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
For when the just shall depart from his justice, and commit iniquities, he shall die in them.
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Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
In the turning back of the righteous from his righteousness, And he hath done perversity -- he dieth for it.
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Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
In the turning back of the righteous from his righteousness, || And he has done perversity—he dies for it.
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Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
When the righteous person turns away from his righteousness and commits sin, then he will die in it!
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
When the righteous person turns away from his righteousness and commits sin, then he will die in it!
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Darby Bible Public Domain
When the righteous turneth from his righteousness, and doeth what is wrong, then he shall die therein.
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World Messianic Bible Public Domain
When the righteous turns from his righteousness and commits iniquity, he will even die therein.
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Webster's Bible Public Domain
When the righteous turneth from his righteousness, and committeth iniquity, for that he shall even die.
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Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
If a good person stops doing good and sins, they will die because of it.
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Bible in Basic English Public Domain
When the upright man, turning away from his righteousness, does evil, death will overtake him in it.
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JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
When the righteous turneth from his righteousness, and committeth iniquity, he shall even die thereby.
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עָ֑וֶל
ʻevel
H5766
“injustice”
Noun, Common, Both, Singular, Absolute
- Appears 54× in the Hebrew Bible
- First appears at Leviticus 19:15
- Part of Speech
- Noun
- Type
- Common
- Gender
- Both
- Number
- Singular
- State
- Absolute
Full BDB Definition
injustice, unrighteousness, wrong
- violent deeds of injustice
- injustice (of speech)
- injustice (generally)
- בְּשׁוּב shûwb H7725 “in/at · to return” Preposition + Verb, Qal, Infinitive Construct
- צַדִּ֥יק tsaddîyq H6662 “righteous” Adjective, Adjective, Masculine, Singular, Absolute
- מִצִּדְקָת֖וֹ tsᵉdâqâh H6666 “from · righteousness · his” Preposition + Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Construct + Suffix, Personal, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular
- וְעָ֣שָׂה ʻâsâh H6213 “and · to do” Conjunction + Verb, Qal, Sequential Perfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular
- עָ֑וֶל ʻevel H5766 “injustice” Noun, Common, Both, Singular, Absolute
- וּמֵ֖ת mûwth H4191 “and · to die” Conjunction + Verb, Qal, Sequential Perfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, 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 →
- 7
- words
- 6
- distinct lemmas
- Prophets
- section
Shared distinctive vocabulary
עָ֑וֶל injustice H5766 occurs in 51 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:
Grammatical profile
- 3 verbs
- 2 nouns
- 1 adjective
- 1 preposition
Verb forms
- בְּשׁוּב Qal · Infinitive Construct
- וְעָ֣שָׂה Qal · Sequential Perfect
- וּמֵ֖ת Qal · Sequential Perfect
Hebrew & Septuagint length
In English translation the verse runs 15 words from the Hebrew and 18 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
5Topical passages linked to Ezekiel 33:18 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.
- Ezekiel 33:12–13 You, son of man, tell the children of your people, The righteousness of the righteous shall not deliver him in the day of his disobedience; and as for the wickedness of the wicked, he shall not fall thereby in the day that he turns from his wickedness; neither shall he who is righteous be able to live thereby in the day that he sins.
- Hebrews 10:38 But the righteous will live by faith. If he shrinks back, my soul has no pleasure in him."
- 2 Peter 2:20–22 For if, after they have escaped the defilement of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein and overcome, the last state has become worse with them than the first.
- Ezekiel 18:26–27 When the righteous man turns away from his righteousness, and commits iniquity, and dies therein; in his iniquity that he has done shall he die.
- Ezekiel 3:20 Again, when a righteous man does turn from his righteousness, and commit iniquity, and I lay a stumbling block before him, he shall die: because you have not given him warning, he shall die in his sin, and his righteous deeds which he has done shall not be remembered; but his blood will I require at your hand.
Cross-references courtesy of OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0).
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.
ἐν ὁ ἀποστρέφω δίκαιος ἀπό ὁ δικαιοσύνη αὐτός καί ποιέω ἀνομία καί ἀποθνήσκω ἐν αὐτός
When the righteous turns away from his righteousness, and shall commit iniquities, then shall he die in them.
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)
The Targum is the ancient Jewish Aramaic paraphrase of the Hebrew Scriptures — an interpretive translation, not the Hebrew text itself. Onkelos (literal) and Pseudo-Jonathan (expansive) render the Torah, and Jonathan the Prophets. Coverage is partial: where no permissively-licensed English translation exists for a verse, only the Aramaic is shown. This is verse-level text, not a word-by-word alignment to the Hebrew.
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Targum Jonathan Prophets (Joshua–Malachi)
כַּד יְתוּב זַכָּאָה מִזַכְוָתֵהּ וְיַעְבֵּיד שְׁקַר וִימוּת בְּהוֹן:
(no public-domain English translation for this verse)
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.
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 7 words (6 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is ʻevel (“injustice”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Discussion questions
- The word ʻevel carries the sense “injustice.” How does it shape the verse?
- Leviticus 19:15 shares the word «injustice» with this verse. How do the two illuminate each other?
- The translations on this page render this verse differently — a whole-verse word diff, not a word-by-word alignment. What might account for the different wordings?
- The verb «בְּשׁוּב» is Qal Infinitive Construct. 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
- These translations choose different wording for 13 words in this verse.
- 6 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 7 words in this verse.
Commentary
Notes on Ezekiel 33:18 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
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
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
John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible (1746–1763) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.
Rashi
Rabbi Shlomo Yitzchaki (Rashi)
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.