Ezekiel 33:29

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex)

English Translation

Then shall they know that I am Yahweh, when I have made the land a desolation and an astonishment, because of all their abominations which they have committed.

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וּמְשַׁמָּ֔ה

mᵉshammâh

H4923

“and · devastation”

Conjunction + Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute

Appears 7× in the Hebrew Bible
First appears at Isaiah 15:6

Full BDB Definition

Origin: from H8074

TWOT: 2409f

devastation, horror - devastation, waste - horror

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 →

14: words
14: distinct lemmas
Prophets: section

Notable vocabulary

The rarest word here is וּמְשַׁמָּ֔ה devastation H4923 — appearing just 7 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.

Shared distinctive vocabulary

וּמְשַׁמָּ֔ה devastation H4923 occurs in 7 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:

Grammatical profile

3 verbs
6 nouns
1 pronoun
1 preposition
1 conjunction
2 particles

Verb forms

וְיָדְע֖וּ Qal · Sequential Perfect
בְּתִתִּ֤י Qal · Infinitive Construct
עָשֽׂוּ Qal · Perfect

Hebrew & Septuagint length

In English translation the verse runs 28 words from the Hebrew and 31 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 14 Hebrew tokens and 21 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 33:29 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.

Ezekiel 6:7 The slain shall fall in the midst of you, and you shall know that I am Yahweh.
Exodus 14:18 The Egyptians shall know that I am Yahweh, when I have gotten myself honor over Pharaoh, over his chariots, and over his horsemen."
2 Kings 17:9–18 The children of Israel did secretly things that were not right against Yahweh their God: and they built them high places in all their cities, from the tower of the watchmen to the fortified city;
2 Chronicles 36:14–17 Moreover all the chiefs of the priests, and the people, trespassed very greatly after all the abominations of the nations; and they polluted the house of Yahweh which he had made holy in Jerusalem.
Psalms 9:16 Yahweh has made himself known. He has executed judgment. The wicked is snared by the work of his own hands. Meditation. Selah.
Psalms 83:17–18 Let them be disappointed and dismayed forever. Yes, let them be confounded and perish;
Jeremiah 5:1–9 Run you back and forth through the streets of Jerusalem, and see now, and know, and seek in the broad places of it, if you can find a man, if there are any who does justly, who seeks truth; and I will pardon her.
Jeremiah 5:25–31 Your iniquities have turned away these things, and your sins have withheld good from you.

Ezekiel 6:11 Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Smite with your hand, and stamp with your foot, and say, Alas! because of all the evil abominations of the house of Israel; for they shall fall by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence.
Ezekiel 7:27 The king shall mourn, and the prince shall be clothed with desolation, and the hands of the people of the land shall be troubled: I will do to them after their way, and according to their deserts will I judge them; and they shall know that I am Yahweh.
Ezekiel 8:6–15 He said to me, Son of man, see you what they do? even the great abominations that the house of Israel do commit here, that I should go far off from my sanctuary? but you shall again see yet other great abominations.
Ezekiel 22:2–15 You, son of man, will you judge, will you judge the bloody city? then cause her to know all her abominations.
Ezekiel 22:25–31 There is a conspiracy of her prophets in the midst of it, like a roaring lion ravening the prey: they have devoured souls; they take treasure and precious things; they have made her widows many in the midst of it.
Ezekiel 23:49 They shall recompense your lewdness on you, and you shall bear the sins of your idols; and you shall know that I am the Lord Yahweh.
Ezekiel 25:11 and I will execute judgments on Moab; and they shall know that I am Yahweh.
Ezekiel 36:17–18 Son of man, when the house of Israel lived in their own land, they defiled it by their way and by their doings: their way before me was as the uncleanness of a woman in her impurity.

Micah 6:9–12 Yahweh's voice calls to the city, And wisdom sees your name: "Listen to the rod, And he who appointed it.
Zephaniah 3:1–4 Woe to her who is rebellious and polluted, the oppressing city!

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Hebrew and Greek witnesses Masoretic Hebrew ↔ Greek Septuagint

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Hebrew Ezekiel 33:29 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

וְיָדְע֖וּ כִּֽי אֲנִ֣י יְהוָ֑ה בְּתִתִּ֤י אֶת הָאָ֨רֶץ֙ שְׁמָמָ֣ה וּמְשַׁמָּ֔ה עַ֥ל כָּל תּוֹעֲבֹתָ֖ם אֲשֶׁ֥ר עָשֽׂוּ

Then shall they know that I am Yahweh, when I have made the land a desolation and an astonishment, because of all their abominations which they have committed.

World English Bible · Public Domain

Greek LXX Ezekiel 33:29 Septuagint · lemma form

καί γιγνώσκω ὅτι ἐγώ εἰμί κύριος καί ποιέω ὁ γῆ αὐτός ἔρημος καί ἐρημόω διά πᾶς ὁ βδέλυγμα αὐτός ὅς ποιέω

And they shall know that I am the Lord; and I will make their land desert, and it shall be made desolate because of all their abominations which they have wrought.

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)

וְיֵדְעוּן אֲרֵי אֲנָא יְיָ בִּדְאֶתֵּן יַת אַרְעָא לְצָדוּ וְאִשְׁתְּמָמוּ עַל כָּל תּוֹעֲבָתְהוֹן דַעֲבָדוּ:

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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 33:29 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 33:29 Then shall they know that I [am] the LORD, when I have laid the land most desolate because of all their abominations which they have committed.

Ver. 29. Then shall they know.] By woeful experience.

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.

John Gill's Exposition

And they come unto thee as the people cometh,.... As the people of God, who came to the prophets's house to hear him preach the word, and explain it for their spiritual profit and edification these came when they did, and as early and constantly, and with seeming pleasure:

and they sit before thee as my people; with great decency and reverence, and very gravely and demurely, and with seeming devotion, and stay the time out till the whole service is over; as scholars sit at the feet of their masters, to hear and learn their doctrines. So the Targum,

"and they come unto thee as the men the disciples come:''

and they hear thy words, but they will not do them; they gave him the hearing, and seemed attentive, but did not understand what they heard, at least did not put it in practice; they were only hearers, and not doers of the word, and like to the foolish man in Mat 7:26,

for with their mouth they show much love: by the motions of their lips while hearing, and other gestures, as well as by what they said afterwards, they seemed pleased and delighted with what they heard; made huge encomiums upon it, and spoke much in the praise of the preacher. The Targum is the reverse,

"they made game with their mouth.''

But their heart goeth after their covetousness;

"after the money they had taken away by force,''

as the Targum; after the world, and the things of it; after their secular affairs, so that they wished the sermon over, that they might be at them; or, however, did not so diligently attend to what was said, but the cares of the world choked the word, and made it unfruitful to them; these were like the seed that fell among thorns, the thorny ground hearers, Mat 13:22.

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

I would have had them acknowledge me to be the Lord by my blessings which beautified the land, by my holy precepts which directed to piety and justice, by my mercy and kindness towards them; but they despised my mercy, broke my law, abused my bounty; and now by the punishment of their sins, as I threatened, and by laying the land most waste, they shall be constrained to own and submit to me as the Lord.

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

Lesson kit

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

Discussion questions

How does “devastation” (mᵉshammâh) shape what this verse is saying?
Isaiah 15:6 shares the word «devastation» with this verse. How do the two illuminate each other?
These translations render this verse differently; the difference is in the English rendering, not the original. What questions does that raise?
The verb «וְיָדְע֖וּ» is Qal Sequential Perfect. How does its form color the action?
Reading how Trapp's Complete Commentary and John Gill's Exposition read this verse, where do the two commentators agree and where do they part?

Things to notice

This verse counts 14 Hebrew ↔ 21 Greek words.
These translations choose different wording for 15 words in this verse.
14 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 14 words in this verse.