Ezekiel 37:13

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) Ezekiel 37:13 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.
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You shall know that I am Yahweh, when I have opened your graves, and caused you to come up out of your graves, my people.
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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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  • World English Bible Public Domain
    You shall know that I am Yahweh, when I have opened your graves, and caused you to come up out of your graves, my people.
  • King James Version Public Domain
    And ye shall know that I am the LORD, when I have opened your graves, O my people, and brought you up out of your graves,
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
    Then you will know that I am Yahweh, when I open your graves and bring you out from them, my people.

unfoldingWord Literal Text — © unfoldingWord, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Word-aligned USFM3 via Door43 (git.door43.org/unfoldingWord/en_ult).

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  • World English Bible Public Domain
    You shall know that I am Yahweh, when I have opened your graves, and caused you to come up out of your graves, my people.
  • Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
    Then you, My people, will know that I am the LORD, when I open your graves and bring you up from them.
  • Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
    Then you, My people, will know that I am the LORD, when I open your graves and bring you up from them.
  • King James Version Public Domain
    And ye shall know that I am the LORD, when I have opened your graves, O my people, and brought you up out of your graves,
  • American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
    And ye shall know that I am Jehovah, when I have opened your graves, and caused you to come up out of your graves, O my people.
  • Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
    And ye shall know that I am the LORD, when I have opened your graves, and caused you to come up out of your graves, O my people.
  • Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
    And yee shall knowe that I am the Lord, when I haue opened your graues, O my people, and brought you vp out of your sepulchres,
  • Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
    And you shall know that I am the Lord, when I shall have opened your sepulchres, and shall have brought you out of your graves, O my people:
  • Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
    And ye have known that I `am' Jehovah, In My opening your graves, And in My bringing you up out of your graves, O My people.
  • Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
    And you have known that I [am] YHWH, || In My opening your graves, || And in My bringing you up out of your graves, O My people.
  • Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
    Then you will know that I am Yahweh, when I open your graves and bring you out from them, my people.
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
    Then you will know that I am Yahweh, when I open your graves and bring you out from them, my people.
  • Darby Bible Public Domain
    And ye shall know that I [am] Jehovah, when I have opened your graves, and have caused you to come up out of your graves, O my people.
  • World Messianic Bible Public Domain
    You will know that I am the LORD, when I have opened your graves and caused you to come up out of your graves, my people.
  • Webster's Bible Public Domain
    And ye shall know that I am the LORD, when I have opened your graves, O my people, and brought you out of your graves,
  • Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
    Then you will know that I am the Lord, when I open your graves and lift you out of them, my people.
  • Bible in Basic English Public Domain
    And you will be certain that I am the Lord by my opening the resting-places of your dead and making you come up out of your resting-places, O my people.
  • JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
    And ye shall know that I am the LORD, when I have opened your graves, and caused you to come up out of your graves, O My people.

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קִבְרֽוֹתֵיכֶ֗ם
qeber
H6913
“graves · your”
Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct + Suffix, Personal, 2nd Person, Masculine, Plural
Part of Speech
Noun
Type
Common
Gender
Masculine
Number
Plural
State
Construct
Full BDB Definition

Origin: from H6912

TWOT: 1984a

grave, sepulchre, tomb
  1. וִֽידַעְתֶּ֖ם yâdaʻ H3045 “and · to know” Conjunction + Verb, Qal, Sequential Perfect, 2nd Person, Masculine, Plural
  2. כִּֽי kîy H3588 “that” Conjunction
  3. אֲנִ֣י ʼănîy H589 “I” Pronoun, Personal, 1st Person, Common, Singular
  4. יְהוָ֑ה Yᵉhôvâh H3068 “LORD” Noun, Proper
  5. בְּפִתְחִ֣י pâthach H6605 “in/at · to open · me” Preposition + Verb, Qal, Infinitive Construct + Suffix, Personal, 1st Person, Common, Singular
  6. אֶת ʼêth H853 “-” Particle, Direct Object
  7. וּבְהַעֲלוֹתִ֥י ʻâlâh H5927 “and · in/at · to go up · me” Conjunction + Preposition + Verb, Hiphil, Infinitive Construct + Suffix, Personal, 1st Person, Common, Singular
  8. אֶתְכֶ֛ם ʼêth H853 “- · you” Particle, Direct Object + Suffix, Personal, 2nd Person, Masculine, Plural
  9. מִקִּבְרוֹתֵיכֶ֖ם qeber H6913 “from · graves · your” Preposition + Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct + Suffix, Personal, 2nd Person, Masculine, Plural
  10. עַמִּֽי ʻam H5971 “people · my” Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct + Suffix, Personal, 1st Person, Common, Singular

About this verse

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11
words
9
distinct lemmas
Prophets
section

Grammatical profile

  • 3 verbs
  • 4 nouns
  • 1 pronoun
  • 1 conjunction
  • 2 particles

Verb forms

  • וִֽידַעְתֶּ֖ם Qal · Sequential Perfect
  • בְּפִתְחִ֣י Qal · Infinitive Construct
  • וּבְהַעֲלוֹתִ֥י Hiphil · Infinitive Construct

Repetition

A word recurs within this verse — often emphatic in Hebrew:

  • קִבְרֽוֹתֵיכֶ֗ם grave H6913 ×2

Hebrew & Septuagint length

In English translation the verse runs 25 words from the Hebrew and 25 from the Septuagint (LXX English) — the same length.

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

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Topical passages linked to Ezekiel 37:13 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.

  • Ezekiel 37:6 I will lay sinews on you, and will bring up flesh on you, and cover you with skin, and put breath in you, and you shall live; and you shall know that I am Yahweh.
  • Ezekiel 16:62 I will establish my covenant with you; and you shall know that I am Yahweh;
  • Psalms 126:2–3 Then our mouth was filled with laughter, And our tongue with singing. Then they said among the nations, "Yahweh has done great things for them."

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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 37:13 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

וִֽידַעְתֶּ֖ם כִּֽי אֲנִ֣י יְהוָ֑ה בְּפִתְחִ֣י אֶת קִבְרֽוֹתֵיכֶ֗ם וּבְהַעֲלוֹתִ֥י אֶתְכֶ֛ם מִקִּבְרוֹתֵיכֶ֖ם עַמִּֽי

You shall know that I am Yahweh, when I have opened your graves, and caused you to come up out of your graves, my people.

World English Bible · Public Domain

Greek LXX Ezekiel 37:13 Septuagint · lemma form

καί γιγνώσκω ὅτι ἐγώ εἰμί κύριος ἐν ὁ ἀναοἴγω ἐγώ ὁ τάφος σύ ὁ ἀναἄγω ἐγώ ἐκ ὁ τάφος ὁ λαός ἐγώ

And you⌃ shall know that I am the Lord, when I have opened your graves, that I may bring up my people from their graves.

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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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.

  1. Targum Jonathan Prophets (Joshua–Malachi)
    וְתֵידְעוּן אֲרֵי אֲנָא יְיָ כַּד אֶפְתַּח יַת קִבְרֵיכוֹן וְכַד אַסֵיק יַתְכוֹן מִגוֹ קִבְרֵיכוֹן עַמִי:

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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 37:13 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 37:13 And ye shall know that I [am] the LORD, when I have opened your graves, O my people, and brought you up out of your graves,

Ver. 13. And ye shall know that I am the Lord.] Ye shall experiment it. The Reformed Churches have done so abundantly. Gloria Deo in excelsis.

When I have opened your graves.] This is spoken over and over for their confirmation who were apt to think the news was too good to be true.

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

That is, when I have brought you out of those places, and towns where you are captives.

Geneva Bible (1599) marginal notes — public domain. Text via Bolls.life.

Adam Clarke's Commentary

Verse 13. When I have opened your graves] When I shall have done for you what was beyond your hope, and deemed impossible, then shall ye know that I am Jehovah.

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

John Gill's Exposition

And ye shall know that I am the Lord,.... See Gill on Eze 37:6,

when I have opened your graves, O my people, and brought you up out of your graves; which is doing that for them which none but the omnipotent God could do; and they seeing his hand and power, his grace and mercy in it, will know, own, and acknowledge him.

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

When your restitution to your own land, and your prosperity in your land, when your growth to strength and power, shall be so miraculously effected, then you shall acknowledge and publish the glory of my power, faithfulness, goodness, and wisdom.

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

unfoldingWord translationNotes

Door43 World Missions Community

General Information:

These are Yahweh's words to the house of Israel.

to rest in your land

"to live peacefully in your own land"

this is Yahweh's declaration

Yahweh speaks of himself by name to express the certainty of what he is declaring. See how you translated a similar phrase in Ezekiel 5:11. AT: "this is what Yahweh has declared" or "this is what I, Yahweh, have declared" (See: First, Second, or Third Person)

translationWords

know

life

rest

declare

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

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 11 words (9 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is qeber (“grave”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

  1. What does “grave” (qeber) contribute to the verse as a whole?
  2. How does Ezekiel 37:6, which shares this passage’s theme, read alongside this verse?
  3. What does the repetition of “grave” (2× in this one verse) do in this verse?
  4. 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?
  5. «וִֽידַעְתֶּ֖ם» is a Qal Sequential Perfect verb. How does that grammatical form shape the action described?
  6. Compare how Trapp's Complete Commentary and Geneva Bible (1599) read this verse. Where do they agree or differ?

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