וְקָרַ֨ב אֹתָ֜ם אֶחָ֧ד אֶל אֶחָ֛ד לְךָ֖ לְעֵ֣ץ אֶחָ֑ד וְהָי֥וּ לַאֲחָדִ֖ים בְּיָדֶֽךָ
and join them for you one to another into one stick, that they may become one in your hand.
World English Bible · Public Domain
Ezekiel 37:17
Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) Ezekiel 37:17 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
and join them for you one to another into one stick, that they may become one in your hand.
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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
and join them for you one to another into one stick, that they may become one in your hand.
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King James Version Public Domain
And join them one to another into one stick; and they shall become one in thine hand.
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Bring both of them together into one stick, so that they become one in your hand.
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
and join them for you one to another into one stick, that they may become one in your hand.
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Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Then join them together into one stick, so that they become one in your hand.
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Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
Then join them together into one stick, so that they become one in your hand.
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King James Version Public Domain
And join them one to another into one stick; and they shall become one in thine hand.
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American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
and join them for thee one to another into one stick, that they may become one in thy hand.
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Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
and join them for thee one to another into one stick, that they may become one in thine hand.
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Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
And thou shalt ioyne the one to another into one tree, and they shalbe as one in thine hand.
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Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
And join them one to the other into one stick, and they shall become one in thy hand.
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Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
and bring them near one unto another, to thee, for one stick, and they have become one in thy hand.
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Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
and bring them near to one another, to you, for one stick, and they have become one in your hand.
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Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
Bring both of them together into one stick, so that they become one in your hand.
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Bring both of them together into one stick, so that they become one in your hand.
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Darby Bible Public Domain
And join them one to another into one stick; and they shall become one in thy hand.
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World Messianic Bible Public Domain
Then join them for yourself to one another into one stick, that they may become one in your hand.
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Webster's Bible Public Domain
And join them one to another into one stick; and they shall become one in thy hand.
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Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
Then join the two pieces of wood into one, so that you hold them as one in your hand.
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Bible in Basic English Public Domain
Then, joining them one to another, make them one stick, so that they may be one in your hand.
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JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
and join them for thee one to another into one stick, that they may become one in thy hand.
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וְקָרַ֨ב
qârab
H7126
“and · approach”
Conjunction + Verb, Piel, Imperative, 2nd Person, Masculine, Singular
- Appears 283× in the Hebrew Bible
- First appears at Genesis 12:11
- Part of Speech
- Conjunction + Verb
- Stem
- Piel
- Form
- Imperative
- Person
- 2nd Person
- Gender
- Masculine
- Number
- Singular
Full BDB Definition
to come near, approach, enter into, draw near
- (Qal) to approach, draw near
- (Niphal) to be brought near
- (Piel) to cause to approach, bring near, cause to draw near
- (Hiphil) to bring near, bring, present
- וְקָרַ֨ב qârab H7126 “and · approach” Conjunction + Verb, Piel, Imperative, 2nd Person, Masculine, Singular
- אֹתָ֜ם ʼêth H853 “- · them” Particle, Direct Object + Suffix, Personal, 3rd Person, Masculine, Plural
- אֶחָ֧ד ʼechâd H259 “one” Adjective, Cardinal number, Masculine, Singular, Absolute
- אֶל ʼêl H413 “to” Preposition
- אֶחָ֛ד ʼechâd H259 “one” Adjective, Cardinal number, Masculine, Singular, Absolute
- לְעֵ֣ץ ʻêts H6086 “to/for · tree” Preposition + Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute
- אֶחָ֑ד ʼechâd H259 “one” Adjective, Cardinal number, Masculine, Singular, Absolute
- וְהָי֥וּ hâyâh H1961 “and · to be” Conjunction + Verb, Qal, Sequential Perfect, 3rd Person, Common, Plural
- לַאֲחָדִ֖ים ʼechâd H259 “to/for the · one” Preposition, Determined + Adjective, Cardinal number, Masculine, Plural, Absolute
- בְּיָדֶֽךָ yâd H3027 “in/at · hand · your” Preposition + Noun, Common, Both, Singular, Construct + Suffix, Personal, 2nd 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 →
- 11
- words
- 7
- distinct lemmas
- Prophets
- section
Grammatical profile
- 2 verbs
- 2 nouns
- 4 adjectives
- 2 prepositions
- 1 particle
Verb forms
- וְקָרַ֨ב Piel · Imperative
- וְהָי֥וּ Qal · Sequential Perfect
Repetition
A word recurs within this verse — often emphatic in Hebrew:
- אֶחָ֧ד one H259 ×4
Hebrew & Septuagint length
In English translation the verse runs 19 words from the Hebrew and 25 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 11 Hebrew tokens and 18 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
5Topical passages linked to Ezekiel 37:17 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.
- Jeremiah 50:4 In those days, and in that time, says Yahweh, the children of Israel shall come, they and the children of Judah together; they shall go on their way weeping, and shall seek Yahweh their God.
- Hosea 1:11 The children of Judah and the children of Israel will be gathered together, and they will appoint themselves one head, and will go up from the land; for great will be the day of Jezreel.
- Isaiah 11:13 The envy also of Ephraim shall depart, and those who vex Judah shall be cut off: Ephraim shall not envy Judah, and Judah shall not vex Ephraim.
- Ezekiel 37:22–24 and I will make them one nation in the land, on the mountains of Israel; and one king shall be king to them all; and they shall be no more two nations, neither shall they be divided into two kingdoms any more at all;
- Zephaniah 3:9 For then I will purify the lips of the peoples, that they may all call on the name of Yahweh, to serve him shoulder to shoulder.
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.
καί συνἅπτω αὐτός πρός ἀλλήλω σεαυτοῦ εἰς ῥάβδος εἷς ὁ δέω αὐτός καί εἰμί ἐν ὁ χείρ σύ
And you shall joint them together for yourself, so as that they should bind themselves into one stick; and they shall be in your hand.
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)
וְתַקְרֵיב יַתְהוֹן חַד לְוַת חַד לָךְ לְלוּחָא חַד וִיהוֹן לְחוֹד בִּידָךְ:
(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
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Ezekiel, in the Prophets, opens this verse with 11 words (7 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is qârab (“to approach”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Discussion questions
- How does “to approach” (qârab) shape what this verse is saying?
- How does Jeremiah 50:4, which shares this passage’s theme, read alongside this verse?
- What does the repetition of “one” (4× in this one verse) do in this verse?
- These translations render this verse differently; the difference is in the English rendering, not the original. What questions does that raise?
- «וְקָרַ֨ב» is a Piel Imperative verb. How does that grammatical form shape the action described?
- Compare how Trapp's Complete Commentary and John Gill's Exposition read this verse. Where do they agree or differ?
Things to notice
- This verse counts 11 Hebrew ↔ 18 Greek words.
- These translations choose different wording for 8 words in this verse.
- “one” occurs 4× in this single verse.
- 7 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 11 words in this verse.
Commentary
Notes on Ezekiel 37:17 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
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
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
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible (1683–1685) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.
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.