Ezekiel 39:19

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex)

English Translation

You shall eat fat until you be full, and drink blood until you be drunken, of my sacrifice which I have sacrificed for you.

World English Bible · Public Domain

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לְשִׁכָּר֑וֹן

shikkârôwn

H7943

“to/for · drunkenness”

Preposition + Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute

Appears 3× in the Hebrew Bible
First appears at Jeremiah 13:13

Full BDB Definition

Origin: from H7937

TWOT: 2388c

drunkenness

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 →

10: words
9: distinct lemmas
Prophets: section

Notable vocabulary

The rarest word here is לְשִׁכָּר֑וֹן drunkenness H7943 — appearing just 3 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.

Shared distinctive vocabulary

לְשִׁכָּר֑וֹן drunkenness H7943 occurs in 3 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:

Grammatical profile

3 verbs
5 nouns
1 preposition
1 particle

Verb forms

וַאֲכַלְתֶּם Qal · Sequential Perfect
וּשְׁתִ֥יתֶם Qal · Sequential Perfect
זָבַ֥חְתִּי Qal · Perfect

Hebrew & Septuagint length

In English translation the verse runs 24 words from the Hebrew and 26 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 10 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.

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 39:19 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

וַאֲכַלְתֶּם חֵ֣לֶב לְשָׂבְעָ֔ה וּשְׁתִ֥יתֶם דָּ֖ם לְשִׁכָּר֑וֹן מִזִּבְחִ֖י אֲשֶׁר זָבַ֥חְתִּי לָכֶֽם

You shall eat fat until you be full, and drink blood until you be drunken, of my sacrifice which I have sacrificed for you.

World English Bible · Public Domain

Greek LXX Ezekiel 39:19 Septuagint · lemma form

καί ἐσθίω στέαρ εἰς πλησμονή καί πίνω αἷμα εἰς μέθη ἀπό ὁ θυσία ἐγώ ὅς θύω σύ

And you⌃ shall eat fat till you⌃ are full, and shall drink wine till you⌃ are drunken, of my sacrifice which I have prepared for you.

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)

וְתֵיכְלוּן תַּרְבָּא לְמִסְבַּע וְתִשְׁתּוּן דְמָא מִבְּסַר קְטִילִין דִי אֲנָא קָטֵיל לְכוֹן:

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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 39:19 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 39:19 And ye shall eat fat till ye be full, and drink blood till ye be drunken, of my sacrifice which I have sacrificed for you.

Ver. 19. Of my sacrifice.] Or, Of my good cheer. So God calleth it, to show how well pleased he is with the destruction of his Church’s enemies.

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.

Adam Clarke's Commentary

Verse 19. And ye shall eat fat - and drink blood] Who shall eat and drink, c.? Not the Jews: though Voltaire says they ate human flesh, and are invited here by the prophet to eat the flesh and drink the blood of their enemies which is a most unprincipled falsehood. It is the fowls and the beasts that God invites, Eze 39:17: "Speak to every feathered fowl, and to every beast of the field, assemble yourselves-that ye may eat flesh and drink blood;" nor are the persons altered in all these verses, Eze 39:17-20: so the assertion of Voltaire is either through brutish ignorance or Satanic malice.

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 eat fat till ye be full,.... The fat of men; and such as before described generally are fat, and of which they shall have enough; and, though voracious creatures, shall eat to satiety:

and drink blood till ye be drunken; as men are with wine, who become mad with it; and so birds and beasts of prey grow fiercer by drinking blood: the meaning is, they should have their fill of the flesh, fat, and blood, of slain men:

of my sacrifice which I have sacrificed for you; the Targum is,

"of the flesh of the slain, which I have slain for you;''

See Gill on Eze 39:17.

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

Eat fat; accounted best, and which shall here be plentiful.

Till ye be full; none should fray them away, nor should any devour so much as to leave others hungry.

My sacrifice: see Eze 39:17.

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

Connecting Statement:

Yahweh continues to give Ezekiel a message for the birds and the wild animals about what they will do to Gog.

to your satisfaction

The abstract noun "satisfaction" can be stated as a verb. AT: "until you are satisfied" (See: Abstract Nouns)

until drunkenness

The abstract noun "drunkenness" can be stated as a adjective. AT: "until you become drunk" or "until you are intoxicated" (See: Abstract Nouns)

chariot

The metonym "chariot" refers to the men in the chariots. AT: "chariot driver" (See: Metonymy)

warrior, and every man of war

These two phrases mean the same thing and are repeated for emphasis. They can be combined into a single phrase. AT: "every kind of soldier" (See: Doublet)

this is the Lord Yahweh's declaration

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

translationWords

horse

chariot

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

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Ezekiel, in the Prophets, opens this verse with 10 words (9 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is shikkârôwn (“drunkenness”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

How does “drunkenness” (shikkârôwn) shape what this verse is saying?
How does Jeremiah 13:13, which shares the word «drunkenness», read alongside this verse?
These translations render this verse differently; the difference is in the English rendering, not the original. What questions does that raise?
«וַאֲכַלְתֶּם» is a Qal Sequential Perfect verb. How does that grammatical form shape the action described?
Compare how Trapp's Complete Commentary and Adam Clarke's Commentary read this verse. Where do they agree or differ?

Things to notice

This verse counts 10 Hebrew ↔ 17 Greek words.
These translations choose different wording for 12 words in this verse.
9 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 10 words in this verse.