Ezekiel 39:24

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex)

English Translation

According to their uncleanness and according to their transgressions did I to them; and I hid my face from them.

World English Bible · Public Domain

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כְּטֻמְאָתָ֥ם

ṭumʼâh

H2932

“like/as · uncleanness · their”

Preposition + Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Construct + Suffix, Personal, 3rd Person, Masculine, Plural

Appears 36× in the Hebrew Bible
First appears at Leviticus 5:3

Full BDB Definition

Origin: from H2930

TWOT: 809b

uncleanness - sexual - of filthy mass - ethical and religious - ritual - local (of nations)

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

כְּטֻמְאָתָ֥ם uncleanness H2932 occurs in 31 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:

Grammatical profile

2 verbs
3 nouns
1 preposition
1 particle

Verb forms

עָשִׂ֣יתִי Qal · Perfect
וָאַסְתִּ֥ר Hiphil · Sequential Imperfect

Hebrew & Septuagint length

In English translation the verse runs 20 words from the Hebrew and 22 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

Topical passages linked to Ezekiel 39:24 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.

Ezekiel 36:19 and I scattered them among the nations, and they were dispersed through the countries: according to their way and according to their doings I judged them.
Jeremiah 2:17 Haven't you procured this to yourself, in that you have forsaken Yahweh your God, when he led you by the way?
Jeremiah 2:19 Your own wickedness shall correct you, and your backsliding shall reprove you: know therefore and see that it is an evil thing and a bitter, that you have forsaken Yahweh your God, and that my fear is not in you, says the Lord, Yahweh of Hosts.
Jeremiah 4:18 Your way and your doings have procured these things to you; this is your wickedness; for it is bitter, for it reaches to your heart.
Leviticus 26:24 then I will also walk contrary to you; and I will strike you, even I, seven times for your sins.
2 Kings 17:7–23 It was so, because the children of Israel had sinned against Yahweh their God, who brought them up out of the land of Egypt from under the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and had feared other gods,
Isaiah 1:20 But if you refuse and rebel, you shall be devoured with the sword; For the mouth of Yahweh has spoken it."
Isaiah 3:11 Woe to the wicked! Disaster is upon them; For the deeds of his hands will be paid back to him.

Isaiah 59:17–18 He put on righteousness as a breastplate, and a helmet of salvation on his head; and he put on garments of vengeance for clothing, and was clad with zeal as a mantle.
Jeremiah 5:25 Your iniquities have turned away these things, and your sins have withheld good from you.
Daniel 9:5–10 we have sinned, and have dealt perversely, and have done wickedly, and have rebelled, even turning aside from your precepts and from your ordinances;

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Hebrew and Greek witnesses Masoretic Hebrew ↔ Greek Septuagint

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Hebrew Ezekiel 39:24 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

כְּטֻמְאָתָ֥ם וּכְפִשְׁעֵיהֶ֖ם עָשִׂ֣יתִי אֹתָ֑ם וָאַסְתִּ֥ר פָּנַ֖י מֵהֶֽם

According to their uncleanness and according to their transgressions did I to them; and I hid my face from them.

World English Bible · Public Domain

Greek LXX Ezekiel 39:24 Septuagint · lemma form

κατά ὁ ἀκαθαρσία αὐτός καί κατά ὁ ἀνόμημα αὐτός ποιέω αὐτός καί ἀποστρέφω ὁ πρόσωπον ἐγώ ἀπό αὐτός

According to their uncleannesses and according to their transgressions did I deal with them, and I turned away my face from 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)

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Targum Jonathan Prophets (Joshua–Malachi)

כְּסוֹאֲבָתְהוֹן וּכְמֵירְדֵיהוֹן אִתְפְּרָעֵית מִנְהוֹן וְסַלְקֵית שְׁכִנְתִּי מִנְהוֹן:

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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 39:24 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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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne

24. have I done unto them] did I do unto them.

Eze_39:25 seq. The prophet returns to the point of view occupied in ch. 33–37, before the restoration of Israel. The transition is suggested by the words I hid my face from them (Eze_39:24). This shall no more be (Eze_39:29); they shall be restored, and dwell safely in their land (Eze_39:26), and Jehovah shall be their God in truth.

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.

Trapp's Complete Commentary

John Trapp

Eze 39:24 According to their uncleanness and according to their transgressions have I done unto them, and hid my face from them.

Ver. 24. According to their uncleanness.] I have not shown my sovereignty, or exercised tyranny towards them, but done them right.

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

According to their uncleanness,.... Not ceremonial, but moral; they were an impure and adulterous generation, as our Lord calls them, Mat 12:39,

and according to their transgressions have I done unto them; or "rebellions", as the Targum renders it; or defections, as the word (k) signifies; their rebellions against the King Messiah; their defections from him; their contempt of him, and rejection of his yoke, and non-submission to his ordinances; according to the desert of such crimes, the Lord dealt with them;

"took vengeance on them,''

as the Targum is; in the destruction of their nation, city, and temple: "and hid my face from them"; or caused his Shechaniah to remove from them, as the same paraphrase; See Gill on Eze 39:23.

(k) "secundum defectiones eorum", Junius & Tremellius, Polanus, Starckius; "pro defectionibus ipsorum", Cocceius.

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

Whatever severity I have seemed to use, it was but according to their sins, yet less than their sins, in punishing and hiding my face from them.

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 7 words (6 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is ṭumʼâh (“uncleanness”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

How does “uncleanness” (ṭumʼâh) shape what this verse is saying?
How does Leviticus 5:3, which shares the word «uncleanness», read alongside this verse?
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?
«עָשִׂ֣יתִי» is a Qal Perfect verb. How does that grammatical form shape the action described?
Compare how The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges and Trapp's Complete Commentary read this verse. Where do they agree or differ?

Things to notice

These translations choose different wording for 6 words in this verse.
6 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 7 words in this verse.