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Ezekiel 4:11

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) Ezekiel 4:11 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 drink water by measure, the sixth part of a hin: from time to time shall you drink.
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  • World English Bible Public Domain
    You shall drink water by measure, the sixth part of a hin: from time to time shall you drink.
  • King James Version Public Domain
    Thou shalt drink also water by measure, the sixth part of an hin: from time to time shalt thou drink.
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
    Then you will drink water, measured out to a sixth of a hin, and you will drink it at set times.

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 drink water by measure, the sixth part of a hin: from time to time shall you drink.
  • Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
    You are also to measure out a sixth of a hin of water to drink, and you are to drink it at set times.
  • Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
    You are also to measure out a sixth of a hin of water to drink, and you are to drink it at set times.
  • King James Version Public Domain
    Thou shalt drink also water by measure, the sixth part of an hin: from time to time shalt thou drink.
  • American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
    And thou shalt drink water by measure, the sixth part of a hin: from time to time shalt thou drink.
  • Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
    And thou shalt drink water by measure, the sixth part of an hin: from time to time shalt thou drink.
  • Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
    Thou shalt drinke also water by measure, euen the sixt part of an Hin: from time to time shalt thou drinke.
  • Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
    And thou shalt drink water by measure, the sixth part of a hin: from time to time thou shalt drink it,
  • Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
    `And water by measure thou dost drink, a sixth part of the hin; from time to time thou dost drink `it'.
  • Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
    And you drink water by measure, a sixth part of the hin; from time to time you drink [it].
  • Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
    Then you will drink water, measured out to a sixth of a hin, and you will drink it at set times.
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
    Then you will drink water, measured out to a sixth of a hin, and you will drink it at set times.
  • Darby Bible Public Domain
    And thou shalt drink water by measure, the sixth part of a hin: from time to time shalt thou drink.
  • World Messianic Bible Public Domain
    You shall drink water by measure, the sixth part of a hin. From time to time you shall drink.
  • Webster's Bible Public Domain
    Thou shalt drink also water by measure, the sixth part of a hin: from time to time shalt thou drink.
  • Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
    Measure out a sixth of a hin of water to drink, and you are to drink it at regular times.
  • Bible in Basic English Public Domain
    And you are to take water by measure, the sixth part of a hin: you are to take it at regular times.
  • JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
    Thou shalt drink also water by measure, the sixth part of a hin; from time to time shalt thou drink.

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Notable vocabulary

The rarest word here is בִּמְשׂוּרָ֥ה measure H4884 — appearing just 4 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.

Shared distinctive vocabulary

בִּמְשׂוּרָ֥ה measure H4884 occurs in 4 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:

Grammatical profile

  • 2 verbs
  • 5 nouns
  • 1 adjective
  • 1 preposition

Verb forms

  • תִשְׁתֶּ֖ה Qal · Imperfect
  • תִּשְׁתֶּֽה Qal · Imperfect

Repetition

Words recur within this verse — often emphatic in Hebrew:

  • תִשְׁתֶּ֖ה to drink H8354 ×2
  • מֵעֵ֥ת time H6256 ×2

Hebrew & Septuagint length

In English translation the verse runs 19 words from the Hebrew and 21 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 9 Hebrew tokens and 14 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.

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Topical passages linked to Ezekiel 4:11 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.

  • Isaiah 5:13 Therefore my people go into captivity for lack of knowledge; Their honorable men are famished, And their multitudes are parched with thirst.
  • Ezekiel 4:16 Moreover he said to me, Son of man, behold, I will break the staff of bread in Jerusalem: and they shall eat bread by weight, and with fearfulness; and they shall drink water by measure, and in dismay:
  • John 3:34 For he whom God has sent speaks the words of God; for God gives the Spirit without measure.

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Hebrew and Greek witnesses Masoretic Hebrew ↔ Greek Septuagint

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Hebrew Ezekiel 4:11 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

וּמַ֛יִם בִּמְשׂוּרָ֥ה תִשְׁתֶּ֖ה שִׁשִּׁ֣ית הַהִ֑ין מֵעֵ֥ת עַד עֵ֖ת תִּשְׁתֶּֽה

You shall drink water by measure, the sixth part of a hin: from time to time shall you drink.

World English Bible · Public Domain

Greek LXX Ezekiel 4:11 Septuagint · lemma form

καί ὕδωρ ἐν μέτρον πίνω ὁ ἕκτος ὁ ιν ἀπό καιρός ἕως καιρός πίνω

And you shall drink water by measure, even from time to time you shall drink the sixth part of a hin.

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)
    וּמַיָא בִּמְכִילָא תִשְׁתֵּי חַד מִן שַׁתָּא בְּהִינָא מֵעִדַן עַד עִדַן תִּשְׁתֵּי:

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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 4:11 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 4:11 Thou shalt drink also water by measure, the sixth part of an hin: from time to time shalt thou drink.

Ver. 11. From time to time shalt thou drink,] i.e., At thy set times, in stata tempera comparcito, make no waste: the least drop is precious.

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

Read Exod. 29:40.

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

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown

sixth . . . of . . . hin--about a pint and a half.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown — Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers

(11) The sixth part of an hin.—There is also a difference among the authorities as to the measures of capacity for liquids. These would make the sixth part of an hin from six-tenths to nine-tenths of a pint. This also was to be drunk once a day.

A Bible Commentary for English Readers, edited by Charles John Ellicott (1878–1897) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne

11. sixth part of a hin] The hin was rather less than a gallon, and the sixth part under a quart. Both the bread and water were to be consumed from time to time, always in unsatisfying quantities.

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.

John Gill's Exposition

Thou shall drink also water by measure,.... Not wine, but water; and this not as much as he would, but a certain measure; which shows great want of it, and expresses a very distressed condition see Lam 5:4;

the sixth part of an hin; a hin held twelve logs, or seventy two egg shells, or about three quarts of our measure; and the sixth part of one were two logs, or twelve egg shells, and about a pint of our measure; so that it was but a pint of water a day that the prophet was allowed, as a token of the great scarcity of it in the siege of Jerusalem:

from time to time shalt thou drink: as before.

John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible (1746–1763) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Water by measure - This probably corresponds to the water of affliction 1Ki 22:27; Isa 30:20. The measure of the hin is variously estimated by Jewish writers. The sixth part of a hin will be according to one estimate about 610ths, according to another 910ths of a pint. The lesser estimate is more suitable here.

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible (1834–1885) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.

Matthew Poole's English Annotations

Water; not wine or cordial drinks, but cold and thin water, nor a bellyful of this.

The sixth part of an hin; about six ounces of water, and that measured out by others to him that drinks it, scarce enough to keep the man alive. Such proportions of bread and water rather fed death than the man, yet more could not be had when the besiegers were masters of both fields and fountains, and cut off all from the city.

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

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible

Daniel D. Whedon

11. The sixth… of a hin — A hin Isa_6:07 liters (Kautzsch). A liter contained 1.056 quarts, so one sixth hin would be a little more than two pints; terribly little in so hot a country. Surely this might have been called the “bread of affliction and the water of affliction” (1Ki_22:27; Isa_30:20).

Daniel D. Whedon (gen. ed.), Commentary on the Old and New Testaments (1874–1909) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

The Pulpit Commentary

The sixth, part of a hin, etc. According to the varying accounts of the "hin" given by Jewish writers, this would give from.6 to.9 of a pint. And this was, like the food, to be doled out once a day. Possibly "the bread of affliction and the water of affliction," in 1Ki_22:27. Isa_30:20, contains a reference to the quantity as well as thequality of a prison dietary as thus described. Isaiah"s words may refer to the siege of Sennacherib, as Ezekiel"s do to the siege of Nebuchadnezzar.

The Pulpit Commentary (1880–1919), ed. H.D.M. Spence-Jones & Joseph S. Exell — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

John Wesley's Explanatory Notes

The sixth part - About six ounces.

John Wesley, Explanatory Notes Upon the Whole Bible (1754–1765) — public domain. Text via the GEBible commentary corpus.

Rashi

Rabbi Shlomo Yitzchaki (Rashi)

from time to time From day to day you shall drink with this measure, viz. a sixth of a hin.

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.

Lesson kit

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Ezekiel, in the Prophets, opens this verse with 9 words (7 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is mᵉsûwrâh (“measure”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

  1. What does “measure” (mᵉsûwrâh) contribute to the verse as a whole?
  2. How does Leviticus 19:35, which shares the word «measure», read alongside this verse?
  3. What does the repetition of “to drink” (2× in this one verse) do in this verse?
  4. These translations render this verse differently; the difference is in the English rendering, not the original. What questions does that raise?
  5. «תִשְׁתֶּ֖ה» is a Qal Imperfect 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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