Ezekiel 44:14

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) Ezekiel 44:14 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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Yet will I make them keepers of the charge of the house, for all the service of it, and for all that shall be done therein.
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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
    Yet will I make them keepers of the charge of the house, for all the service of it, and for all that shall be done therein.
  • King James Version Public Domain
    But I will make them keepers of the charge of the house, for all the service thereof, and for all that shall be done therein.
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
    But I will place them as keepers of the work in the house, for all of its duties and everything that is done in it.

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Every available English version of this verse, each an independent rendering of the whole verse.

  • World English Bible Public Domain
    Yet will I make them keepers of the charge of the house, for all the service of it, and for all that shall be done therein.
  • Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
    Yet I will appoint them to keep charge of all the work for the temple and everything to be done in it.
  • Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
    Yet I will appoint them to keep charge of all the work for the temple and everything to be done in it.
  • King James Version Public Domain
    But I will make them keepers of the charge of the house, for all the service thereof, and for all that shall be done therein.
  • American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
    Yet will I make them keepers of the charge of the house, for all the service thereof, and for all that shall be done therein.
  • Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
    Yet will I make them keepers of the charge of the house, for all the service thereof, and for all that shall be done therein.
  • Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
    And I will make them keepers of ye watch of the House, for all the seruice thereof, and for all that shalbe done therein.
  • Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
    And I will make them doorkeepers of the house, for all the service thereof, and for all that shall be done therein.
  • Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
    and I made them keepers of the charge of the house, for all its service and for all that is done in it.
  • Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
    and I made them keepers of the charge of the house, for all its service and for all that is done in it.
  • Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
    But I will place them as keepers of the work in the house, for all of its duties and everything that is done in it.
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
    But I will place them as keepers of the work in the house, for all of its duties and everything that is done in it.
  • Darby Bible Public Domain
    And I will make them keepers of the charge of the house, for all the service thereof, and for all that shall be done therein.
  • World Messianic Bible Public Domain
    Yet I will make them performers of the duty of the house, for all its service and for all that will be done therein.
  • Webster's Bible Public Domain
    But I will make them keepers of the charge of the house, for all its service, and for all that shall be done therein.
  • Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
    However, I will put them in charge of all Temple work and everything that needs to be done there.
  • Bible in Basic English Public Domain
    But I will make them responsible for the care of the house and all its work and everything which is done in it.
  • JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
    And I will make them keepers of the charge of the house, for all the service thereof, and for all that shall be done therein.

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מִשְׁמֶ֣רֶת
mishmereth
H4931
“guard of”
Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Construct
Part of Speech
Noun
Type
Common
Gender
Feminine
Number
Singular
State
Construct
Full BDB Definition

Origin: from H4929

TWOT: 2414g

guard, charge, function, obligation, service, watch - guard, watch, house of detention or confinement - keeping, preserving - charge, injunction - office, function (ceremonial)
  1. וְנָתַתִּ֣י nâthan H5414 “and · to give” Conjunction + Verb, Qal, Sequential Perfect, 1st Person, Common, Singular
  2. אוֹתָ֔ם ʼêth H853 “- · them” Particle, Direct Object + Suffix, Personal, 3rd Person, Masculine, Plural
  3. שֹׁמְרֵ֖י shâmar H8104 “keeping” Verb, Qal, Participle Active, Masculine, Plural, Construct
  4. הַבָּ֑יִת bayith H1004 “the · house” Particle, Definite Article + Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute
  5. לְכֹל֙ kôl H3605 “to/for · all of” Preposition + Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct
  6. עֲבֹ֣דָת֔וֹ ʻăbôdâh H5656 “service · his” Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Construct + Suffix, Personal, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular
  7. וּלְכֹ֛ל kôl H3605 “and · to/for · all” Conjunction + Preposition + Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute
  8. אֲשֶׁ֥ר ʼăsher H834 “which” Particle, Relative
  9. יֵעָשֶׂ֖ה ʻâsâh H6213 “to do” Verb, Niphal, Imperfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular

About this verse

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11
words
9
distinct lemmas
Prophets
section

Grammatical profile

  • 3 verbs
  • 5 nouns
  • 1 preposition
  • 2 particles

Verb forms

  • וְנָתַתִּ֣י Qal · Sequential Perfect
  • שֹׁמְרֵ֖י Qal · Participle Active
  • יֵעָשֶׂ֖ה Niphal · Imperfect

Repetition

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

  • לְכֹל֙ all H3605 ×2

Hebrew & Septuagint length

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

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Topical passages linked to Ezekiel 44:14 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.

  • Numbers 18:4 They shall be joined to you, and keep the charge of the tent of meeting, for all the service of the Tent: and a stranger shall not come near to you.
  • 1 Chronicles 23:28–32 For their office was to wait on the sons of Aaron for the service of the house of Yahweh, in the courts, and in the chambers, and in the purifying of all holy things, even the work of the service of the house of God;

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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.

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Hebrew Ezekiel 44:14 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

וְנָתַתִּ֣י אוֹתָ֔ם שֹׁמְרֵ֖י מִשְׁמֶ֣רֶת הַבָּ֑יִת לְכֹל֙ עֲבֹ֣דָת֔וֹ וּלְכֹ֛ל אֲשֶׁ֥ר יֵעָשֶׂ֖ה בּֽוֹ

Yet will I make them keepers of the charge of the house, for all the service of it, and for all that shall be done therein.

World English Bible · Public Domain

Greek LXX Ezekiel 44:14 Septuagint · lemma form

καί κατατάσσω αὐτός φυλάσσω φυλακή ὁ οἶκος εἰς πᾶς ὁ ἔργον αὐτός καί εἰς πᾶς ὅσος ἄν ποιέω

They shall bring them to keep the charges of the house, for all the service of it, and for all that they shall do.

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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  1. Targum Jonathan Prophets (Joshua–Malachi)
    וּמֵנִיתִי יַתְהוֹן נַטְרֵי מַטְרַת בֵּיתָא וּלְכֹל פּוּלְחָנֵי וּלְכֹל דְיִתְעֲבֵיד בֵּיהּ:

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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 44:14 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 44:14 But I will make them keepers of the charge of the house, for all the service thereof, and for all that shall be done therein.

Ver. 14. But I will make them keepers.] Which was one of the meanest offices.

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.

The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne

14. But I will make] And I will. The prophet as was natural to him takes a severe view of the conduct of the priests of the high-places, laying much of the blame of Israel’s defection upon them (Eze_44:12).

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

But I will make them keepers of the charge of the house,.... To be watchmen or porters in it; to open and shut the doors of it; to sweep and keep it clean; to repair and mend it, and to do such like works, as it follows:

for all the service thereof, and for all that shall be done therein; in a servile way; but not as priests or ministers of the word.

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

See Eze 44:11.

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

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 mishmereth (“guard”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

  1. How does “guard” (mishmereth) shape what this verse is saying?
  2. Numbers 18:4 shares this passage’s theme. How do the two illuminate each other?
  3. “all” occurs 2× in this one verse. What is the effect of the repetition?
  4. These translations render this verse differently. What is at stake in choosing one wording over another?
  5. The verb «וְנָתַתִּ֣י» is Qal Sequential Perfect. How does its form color the action?
  6. Reading how Trapp's Complete Commentary and The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges read this verse, where do the two commentators agree and where do they part?

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