The west side shall be the great sea, from the [south] border as far as over against the entrance of Hamath. This is the west side.
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The west side shall be the great sea, from the [south] border as far as over against the entrance of Hamath. This is the west side.
The west side also shall be the great sea from the border, till a man come over against Hamath. This is the west side.
Then the boundary on the west side will be the Great Sea to a point opposite Lebo Hamath. This will be the west side.
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The west side shall be the great sea, from the [south] border as far as over against the entrance of Hamath. This is the west side.
And on the west side, the Great Sea will be the boundary up to a point opposite Lebo-hamath. This will be the western boundary.
And on the west side, the Great Sea will be the boundary up to a point opposite Lebo-hamath. This will be the western boundary.
The west side also shall be the great sea from the border, till a man come over against Hamath. This is the west side.
And the west side shall be the great sea, from the `south' border as far as over against the entrance of Hamath. This is the west side.
And the west side shall be the great sea, from the south border as far as over against the entering in of Hamath. This is the west side.
The West parte also shalbe the great sea from the border, till a man come ouer against Hamath: this shalbe the West part.
And the side toward the sea, is the great sea from the borders straight on, till thou come to Emath: this is the side of the sea.
`And the west quarter `is' the great sea, from the border till over-against the coming in to Hamath: this `is' the west quarter.
And the west quarter [is] the Great Sea, from the border until opposite the coming in to Hamath: this [is] the west quarter.
Then the boundary on the west side will be the Great Sea to a point opposite Lebo Hamath. This will be the west side.
Then the boundary on the west side will be the Great Sea to a point opposite Lebo Hamath. This will be the west side.
-- And the west side shall be the great sea from the border, as far as over against the entering into Hamath: this is the west side.
“The west side shall be the great sea, from the south border as far as opposite the entrance of Hamath. This is the west side.
The west side also shall be the great sea from the border, till a man cometh over against Hamath. This is the west side.
The Mediterranean Sea is the western boundary all the way up to a location opposite Lebo-hamath. This is the western boundary.
And the west side will be the Great Sea, from the limit on the south to a point opposite the way into Hamath. This is the west side.
And the west side shall be the Great Sea, from the border as far as over against the entrance of Hamath. This is the west side.
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Notable vocabulary
The rarest word here is נֹ֖כַח opposite H5227 — appearing just 23 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.
Shared distinctive vocabulary
נֹ֖כַח opposite H5227 occurs in 22 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:
Grammatical profile
Repetition
Words recur within this verse — often emphatic in Hebrew:
Hebrew & Septuagint length
In English translation the verse runs 26 words from the Hebrew and 31 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 12 Hebrew tokens and 22 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.
Topical passages linked to Ezekiel 47:20 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.
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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.
וּפְאַת יָם֙ הַיָּ֣ם הַגָּד֔וֹל מִגְּב֕וּל עַד נֹ֖כַח לְב֣וֹא חֲמָ֑ת זֹ֖את פְּאַת יָֽם
The west side shall be the great sea, from the [south] border as far as over against the entrance of Hamath. This is the west side.
World English Bible · Public Domain
οὗτος ὁ μέρος ὁ θάλασσα ὁ μέγας ὁρίζω ἕως κατέναντι ὁ εἴσοδος ημαθ ἕως εἴσοδος αὐτός οὗτος εἰμί ὁ πρός θάλασσα ημαθ
This part of the great sea forms a border, till one comes opposite the entrance of Emath, even as far as the entrance thereof. These are the parts west of Emath.
LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) · Public Domain
On this verse, Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary discusses the Septuagint’s reading. Read the note in Commentary ↓
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 →
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וְרוּחַ מֵעַרְבָא יַמָא רַבָּא מִתְּחוּמָא עַד מִקֳבֵיל מַעֲלָנָא דַחֲמָת דָא רוּחַ מַעֲרָבָא:
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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.
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Ezekiel, in the Prophets, opens this verse with 12 words (9 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is nôkach (“opposite”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Commentary
Notes on Ezekiel 47:20 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
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.
Joseph Benson's Commentary
Joseph Benson's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments (1811–1818) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
Adam Clarke's Commentary
Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible (1810–1826) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers
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
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
John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible (1746–1763) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.
Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary
George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), Haydock's Catholic Family Bible and Commentary, 1859 edition — public domain. Excludes Psalms (Douay-Rheims chapter numbering differs from Protestant) and Deuterocanonical books (Catholic canon only).
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.
The Pulpit Commentary
The Pulpit Commentary (1880–1919), ed. H.D.M. Spence-Jones & Joseph S. Exell — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword 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.