Ezekiel 48:27

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex)

English Translation

By the border of Zebulun, from the east side to the west side, Gad, one [portion].

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זְבוּלֻ֗ן

Zᵉbûwlûwn

H2074

“Zebulun”

Noun, Proper

Appears 45× in the Hebrew Bible
First appears at Genesis 30:20

Full BDB Definition

Origin: from H2082

TWOT: 526b

Zebulun = "exalted" - the 10th of the sons of Jacob, 6th and last of Leah; progenitor of Zebulun (noun proper masculine) - the tribe descended from Zebulun (noun proper masculine) - the land allocated to the tribe of Zebulun (noun proper locative)

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

Shared distinctive vocabulary

זְבוּלֻ֗ן Zebulun H2074 occurs in 43 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:

Grammatical profile

7 nouns
1 adjective
2 prepositions

Repetition

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

מִפְּאַ֥ת corner H6285 ×2

Hebrew & Septuagint length

In English translation the verse runs 16 words from the Hebrew and 15 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 16 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

Topical passages linked to Ezekiel 48:27 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.

Joshua 13:24–28 Moses gave to the tribe of Gad, to the children of Gad, according to their families.
Genesis 30:10–11 Zilpah, Leah's handmaid, bore Jacob a son.

Cross-references courtesy of OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0).

Hebrew and Greek witnesses Masoretic Hebrew ↔ Greek Septuagint

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Hebrew Ezekiel 48:27 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

וְעַ֣ל גְּב֣וּל זְבוּלֻ֗ן מִפְּאַ֥ת קָדִ֛מָה עַד פְּאַת יָ֖מָּה גָּ֥ד אֶחָֽד

By the border of Zebulun, from the east side to the west side, Gad, one [portion].

World English Bible · Public Domain

Greek LXX Ezekiel 48:27 Septuagint · lemma form

καί ἀπό ὁ ὅριον ὁ ζαβουλων ἀπό ὁ πρός ἀνατολή ἕως ὁ πρός θάλασσα γαδ εἷς

And from the borders of Zabulon, from the east to the western parts, Gad, one.

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)

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.

Targum Jonathan Prophets (Joshua–Malachi)

וְעַל תְּחוּם זְבוּלֻן מֵרוּחַ מַדִינְחָא עַד רוּחַ מַעֲרָבָא גָד חָד:

(no public-domain English translation for this verse)

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 48:27 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 48:27 And by the border of Zebulun, from the east side unto the west side, Gad a [portion].

Ver. 27. {See Trapp on "Eze 48:2"} {See Trapp on "Eze 48:3"} {See Trapp on "Eze 48:4"} {See Trapp on "Eze 48:5"} {See Trapp on "Eze 48:6"} {See Trapp on "Eze 48:7"}

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

At the west side four thousand and five hundred,.... Measures or reeds; so many were the length of this side; the same with north, south, and east, and made a foursquare; and such the city was, as the New Jerusalem is said to be, Rev 21:16,

with their three gates: one gate of Gad, one gate of Asher, one gate of Naphtali; the situation of these gates on all sides, east, west, north, and south, show that in the latter day people will flock from all quarters to the church of Christ, and that there will be an open and free access of all persons into it; see Isa 2:2.

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

Thus all the tribes have their inheritances assigned them, but their lot is not here as in Joshua’s division. It was a new church and state that was here intended, and accordingly many changes are made in it, which differenced it from the old; which changes no doubt are instructive, but the particular instructions fall not within the design of a paraphrase or comment, which is to make the letter of the text plain to ordinary capacities.

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

General Information:

Yahweh continues giving Ezekiel his message to the people of Israel.

Tamar ... Meribah Kadesh

names of towns. See how you translated this in Ezekiel 47:19. (See: How to Translate Names)

the brook of Egypt

a very large ravine in the northeast part of the Sinai. See how you translated this in Ezekiel 47:19. (See: How to Translate Names)

you

This is plural and refers to the people of Israel. (See: Forms of You)

cast lots

See how you translated this in Ezekiel 45:1.

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

Zebulun

Gad

Tamar

Kadesh

the sea

lots

inherit

twelve tribes of Israel

Lord Yahweh

declare

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

Discussion questions

The word Zᵉbûwlûwn carries the sense “Zebulun.” How does it shape the verse?
Genesis 30:20 shares the word «Zebulun» with this verse. How do the two illuminate each other?
“corner” occurs 2× in this one verse. What is the effect of the repetition?
These translations render this verse differently. What is at stake in choosing one wording over another?
Reading how Trapp's Complete Commentary and John Gill's Exposition read this verse, where do the two commentators agree and where do they part?

Things to notice

This verse counts 10 Hebrew ↔ 16 Greek words.
These translations choose different wording for 11 words in this verse.
“corner” occurs 2× in this single verse.
9 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 10 words in this verse.