Ezekiel 48:33

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) Ezekiel 48:33 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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At the south side four thousand and five hundred [reeds] by measure, and three gates: the gate of Simeon, one; the gate of Issachar, one; the gate of Zebulun, one.
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  • World English Bible Public Domain
    At the south side four thousand and five hundred [reeds] by measure, and three gates: the gate of Simeon, one; the gate of Issachar, one; the gate of Zebulun, one.
  • King James Version Public Domain
    And at the south side four thousand and five hundred measures: and three gates; one gate of Simeon, one gate of Issachar, one gate of Zebulun.
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
    On the south side, which is 4,500 cubits in length, will be three gates: one gate for Simeon, one gate for Issachar, and one gate for Zebulun.

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
    At the south side four thousand and five hundred [reeds] by measure, and three gates: the gate of Simeon, one; the gate of Issachar, one; the gate of Zebulun, one.
  • Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
    On the south side, which will be 4,500 cubits long, there will be three gates: the gate of Simeon, the gate of Issachar, and the gate of Zebulun.
  • Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
    On the south side, which will be 4,500 cubits long, there will be three gates: the gate of Simeon, the gate of Issachar, and the gate of Zebulun.
  • King James Version Public Domain
    And at the south side four thousand and five hundred measures: and three gates; one gate of Simeon, one gate of Issachar, one gate of Zebulun.
  • American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
    And at the south side four thousand and five hundred `reeds' by measure, and three gates: the gate of Simeon, one; the gate of Issachar, one; the gate of Zebulun, one.
  • Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
    And at the south side four thousand and five hundred reeds by measure; and three gates: the gate of Simeon, one; the gate of Issachar, one; the gate of Zebulun, one.
  • Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
    And at the South side, fiue hundreth and foure thousande measures, and three portes, one gate of Simeon, one gate of Isshachar, and one gate of Zebulun.
  • Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
    And at the south side, thou shalt measure four thousand and five hundred: and three gates, the gate of Simeon one, the gate of Issachar one, the gate of Zabulon one.
  • Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
    And the south side five hundred, and four thousand measures, and three gates: the gate of Simeon one, the gate of Issachar one, the gate of Zebulun one.
  • Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
    And the south side, four thousand and five hundred, and three gates—one gate of Simeon, one gate of Issachar, one gate of Zebulun.
  • Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
    On the south side, which is 4,500 cubits in length, will be three gates: one gate for Simeon, one gate for Issachar, and one gate for Zebulun.
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
    On the south side, which is 4,500 cubits in length, will be three gates: one gate for Simeon, one gate for Issachar, and one gate for Zebulun.
  • Darby Bible Public Domain
    And at the south side four thousand and five hundred [cubits] by measure, and three gates: the gate of Simeon, one; the gate of Issachar, one; the gate of Zebulun, one.
  • World Messianic Bible Public Domain
    “At the south side four thousand five hundred reeds by measure, and three gates: the gate of Simeon, one; the gate of Issachar, one; the gate of Zebulun, one.
  • Webster's Bible Public Domain
    And at the south side four thousand and five hundred measures: and three gates; one gate of Simeon, one gate of Issachar, one gate of Zebulun.
  • Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
    There will be three gates on the south side (also 4,500 cubits long): the gates of Simeon, Issachar, and Zebulun.
  • Bible in Basic English Public Domain
    And at the south side, four thousand five hundred by measure, and three doors, one for Simeon, one for Issachar, one for Zebulun;
  • JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
    and at the south side four thousand and five hundred reeds by measure; and three gates: the gate of Simeon, one; the gate of Issachar, one; the gate of Zebulun, one;

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יִשָּׂשכָר֙
Yissâˢkâr
H3485
“Issachar”
Noun, Proper
Part of Speech
Noun
Type
Proper
Full BDB Definition

Origin: from H5375 and H7939

TWOT: None

Issachar = "there is recompense" - the 9th son of Jacob and the 5th by Leah his first wife and the progenitor of a tribe by his name (noun proper masculine) - a Korahite Levite and the 7th son of Obed-edom and doorkeeper to the temple (noun proper masculine) - the tribe descended from Issachar the son of Jacob (noun proper collective) - the territory allocated to the descendants of Issachar when they entered the land of Canaan (noun proper locative)
  1. וּפְאַת pêʼâh H6285 “and · corner of” Conjunction + Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Construct
  2. נֶ֗גְבָּה negeb H5045 “south · toward” Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute + Suffix, Demonstrative
  3. חֲמֵ֨שׁ châmêsh H2568 “five” Adjective, Cardinal number, Feminine, Singular, Absolute
  4. מֵא֜וֹת mêʼâh H3967 “hundred” Adjective, Cardinal number, Both, Plural, Absolute
  5. וְאַרְבַּ֤עַת ʼarbaʻ H702 “and · four” Conjunction + Adjective, Cardinal number, Masculine, Singular, Construct
  6. אֲלָפִים֙ ʼeleph H505 “thousand” Adjective, Cardinal number, Both, Plural, Absolute
  7. מִדָּ֔ה middâh H4060 “measure” Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute
  8. וּשְׁעָרִ֖ים shaʻar H8179 “and · gates” Conjunction + Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Absolute
  9. שְׁלֹשָׁ֑ה shâlôwsh H7969 “three” Adjective, Cardinal number, Masculine, Singular, Absolute
  10. שַׁ֣עַר shaʻar H8179 “gate of” Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct
  11. שִׁמְע֞וֹן Shimʻôwn H8095 “Simeon” Noun, Proper
  12. אֶחָ֗ד ʼechâd H259 “one” Adjective, Cardinal number, Masculine, Singular, Absolute
  13. שַׁ֤עַר shaʻar H8179 “gate of” Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct
  14. אֶחָ֔ד ʼechâd H259 “one” Adjective, Cardinal number, Masculine, Singular, Absolute
  15. שַׁ֥עַר shaʻar H8179 “gate of” Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct
  16. זְבוּלֻ֖ן Zᵉbûwlûwn H2074 “Zebulun” Noun, Proper
  17. אֶחָֽד ʼechâd H259 “one” Adjective, Cardinal number, Masculine, Singular, Absolute

About this verse

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18
words
13
distinct lemmas
Prophets
section

Shared distinctive vocabulary

יִשָּׂשכָר֙ Issachar H3485 occurs in 40 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:

Grammatical profile

  • 10 nouns
  • 8 adjectives

Repetition

Words recur within this verse — often emphatic in Hebrew:

  • וּשְׁעָרִ֖ים gate H8179 ×4
  • אֶחָ֗ד one H259 ×3

Hebrew & Septuagint length

In English translation the verse runs 30 words from the Hebrew and 29 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 18 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.

Hebrew and Greek witnesses Masoretic Hebrew ↔ Greek Septuagint

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.

Hebrew Ezekiel 48:33 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

וּפְאַת נֶ֗גְבָּה חֲמֵ֨שׁ מֵא֜וֹת וְאַרְבַּ֤עַת אֲלָפִים֙ מִדָּ֔ה וּשְׁעָרִ֖ים שְׁלֹשָׁ֑ה שַׁ֣עַר שִׁמְע֞וֹן אֶחָ֗ד שַׁ֤עַר יִשָּׂשכָר֙ אֶחָ֔ד שַׁ֥עַר זְבוּלֻ֖ן אֶחָֽד

At the south side four thousand and five hundred [reeds] by measure, and three gates: the gate of Simeon, one; the gate of Issachar, one; the gate of Zebulun, one.

World English Bible · Public Domain

Greek LXX Ezekiel 48:33 Septuagint · lemma form

καί ὁ πρός νότος τετρακισχίλιοι καί πεντακόσιοι μέτρον καί πύλη τρεῖς πύλη συμεων εἷς καί πύλη ισσαχαρ εἷς καί πύλη ζαβουλων εἷς

And southward, four thousand and five hundred by measure: and three gates; the gate of Symeon, one, and the gate of Issachar, one, and the gate of Zabulon, 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)

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  1. Targum Jonathan Prophets (Joshua–Malachi)
    וּלְרוּחַ דָרוֹמָא אַרְבְּעָא אַלְפִין וַחֲמֵשׁ מְאָה מִשְׁחָן וְתַרְעִין תְּלָתָא תְּרַע שִׁמְעוֹן חָד תְּרַע יִשָׂשׂכָר חָד תְּרַע זְבוּלֻן 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 48:33 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 48:33 And at the south side four thousand and five hundred measures: and three gates; one gate of Simeon, one gate of Issachar, one gate of Zebulun.

Ver. 33. One gate of Simeon.] Here all along the tribes are reckoned, not as they were before in this chapter, but as they are set down in Numbers at the marching of the tabernacle in the midst of them, saving that whole Joseph hath here but one gate, and Levi is taken into the number of the twelve tribes. And forasmuch as it entereth not into the heart of man what God hath prepared for them that love him, and since this city is a type of heaven’s happiness, which is fitter to be believed than possible to be expressed, therefore I am the less troubled, saith good Oecolampadius here, that I understand no more of this surmounting matter.

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

33. Those on the south were Simeon, Issachar and Zebulun, tribes now all located in the south of the country. For “measures,” in measure or extent.

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.

unfoldingWord translationNotes

Door43 World Missions Community

4,500 cubits

"four thousand five hunded cubits." This is about 2.4 kilometers. (See: Numbers and Biblical Distance)

translationWords

Simeon

Issachar

Zebulun

Gad

Asher

Naphtali

name

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 18 words (13 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is Yissâˢkâr (“Issachar”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

  1. What does “Issachar” (Yissâˢkâr) contribute to the verse as a whole?
  2. How does Genesis 30:18, which shares the word «Issachar», read alongside this verse?
  3. What does the repetition of “gate” (4× 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. Compare how Trapp's Complete Commentary and The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges read this verse. Where do they agree or differ?

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