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Ezekiel 8:9

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) Ezekiel 8:9 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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He said to me, Go in, and see the wicked abominations that they do here.
World English Bible · Public Domain
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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
    He said to me, Go in, and see the wicked abominations that they do here.
  • King James Version Public Domain
    And he said unto me, Go in, and behold the wicked abominations that they do here.
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
    Then he said to me, “Go and see the wicked abominations that they are doing here.”

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
    He said to me, Go in, and see the wicked abominations that they do here.
  • Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
    Then He said to me, “Go in and see the wicked abominations they are committing here.”
  • Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
    Then He said to me, “Go in and see the wicked abominations they are committing here.”
  • King James Version Public Domain
    And he said unto me, Go in, and behold the wicked abominations that they do here.
  • American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
    And he said unto me, Go in, and see the wicked abominations that they do here.
  • Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
    And he said unto me, Go in, and see the wicked abominations that they do here.
  • Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
    And he said vnto mee, Go in, and beholde the wicked abominations that they doe here.
  • Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
    And he said to me: Go in, and see the wicked abominations which they commit here.
  • Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
    And He saith to me, `Go in, and see the evil abominations that they are doing here.'
  • Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
    And He says to me, “Go in, and see the evil abominations that they are doing here.”
  • Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
    Then he said to me, “Go and see the wicked abominations that they are doing here.”
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
    Then he said to me, “Go and see the wicked abominations that they are doing here.”
  • Darby Bible Public Domain
    And he said unto me, Go in, and behold the wicked abominations that they do here.
  • World Messianic Bible Public Domain
    He said to me, “Go in, and see the wicked abominations that they do here.”
  • Webster's Bible Public Domain
    And he said to me, Go in, and behold the wicked abominations that they do here.
  • Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
    He told me, “Go through the wall and see the evil and disgusting things they are doing in here.”
  • Bible in Basic English Public Domain
    And he said to me, Go in and see the evil and disgusting things which they are doing here.
  • JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
    And He said unto me: 'Go in, and see the wicked abominations that they do here.'

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11
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11
distinct lemmas
Prophets
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Grammatical profile

  • 4 verbs
  • 1 noun
  • 1 adjective
  • 1 pronoun
  • 1 preposition
  • 1 adverb
  • 2 particles

Verb forms

  • וַיֹּ֖אמֶר Qal · Sequential Imperfect
  • בֹּ֤א Qal · Imperative
  • וּרְאֵה֙ Qal · Imperative
  • עֹשִׂ֖ים Qal · Participle Active

Hebrew & Septuagint length

In English translation the verse runs 15 words from the Hebrew and 15 from the Septuagint (LXX English) — the same length.

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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 13 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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Cross-references

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Topical passages linked to Ezekiel 8:9 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.

  • Ezekiel 20:8 But they rebelled against me, and would not listen to me; they did not every man cast away the abominations of their eyes, neither did they forsake the idols of Egypt. Then I said I would pour out my wrath on them, to accomplish my anger against them in the midst of the land of Egypt.

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Hebrew and Greek witnesses Masoretic Hebrew ↔ Greek Septuagint

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Hebrew Ezekiel 8:9 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

וַיֹּ֖אמֶר אֵלָ֑י בֹּ֤א וּרְאֵה֙ אֶת הַתּוֹעֵב֣וֹת הָרָע֔וֹת אֲשֶׁ֛ר הֵ֥ם עֹשִׂ֖ים פֹּֽה

He said to me, Go in, and see the wicked abominations that they do here.

World English Bible · Public Domain

Greek LXX Ezekiel 8:9 Septuagint · lemma form

καί εἶπον πρός ἐγώ εἰςἔρχομαι καί ὁράω ὁ ἀνομία ὅς οὗτος ποιέω ὧδε

And he said to me, Go in, and behold the iniquities which they practise here.

LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) · Public Domain

On this verse, The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 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 →

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)
    וַאֲמַר לִי עוּל וַחֲזֵי יַת תּוֹעֲבָתָא בִישָׁתָא דְאִינוּן עָבְדִין בָּא:

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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 8:9 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 8:9 And he said unto me, Go in, and behold the wicked abominations that they do here.

Ver. 9. Go in, and behold the wicked abominations.] No words are bad enough for sin. Solomon calleth it "wickedness of folly, even foolishness of madness"; {Ecc 7:25} "mischievous madness"; {Eze 10:13} so Luk 16:11, "mammon of unrighteousness," and "abominable idolatries." {1Pe 4:3}

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

9. The word “wicked” is wanting in LXX.

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

And he said unto me, go in,.... Into the room or chamber the door opened into:

and behold the wicked abominations they do here; the idolatries there committed, wicked in themselves, and abominable to God.

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

Go in: this was to secure him; he need fear neither the violence which idolaters usually show against those that discover them, nor yet any legal impurity by coming so near these abominable things.

Behold; look diligently, that thou mayst particularly reprove these, and denounce my just judgments against them.

The wicked abominations; the most abominable wickednesses; these are loathsome in their nature, and multiplied in number before me.

Do here, Heb. are doing here: before the evil day appeared so near, they did, and under the approach of judgments they are still doing at this day, in this very place, under the walls of my temple.

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

John Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Are doing - Under the approach of judgments, in this very place, under the walls of my temple.

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

Lesson kit

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Ezekiel, in the Prophets, opens this verse with 11 words (11 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is pôh (“here”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

  1. How does “here” (pôh) shape what this verse is saying?
  2. Ezekiel 20:8 shares this passage’s theme. How do the two illuminate each other?
  3. The translations on this page render this verse differently — a whole-verse word diff, not a word-by-word alignment. What might account for the different wordings?
  4. The verb «וַיֹּ֖אמֶר» is Qal Sequential Imperfect. How does its form color the action?
  5. 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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