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Ezekiel 20

Ezek. 20:49 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Then said
'amar (Hebrew #559)
to say (used with great latitude)
KJV usage: answer, appoint, avouch, bid, boast self, call, certify, challenge, charge, + (at the, give) command(-ment), commune, consider, declare, demand, X desire, determine, X expressly, X indeed, X intend, name, X plainly, promise, publish, report, require, say, speak (against, of), X still, X suppose, talk, tell, term, X that is, X think, use (speech), utter, X verily, X yet.
Pronounce: aw-mar'
Origin: a primitive root
I, Ah
'ahahh (Hebrew #162)
Oh!
KJV usage: ah, alas.
Pronounce: a-haw'
Origin: apparently a primitive word expressing pain exclamatorily
Lord
'Adonay (Hebrew #136)
the Lord (used as a proper name of God only)
KJV usage: (my) Lord.
Pronounce: ad-o-noy'
Origin: am emphatic form of 113
God
Yhovih (Hebrew #3069)
a variation of 3068 (used after 136, and pronounced by Jews as 430, in order to prevent the repetition of the same sound, since they elsewhere pronounce 3068 as 136)
KJV usage: God.
Pronounce: yeh-ho-vee'
! they say
'amar (Hebrew #559)
to say (used with great latitude)
KJV usage: answer, appoint, avouch, bid, boast self, call, certify, challenge, charge, + (at the, give) command(-ment), commune, consider, declare, demand, X desire, determine, X expressly, X indeed, X intend, name, X plainly, promise, publish, report, require, say, speak (against, of), X still, X suppose, talk, tell, term, X that is, X think, use (speech), utter, X verily, X yet.
Pronounce: aw-mar'
Origin: a primitive root
of me, Doth he not speak
mashal (Hebrew #4911)
to liken, i.e. (transitively) to use figurative language (an allegory, adage, song or the like); intransitively, to resemble
KJV usage: be(-come) like, compare, use (as a) proverb, speak (in proverbs), utter.
Pronounce: maw-shal'
Origin: denominative from 4912
parables
mashal (Hebrew #4912)
properly, a pithy maxim, usually of metaphorical nature; hence, a simile (as an adage, poem, discourse)
KJV usage: byword, like, parable, proverb.
Pronounce: maw-shawl'
Origin: apparently from 4910 in some original sense of superiority in mental action
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Ministry on This Verse

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Doth.Is it not his usual custom to deal in enigmas?
His figures are not to be understood; we should not trouble ourselves with them.
God therefore commands the prophet to declare, in the next chapter, the same things in the plainest terms, so that they should not complain of his parables.
Matt. 13:13‑14• 13Therefore speak I to them in parables: because they seeing see not; and hearing they hear not, neither do they understand.
 14And in them is fulfilled the prophecy of Esaias, which saith, By hearing ye shall hear, and shall not understand; and seeing ye shall see, and shall not perceive: (Matt. 13:13‑14)
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John 16:25• 25These things have I spoken unto you in proverbs: but the time cometh, when I shall no more speak unto you in proverbs, but I shall show you plainly of the Father. (John 16:25)
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Acts 17:18• 18Then certain philosophers of the Epicureans, and of the Stoicks, encountered him. And some said, What will this babbler say? other some, He seemeth to be a setter forth of strange gods: because he preached unto them Jesus, and the resurrection. (Acts 17:18)
• The word was plain enough; but man finds difficulties in understanding what he does not like. (“Notes on Ezekiel 20:45 and Ezekiel 21” by W. Kelly)

J. N. Darby Translation

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And I said, Ah, Lord Jehovah! they say of me, Doth he not speak parables?