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Ezekiel 4

Ezek. 4:14 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'
! behold, my soul
nephesh (Hebrew #5315)
properly, a breathing creature, i.e. animal of (abstractly) vitality; used very widely in a literal, accommodated or figurative sense (bodily or mental)
KJV usage: any, appetite, beast, body, breath, creature, X dead(-ly), desire, X (dis-)contented, X fish, ghost, + greedy, he, heart(-y), (hath, X jeopardy of) life (X in jeopardy), lust, man, me, mind, mortally, one, own, person, pleasure, (her-, him-, my-, thy-)self, them (your)-selves, + slay, soul, + tablet, they, thing, (X she) will, X would have it.
Pronounce: neh'-fesh
Origin: from 5314
hath not been polluted
tame' (Hebrew #2930)
to be foul, especially in a ceremial or moral sense (contaminated)
KJV usage: defile (self), pollute (self), be (make, make self, pronounce) unclean, X utterly.
Pronounce: taw-may'
Origin: a primitive root
u: for from my youth
na`uwr (Hebrew #5271)
and (feminine) nturah {neh- oo-raw'}; properly, passive participle from 5288 as denominative; (only in plural collectively or emphatic form) youth, the state (juvenility) or the persons (young people)
KJV usage: childhood, youth.
Pronounce: naw-oor'
Origin: or naur {naw-oor'}
up even till now have I not eaten
'akal (Hebrew #398)
to eat (literally or figuratively)
KJV usage: X at all, burn up, consume, devour(-er, up), dine, eat(-er, up), feed (with), food, X freely, X in...wise(-deed, plenty), (lay) meat, X quite.
Pronounce: aw-kal'
Origin: a primitive root
of thatv which dieth of itself
nbelah (Hebrew #5038)
a flabby thing, i.e. a carcase or carrion (human or bestial, often collectively); figuratively, an idol
KJV usage: (dead) body, (dead) carcase, dead of itself, which died, (beast) that (which) dieth of itself.
Pronounce: neb-ay-law'
Origin: from 5034
, or is torn in pieces
trephah (Hebrew #2966)
prey, i.e. flocks devoured by animals
KJV usage: ravin, (that which was) torn (of beasts, in pieces).
Pronounce: ter-ay-faw'
Origin: feminine (collectively) of 2964
; neither came
bow' (Hebrew #935)
to go or come (in a wide variety of applications)
KJV usage: abide, apply, attain, X be, befall, + besiege, bring (forth, in, into, to pass), call, carry, X certainly, (cause, let, thing for) to come (against, in, out, upon, to pass), depart, X doubtless again, + eat, + employ, (cause to) enter (in, into, -tering, -trance, -try), be fallen, fetch, + follow, get, give, go (down, in, to war), grant, + have, X indeed, (in-)vade, lead, lift (up), mention, pull in, put, resort, run (down), send, set, X (well) stricken (in age), X surely, take (in), way.
Pronounce: bo
Origin: a primitive root
there abominable
pigguwl (Hebrew #6292)
from an unused root meaning to stink; properly, fetid, i.e. (figuratively) unclean (ceremonially)
KJV usage: abominable (-tion, thing).
Pronounce: pig-gool'
Origin: or piggul {pig-gool'}
x flesh
basar (Hebrew #1320)
flesh (from its freshness); by extension, body, person; also (by euphem.) the pudenda of a man
KJV usage: body, (fat, lean) flesh(-ed), kin, (man-)kind, + nakedness, self, skin.
Pronounce: baw-sawr'
Origin: from 1319
into my mouth
peh (Hebrew #6310)
the mouth (as the means of blowing), whether literal or figurative (particularly speech); specifically edge, portion or side; adverbially (with preposition) according to
KJV usage: accord(-ing as, -ing to), after, appointment, assent, collar, command(-ment), X eat, edge, end, entry, + file, hole, X in, mind, mouth, part, portion, X (should) say(-ing), sentence, skirt, sound, speech, X spoken, talk, tenor, X to, + two-edged, wish, word.
Pronounce: peh
Origin: from 6284
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Acts 10:14• 14And Peter said, In no wise, Lord; for I have never eaten anything common or unclean. (Acts 10:14)
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Ex. 22:31• 31--And ye shall be holy men unto me; and ye shall not eat flesh torn in the field: ye shall cast it to the dog. (Ex. 22:31)
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Lev. 17:15• 15And every soul that eateth of a dead carcase, or of that which was torn, be it one home-born, or a stranger, he shall wash his clothes, and bathe in water, and be unclean until the even: then he shall be clean. (Lev. 17:15)
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Deut. 14:3• 3Thou shalt not eat any abominable thing. (Deut. 14:3)
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Isa. 65:4• 4who sit down among the graves, and lodge in the secret places; who eat swine's flesh, and broth of abominable things is in their vessels; (Isa. 65:4)

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Ah; Aha,
Flesh,
Soul; Spirit

Cross References

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Ministry on This Verse

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Ah.
Ezek. 9:8• 8And it came to pass, while they were smiting, and I was left, that I fell upon my face, and cried, and said, Ah, Lord Jehovah! wilt thou destroy all the remnant of Israel in thy pouring out of thy fury upon Jerusalem? (Ezek. 9:8)
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Ezek. 20:49• 49And I said, Ah, Lord Jehovah! they say of me, Doth he not speak parables? (Ezek. 20:49)
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Jer. 1:6• 6And I said, Alas, Lord Jehovah! behold, I cannot speak; for I am a child. (Jer. 1:6)
my soul.
Acts 10:14• 14And Peter said, In no wise, Lord; for I have never eaten anything common or unclean. (Acts 10:14)
have I.
Ex. 22:31• 31--And ye shall be holy men unto me; and ye shall not eat flesh torn in the field: ye shall cast it to the dog. (Ex. 22:31)
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Lev. 11:39‑40• 39And if any beast which is to you for food die, he that toucheth the carcase thereof shall be unclean until the even.
 40And he that eateth of its carcase shall wash his garments, and be unclean until the even: he also that carrieth its carcase shall wash his garments, and be unclean until the even. (Lev. 11:39‑40)
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Lev. 17:15• 15And every soul that eateth of a dead carcase, or of that which was torn, be it one home-born, or a stranger, he shall wash his clothes, and bathe in water, and be unclean until the even: then he shall be clean. (Lev. 17:15)
abominable.
Lev. 19:7• 7And if it be eaten at all on the third day, it is an unclean thing: it shall not be accepted. (Lev. 19:7)
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Deut. 14:3• 3Thou shalt not eat any abominable thing. (Deut. 14:3)
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Isa. 65:4• 4who sit down among the graves, and lodge in the secret places; who eat swine's flesh, and broth of abominable things is in their vessels; (Isa. 65:4)
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Isa. 66:17• 17They that sanctify themselves, and purify themselves in the gardens behind one in the midst; that eat swine's flesh, and the abomination, and the mouse, shall perish together, saith Jehovah. (Isa. 66:17)
• Never did He {the Lord Jesus} shield Himself, as Ezekiel does here, from an adequate taste of the ruin-state of Israel. (“Notes on Ezekiel 4-7” by W. Kelly)

J. N. Darby Translation

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Then said I, Ah, Lord Jehovah! behold, my soulc hath not been defiled, and from my youth up even until now have I not eaten of that which dieth of itself, or of that which is torn; neither came there abominabled flesh into my mouth.

JND Translation Notes

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c
Or "my person."
d
Or "unclean," as Lev. 7.18; 19.7; Isa. 65.4.