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# יְחֶזְקֵאל

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H3168

**Ezekiel** — used 3 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

Ezekiel [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3168/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

יְחֶזְקֵאל: n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3168/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. (God strengtheneth, cf. foreg.; v. LagBN 134)— the well-known priest and prophet, son of Buzi, 𝔊 Ιεζεκιηλ, Ez 1:3; 24:24. priest of 19th course (assigned to David’s time) 1 Ch 24:16, 𝔊 Εζεκηλ, 𝔊L (20th course, cf. A) Ιεζεκιηλ.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Ezekiel (2); Jehezkel (1).

## In the verses

[1 Chronicles 24:16](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.24.16/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.24.16/#tree)

לִֽפְתַחְיָה֙ תִּשְׁעָ֣ה עָשָׂ֔ר לִֽיחֶזְקֵ֖אל הָעֶשְׂרִֽים׃

*Word for word:* to Pethahiah nine- teen to Jehezkel the twenty

*JPS 1917:* the nineteenth to Pethahiah, the twentieth to Jehezkel;

[Ezekiel 24:24](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.24.24/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.24.24/#tree)

וְהָיָ֨ה יְחֶזְקֵ֤אל לָכֶם֙ לְמוֹפֵ֔ת כְּכֹ֥ל אֲשֶׁר־עָשָׂ֖ה תַּעֲשׂ֑וּ בְּבֹאָ֕הּ וִֽידַעְתֶּ֕ם כִּ֥י אֲנִ֖י אֲדֹנָ֥י יְהוִֽה׃ס

*Word for word:* and he.will.become Ezekiel for you (into).a sign according to.all that he.has.done you.will.do when comes it and you.will.know (dm).that I the\].Lord \[am Yahweh

*JPS 1917:* Thus shall Ezekiel be unto you a sign; according to all that he hath done shall ye do; when this cometh, then shall ye know that I am the Lord GOD.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/3168.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3168/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).