Ezekiel — Footnotes

🔗Chapter 3

3:16 — This may refer to the end of a seven day period. That is, on the seventh day.

🔗Chapter 5

5:11 — shave [you off], literally: 'cut [you] down'. In this phrase, there is a play on words involving verse 5:1 where Ezekiel was instructed to shave his head and beard. (See HOTTP/CTAT)

🔗Chapter 6

6:6 — made desolate, literally, 'will expiate'. The Hebrew word here is not the same as the word for desolate in verse 4. However, it sounds similar--it is a play on words.

🔗Chapter 16

16:7 — On the descriptive language in chapters 16 and 23, see Bibb, RevExp 111/4 (2014): 337–345; A Handbook on Ezekiel (UBS); Michaelis, Deutsche Uebersetzung des Alten Testaments, vol. 10 (1781), ad loc.

16:25 — spread your legs, literally 'opened your feet'.

16:26 — well-endowed: Hebrew gidlei basar, literally "great of flesh," a euphemism for large male genitals.

16:36 — juice: Hebrew neḥushtekh, an Akkadian loanword for female genital fluid. The image is eager physical readiness for illicit sex. See HALOT s.v. II נְחֹשֶׁת; Greenberg, AYB 22.

🔗Chapter 18

18:10 — this type of thing. Literally, 'from one of these'. Probably referring to the acts of violence and shedding blood that characterize this person. Also in verse 11.

18:17 — withdrawn his hand from iniquity: so LXX; MT reads "from the poor." See CTAT at Ezek 18:17 {B}; HALOT s.v. עָנִי; Van Rooy, OTE 22/1 (2013).

🔗Chapter 19

19:10 — in your blood: the MT reading; CTAT and the lexical tradition retain it. See Korpel, ZAW 121 (2009), 85.

🔗Chapter 23

23:20 — playthings: Hebrew pilegesh, normally "concubine" (female); the only OT occurrence applied to men.

🔗Chapter 24

24:17 — the bread of men, this refers to normal bread eaten by those who are not priests.

🔗Chapter 26

26:1 — The actual month is not directly specified. Compare to 32:1 and 32:17.

🔗Chapter 27

27:19 — See discussion on this verse in CTAT.

🔗Chapter 28

28:13 — quartz translates Hebrew יַהֲלֹם; precise identification uncertain. See also Exo 28:18, 39:11.

🔗Chapter 29

29:3 — crocodile here could be translated 'monster' or 'dragon'. See also 32:2.

🔗Chapter 32

32:2 — Crocodile, see footnote at 29:3.

32:17 — The actual month is not directly specified here, but a month was previously indicated at 32:1. See also 26:1 for a similar case.

32:22 — their and them refer to the company.

32:25 — them refers to the multitude.

32:26 — them refers to the multitude.

32:19 — put yourself to bed: the Hophal imperative is reflexive; see GKC §46a, n. 2.

🔗Chapter 34

34:3 — the milk - the expression refers to milk and the products of milk such as butter, cheese, cream, etc.

🔗Chapter 36

36:20 — the people. Literally, 'he' (see HOTTP/CTAT). Likely refers to the 'people of Yahweh' in this verse which is also masculine singular in form.

🔗Chapter 40

40:31 — its post: see CTAT at Ezek 40:37; see also vv. 34, 37.

40:34 — its post: see CTAT at Ezek 40:37; see also vv. 31, 37.

40:37 — its post: see CTAT at Ezek 40:37; see also vv. 31, 34.

🔗Chapter 44

44:7 — foreigners, literally 'sons of foreigners'.

🔗Chapter 47

47:9 — rivers, or 'two currents [of a river]'