KING JAMES VERSION (KJV)
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To get what Ezekiel 5:5 means based on its source text, scroll down or follow these links for the original scriptural meaning , biblical context and relative popularity.
“Thus saith the Lord God; This is Jerusalem: I have set it in the midst of the nations and countries that are round about her.”
What does this verse really mean? Use this table to get a word-for-word translation of the original Hebrew Scripture. This shows the English words related to the source biblical texts along with brief definitions. Follow the buttons in the right-hand column for detailed definitions and verses that use the same root words. Use this reference information to gain deeper insight into the Bible and enrich your understanding. Information based on Strong's Exhaustive Concordance[1].
| KJV Verse | Original Hebrew | Meaning/ Definition This is a simplified translation of the original Hebrew word. Follow the buttons on the right to get more detail. | More Use the buttons below to get details on the Hebrew word and view related Bible verses that use the same root word. |
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| “Thus” | כֹּ֤ה | Properly, like this, i.e., by implication, (of manner) thus (or so); also (of place) here (or hither); or (of time) now | Thus |
| “saith” | אָמַר֙ | To say (used with great latitude) | saith |
| “the Lord” | אֲדֹנָ֣י | The Lord (used as a proper name of God only) | Lord |
| “God;” | יְהוִֹ֔ה | God | God |
| “This” | זֹ֚את | This (often used adverb) | This |
| “is” | (No Hebrew definition. English implied.) | ||
| “Jerusalem:” | יְר֣וּשָׁלִַ֔ם | Jerushalaim or Jerushalem, the capital city of Palestine | Jerusalem |
| “I have set” | שַׂמְתִּ֑יהָ | To put (used in a great variety of applications, literal, figurative, inferentially, and elliptically) | set |
| “it in the midst” | בְּת֥וֹךְ | A bisection, i.e., (by implication) the center | midst |
| “of the nations” | הַגּוֹיִ֖ם | A foreign nation; hence, a Gentile; also (figuratively) a troop of animals, or a flight of locusts | nations |
| “and countries” | אֲרָצֽוֹת׃ | The earth (at large, or partitively a land) | countries |
| “that are” | (No Hebrew definition. English implied.) | ||
| “round about” | וּסְבִיבוֹתֶ֖יהָ | (as noun) a circle, neighbour, or environs; but chiefly (as adverb, with or without preposition) around | round about |
| “her.” | וּסְבִיבוֹתֶ֖יהָ | (as noun) a circle, neighbour, or environs; but chiefly (as adverb, with or without preposition) around | her |
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3 Thou shalt also take thereof a few in number, and bind them in thy skirts.
4 Then take of them again, and cast them into the midst of the fire, and burn them in the fire; for thereof shall a fire come forth into all the house of Israel.
5 Thus saith the Lord God; This is Jerusalem: I have set it in the midst of the nations and countries that are round about her.
6 And she hath changed my judgments into wickedness more than the nations, and my statutes more than the countries that are round about her: for they have refused my judgments and my statutes, they have not walked in them.
7 Therefore thus saith the Lord God; Because ye multiplied more than the nations that are round about you, and have not walked in my statutes, neither have kept my judgments, neither have done according to the judgments of the nations that are round about you;
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