Ezekiel 6:4
"And your altars shall be desolate, and your images shall be broken: and I will cast down your slain men before your idols."

Commentary

Gill's Exposition

And your altars shall be desolate,.... Being pulled down; or because the priests and worshippers would now be slain, and there would be none to attend them: and your images shall be

broken; the "images of the sun" (b). The word for images has its derivation from heat; and were so called, either from the heat of the sun, to whose worship they were devoted, or from the heat of the love and affections of their worshippers: and I will cast down your slain men before your idols; before your dung, or your "dunghill gods" (c); for the word used has the signification of dung, Eze 4:12 . The Targum renders it, "before the carcass of your idols;'' where they committed idolatry, there they should be slain; which points at the cause of their punishment. (b) "simulacra vestra solis", Pagninus; "solaria vestra", Vatablus; "subdiales statuae vestrae", Junius & Tremellius, Piscator, Polanus. (c) "coram stercoreis diis vestris", Junius & Tremellius, Piscator, Polanus; "coram stercoribus vestris", Cocceius.

Source: Gill's Exposition (Public Domain)

Hebrew Word Studies (8 words)

H8074 שָׁמֵם
Definition:

15, etc.;Imperfect3masculine singularיִשֹּׁם;1 Kings 9:8+, 3 masculine pluralיָשֹּׁ֫מּוּJob 17:8;Psalm 40:16, etc.;Imperativemasculine pluralשֹׁ֫מוּJeremiah 2:19;Infinitive construct(?) metaplasticשַׁ 15, etc.;Imperfect3masculine singularיִשֹּׁם;1 Kings 9:8+, 3 masculine pluralיָשֹּׁ֫מּוּJob 17:8;Psalm 40:16, etc.;Imperativemasculine pluralשֹׁ֫מוּJeremiah 2:19;Infinitive construct(?) metaplasticשַׁ

Possible Meanings:
  • be appalled (semantic_range)
H4196 מִזְבֵּחַ
Definition:

10altar(Arabic,place of slaughter, trench made by torrent, SabeanמדֿבחDHMEpigr. Denkm. 24);׳מabsolute2 Kings 18:22223t.,הַמִּזְבֵּ֑חָהExodus 29:1331t.; constructמִזְבַּחExodus 20:2476t., suffixמִזְבְּ 10altar(Arabic,place of slaughter, trench made by torrent, SabeanמדֿבחDHMEpigr. Denkm. 24);׳מabsolute2 Kings 18:22223t.,הַמִּזְבֵּ֑חָהExodus 29:1331t.; constructמִזְבַּחExodus 20:2476t., suffixמִזְבְּ

H7665 שָׁבַר
Definition:

28;Isaiah 14:5, etc.;Imperfect3masculine singularיִשְׁבֹּרJeremiah 19:11,בּוֺר-Isaiah 42:3; 3feminine singularתִּשְׁבָּרֿProverbs 25:15, etc.;Imperativemasculine singularשְׁבֹרPsalm 10:15, suffixשָׁבְ 28;Isaiah 14:5, etc.;Imperfect3masculine singularיִשְׁבֹּרJeremiah 19:11,בּוֺר-Isaiah 42:3; 3feminine singularתִּשְׁבָּרֿProverbs 25:15, etc.;Imperativemasculine singularשְׁבֹרPsalm 10:15, suffixשָׁבְ

Possible Meanings:
  • buy grain (semantic_range)
  • buy grain (semantic_range)
  • sell grain (semantic_range)
H2553 חַמָּן
Definition:

94t.; suffixחַמָּנֵיכֶםLeviticus 26:302t.; ""בָּמוֺתLeviticus 26:30(H), 2 Chron 14:4, compareEzekiel 6:4,6; ""מזבחותהבעלים2Chronicles 34:4; ""אשׁריםIsaiah 17:8;Isaiah 27:9; ""אשׁריםandמְּסִלִים2Chroni 94t.; suffixחַמָּנֵיכֶםLeviticus 26:302t.; ""בָּמוֺתLeviticus 26:30(H), 2 Chron 14:4, compareEzekiel 6:4,6; ""מזבחותהבעלים2Chronicles 34:4; ""אשׁריםIsaiah 17:8;Isaiah 27:9; ""אשׁריםandמְּסִלִים2Chroni

Possible Meanings:
  • sun-pillar (semantic_range)
H5307 נָפַל
Definition:

27+, 3 feminine singularנָָֽפְלָהGenesis 15:12+, etc.;Imperfectיִמֹּל1 Samuel 14:45+,וַיִּמֹּלJudges 4:16+; 1 singularאֶמֹּל1 Chronicles 21:13(needless change from 1 pluralנִמְּלָה""2 Samuel 24:14We D 27+, 3 feminine singularנָָֽפְלָהGenesis 15:12+, etc.;Imperfectיִמֹּל1 Samuel 14:45+,וַיִּמֹּלJudges 4:16+; 1 singularאֶמֹּל1 Chronicles 21:13(needless change from 1 pluralנִמְּלָה""2 Samuel 24:14We D

Possible Meanings:
  • fall (semantic_range)
H2491 חָלָל
Definition:

Fromchalal; pierced (especially to death); figuratively, polluted -- kill, profane, slain (man), X slew, (deadly) wounded.see HEBREWchalalBrown-Driver-BriggsI.חָלָל90noun masculinepierced,׳חabsoluteDe Fromchalal; pierced (especially to death); figuratively, polluted -- kill, profane, slain (man), X slew, (deadly) wounded.see HEBREWchalalBrown-Driver-BriggsI.חָלָל90noun masculinepierced,׳חabsoluteDe

Possible Meanings:
  • profaned (semantic_range)
H6440 פָנִים
Definition:

23and (Ezekiel =Proverbs 21:21=edge; on2 Samuel 10:9see below)feminineface, alsofaces(asturnedtoward one); — plural absoluteמָּנִיםGenesis 32:31+; constructמְּנֵי2 Samuel 14:32+; suffix 1 singularמָּנ 23and (Ezekiel =Proverbs 21:21=edge; on2 Samuel 10:9see below)feminineface, alsofaces(asturnedtoward one); — plural absoluteמָּנִיםGenesis 32:31+; constructמְּנֵי2 Samuel 14:32+; suffix 1 singularמָּנ

H1544 גִּלּוּל
Definition:

27only pluralidols(=logs, blocks, shapeless things Ges BaudRel i. 95; Ewdoll-images > dungy thingsSmEzekiel 6:4SS after Rabb)**See BaudZMG, 1904, 395 ff.(compares Biblical Aramaicגְּלָל(אֶבֶן), Palmyr 27only pluralidols(=logs, blocks, shapeless things Ges BaudRel i. 95; Ewdoll-images > dungy thingsSmEzekiel 6:4SS after Rabb)**See BaudZMG, 1904, 395 ff.(compares Biblical Aramaicגְּלָל(אֶבֶן), Palmyr

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