What Does Ezekiel 13:11 Mean in the King James?
Say unto them which daub it with untempered morter, that it shall fall: there shall be an overflowing shower; and ye, O great hailstones, shall fall; and a stormy wind shall rend it.
The analysis reads the King James wording.
King James Version The King James Version, first published in 1611. Selah Verse shows the standard text.
THE KEY
The storm exposes what plaster can disguise but cannot make sound.
THE MEANING
A surface can conceal an unstable structure, but it cannot make that structure whole. The downpour, hail, and storm wind bring the wall down and split it open; the verse holds the violence of that exposure plainly.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The lie is that a convincing surface proves what lies beneath can bear weight. This verse undoes it: a coating cannot strengthen an unsound wall, and the storm still reaches it.
THE ROOT
תִּבָּקֵעַ
tibbaqe'a
GROWS FROM
בקע
b-q-ʿ
To split, cleave, or break open.
“rend” in this verse is tibbaqe'a. The storm does more than knock the wall down: the root says it is split open. The same root names a cleft or valley, an opening in the land where something solid has been divided.
ALSO GROWS
baqaʿ: To split or cleave.
בָּקַע
This verb names the opening force applied to the wall.
biqʿah: A valley or cleft.
בִּקְעָה
The noun carries the same image of an opening made by division.
שׁוֹטֵף
shotef
GROWS FROM
שטף
sh-t-p
To sweep over, surge, or overflow.
“overflowing” in this verse is shotef. The shower is described as a sweeping surge, not merely rain falling on the wall. The root shows the force moving across and carrying away what it meets.
ALSO GROWS
shataf: To sweep over, wash away, or overflow.
שָׁטַף
This verb makes the shower’s action active: it moves across the wall and overwhelms it.
shetef: A flood or surge.
שֶׁטֶף
The related noun names the force of water that sweeps over what cannot hold.
רוּחַ
ruach
GROWS FROM
רוח
r-w-ḥ
To blow or breathe; the noun names moving air as wind or breath.
One Hebrew word names both wind and breath, so the storm’s force belongs to the same word used for air moving through a body. Its consonant pattern also echoes רְוָחָה (revachah), meaning relief or respite, opening a sound-link to release and room.
ALSO GROWS
ruach: Wind or breath.
רוּחַ
This is the word for the storm’s wind and also the word for breath.
revachah: Relief or respite.
רְוָחָה
Its shared consonant pattern echoes the movement from constriction toward room and relief.
THE PATTERN
What only appears strong gives way when its foundation is tested.
A Song of degrees for Solomon. Except the LORD build the house, they labour in vain that build it: except the LORD keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain.And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell: and great was the fall of it.Every man’s work shall be made manifest: for the day shall declare it, because it shall be revealed by fire; and the fire shall try every man’s work of what sort it is.THE THREAD
Judgment also will I lay to the line, and righteousness to the plummet: and the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters shall overflow the hiding place.Ezekiel’s שׁוֹטֵף (shotef), meaning “overflowing” or “sweeping,” comes from the same root as Isaiah’s waters that “shall overflow the hiding place.” Isaiah makes the storm’s work plain: it sweeps away a refuge built on lies, just as Ezekiel’s wind splits open the coated wall.
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