What Does Ezekiel 13:13 Mean in the King James?
Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; I will even rend it with a stormy wind in my fury; and there shall be an overflowing shower in mine anger, and great hailstones in my fury to consume 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 is the instrument of exposure: it rends the whitewashed wall and consumes the false covering.
THE MEANING
The wall’s whitewash cannot keep its fractures hidden when the storm arrives: it is split open, swept by a flooding shower, and consumed by hail. The verse speaks now of exposure that reaches through the appearance to the structure itself.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It undoes the belief that a polished covering can make a false structure secure.
THE ROOT
וּבָקַעְתִּיהָ
u-vaqa'tiha
GROWS FROM
בקע
b-q-ʿ
To split open or cleave; the verse’s form means “I will split it open.”
English “rend” can sound like damage, but בָּקַע (baqa), meaning to split open, describes a boundary being breached. The same root opens the deep’s fountains and splits a mountain, so the wall’s failure is an opening, not a surface scratch.
ALSO GROWS
nibqe'u: Were broken open
נִבְקְעוּ
Genesis 7:11 uses this form for the fountains of the great deep breaking open, joining the wall’s breach to a force released from beneath a boundary.
wenivqa: And it shall split open
וְנִבְקַע
Zechariah 14:4 uses this form for the Mount of Olives splitting, showing the same root opening what seems solid.
רוּחַ
ruach
GROWS FROM
רוח
r-w-ḥ
Breath in motion, experienced as wind or breath.
English separates wind from breath, while רוּחַ (ruach), meaning wind or breath, carries both. The word naming this storm is also Ezekiel’s word for the breath summoned into the dry bones.
ALSO GROWS
ruach: Wind
רוּחַ
Genesis 8:1 uses this same word for the wind that passes over the earth as the floodwaters recede.
ruach: Breath
רוּחַ
Ezekiel 37:9 uses this same word for the breath called into the dry bones, showing that wind and life-giving breath share one Hebrew word.
שׁוֹטֵף
shoteph
GROWS FROM
שטף
sh-ṭ-p
To sweep over, rush across, or flood.
“overflowing” in this verse is shoteph. The shower is described with a verb of sweeping or flooding over, giving the rain motion as well as force. Isaiah uses the same root for waters sweeping away a hiding place, so the image carries exposure through removal.
ALSO GROWS
yishtofu: Shall overflow or sweep away
יִשְׁטֹפוּ
Isaiah 28:17 uses this form for waters that overflow the hiding place, alongside hail sweeping away the refuge of lies.
sheṭafatni: Has swept over me
שְׁטָפָתְנִי
Psalm 69:2 uses this form for a torrent sweeping over the speaker, showing the root’s force as something that overwhelms what it reaches.
THE PATTERN
A structure’s real integrity is exposed when storm and flood reach it.
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.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.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.The Hebrew root שטף (sh-ṭ-p), meaning to sweep or flood, describes the overflowing shower here and the waters that overflow the hiding place in Isaiah. In both verses, the flood carries away a structure of concealment, while hail completes the exposure.
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