What Does Ezekiel 13:15 Mean in the King James?
Thus will I accomplish my wrath upon the wall, and upon them that have daubed it with untempered morter, and will say unto you, The wall is no more, neither they that daubed 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 Hebrew טָפֵל (ṭāp̄ēl, “untempered mortar”) shares its root with words for forging a lie, making the wall’s coating a falsehood laid over stone.
THE MEANING
The verse gives a total verdict on a shelter coated with what cannot hold: the wall is gone, and the ones who coated it are gone. The anger reaches beyond the surface to the structure and its makers.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
A shelter becomes secure when its surface looks sound, even if what binds it cannot hold.
THE ROOT
טָפֵל
ṭāp̄ēl
GROWS FROM
טפל
ṭ-p-l
To smear or attach; in some forms, to forge or cobble together a lie.
Here טָפֵל (ṭāp̄ēl, “untempered mortar”) names the wall’s coating. In Psalm 119:69 and Job 13:4, the same root describes forging lies, so this coating carries the image of falsehood smeared into the shape of shelter.
ALSO GROWS
ṭāp̄əlû: “They have forged a lie against me” (Psalm 119:69).
טָפְלוּ
The verb portrays falsehood as something attached over its target, linking a lie laid on a person with a coating laid on a wall.
ṭōp̄əlê: “Forgers of lies” (Job 13:4).
טֹפְלֵי
The root can name the makers of falsehood, revealing how a convincing cover is constructed by those who apply it.
THE PATTERN
A covering or construction meant to hide what is unsound cannot survive what exposes it.
The proud have forged a lie against me: but I will keep thy precepts with my whole heart.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.And every one that heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them not, shall be likened unto a foolish man, which built his house upon the sand: 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
The proud have forged a lie against me: but I will keep thy precepts with my whole heart.Psalm uses טָפְלוּ (ṭāp̄əlû, “they forged or smeared”) for a lie attached to a person; Ezekiel uses טָפֵל (ṭāp̄ēl, “untempered mortar”) for the wall’s coating. Their shared root טפל (ṭ-p-l, “smear or attach”) makes the connection tangible: a lie can be plastered on until it resembles protection.
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