What Does Ezekiel 44:6 Mean in the King James?

And thou shalt say to the rebellious, even to the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord GOD; O ye house of Israel, let it suffice you of all your abominations,

Ezekiel 44:6 · KJV

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King James Version The King James Version, first published in 1611. Selah Verse shows the standard text.

This verse in the Selah Decoded Version

THE KEY

Hebrew addresses rebellion itself and then identifies it with the house, exposing a condition that has become a collective identity.

THE MEANING

The verse speaks now where refusal has hardened into an identity: it names the condition as rebellion itself. Its “enough” calls the accumulated abominations excess that repetition cannot make ordinary. The charge remains severe; the line does not soften what it names.

WHAT THIS UNDOES

It undoes the belief that repeated or collective wrongdoing becomes acceptable simply because it has become familiar.

THE ROOT

מֶרִי

mərî

GROWS FROM

מרה

To rebel, resist, or be contentious.

“rebellious” in this verse is mərî. The Hebrew places rebellion itself as the object of the address, rather than merely using an adjective for a few people. ⁨מְרִי⁩ (mərî, rebellion) is the noun in the verse, from ⁨מָרָה⁩ (mārâ, to rebel): the condition is named as what the house has become.

ALSO GROWS

mārâ: To rebel or resist.

מָרָה

The verb names the act that becomes the settled condition named by the noun in this verse.

mərî: Rebellion.

מְרִי

This is the noun used in the Hebrew address; its final yod is the nominal form in the same weak-root family as ⁨מרה⁩.

תּוֹעֲבוֹתֵיכֶם

toʿavoteikhem

GROWS FROM

תעב

To abhor or regard as loathsome.

“abominations” in this verse is toʿavoteikhem. The plural grows from a verb of detesting: these are not only a list of prohibited acts but things regarded as loathsome. The verse presents their accumulation as already enough.

ALSO GROWS

toʿēvāh: Abomination; something detested.

תּוֹעֵבָה

This singular noun is the form from which the verse’s plural “abominations” is built.

toʿēv: Abhorrent or detestable.

תּוֹעֵב

This form carries the root’s sense of what is abhorred into the verse’s description of the accumulated acts.

THE PATTERN

When rebellion becomes a settled condition, its accumulated practices are named plainly rather than normalized.

Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, children that are corrupters: they have forsaken the LORD, they have provoked the Holy One of Israel unto anger, they are gone away backward.

Isaiah 1:4 · KJVThe verse describes wrongdoing as an accumulated condition that has shaped a people’s direction.

Howbeit I sent unto you all my servants the prophets, rising early and sending them, saying, Oh, do not this abominable thing that I hate.

Jeremiah 44:4 · KJVThe abominable act is named without euphemism, just as Ezekiel names the house’s abominations.

For the time past of our life may suffice us to have wrought the will of the Gentiles, when we walked in lasciviousness, lusts, excess of wine, revellings, banquetings, and abominable idolatries:

1 Peter 4:3 · KJVThe verse treats a history of destructive excess as sufficient already, echoing Ezekiel’s declaration that there has been enough.

THE THREAD

And they, whether they will hear, or whether they will forbear, (for they are a rebellious house,) yet shall know that there hath been a prophet among them.

Ezekiel 2:5 · KJV

“Rebellious house” uses the same Hebrew noun family as Ezekiel 44:6, making rebellion a recurring name for the condition. In 44:6, that naming reaches its limit in the declaration that the house has had enough of its abominations.

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