What Does Ezekiel 5:7 Mean in the King James?
Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because ye multiplied more than the nations that are round about you, and have not walked in my statutes, neither have kept my judgments, neither have done according to the judgments of the nations that are round about you;
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 behind multiplied can carry the surge of a tumult, exposing increase without the way that should shape it.
THE MEANING
The verse lets you see a present possibility: your activity can swell beyond what surrounds you while your conduct refuses the pattern you have received. The dislocation reaches further than leaving that pattern; even the standards of those around you are not what you enact.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It undoes the belief that greater activity or distinctiveness from surrounding people automatically proves alignment; abundance alone does not show what path you walk.
THE ROOT
הֲמֹנְכֶם
hamonchem
GROWS FROM
המה
H-M-H
to roar, surge, or be tumultuous
The Hebrew behind multiplied is built around multitude and tumult, holding sheer mass together with a surge of commotion. Beside the failed walk and doing, it pictures more-than-the-neighbors energy without the order that should govern it.
ALSO GROWS
hamah: to roar, surge, or be agitated
הָמָה
This verbal branch lets the increase carry the feel of forceful motion, not just a larger count.
hamon: multitude, tumult, noise, or abundance
הָמוֹן
This noun branch holds abundance and commotion in one word-family, joining the verse’s scale to its disorder.
הֲלַכְתֶּם
halakhtem
GROWS FROM
הלך
H-L-K
to walk, go, or move along a way
“walked” in this verse is halakhtem. Walk names a continuing course, not a single step. The verse’s contrast is between abundant motion and a life that does not travel the way its instruction sets out.
ALSO GROWS
halakh: to walk or go
הָלַךְ
This verb is the seed of the verse’s image of conduct as a path taken over time.
holekh: one who walks or goes
הוֹלֵךְ
This participle names the walker, making the root speak about the person formed by a continuing way.
עֲשִׂיתֶם
asitem
GROWS FROM
עשה
ʿ-Ś-H
to do, make, or carry out
“kept” in this verse is asitem. The Hebrew verb carries judgments into doing and making. It repeats for both the LORD’s judgments and the nations’ judgments, so neither order is being enacted.
ALSO GROWS
asah: to do or make
עָשָׂה
The root keeps the verse’s concern grounded in what a life actually carries out.
ma'aseh: deed, work, or action
מַעֲשֶׂה
This noun branch makes the link between judgment and enacted action visible.
THE PATTERN
The scale of a life does not establish its alignment; alignment shows in the path it walks and the order it enacts.
After the doings of the land of Egypt, wherein ye dwelt, shall ye not do: and after the doings of the land of Canaan, whither I bring you, shall ye not do: neither shall ye walk in their ordinances.And it shall be our righteousness, if we observe to do all these commandments before the LORD our God, as he hath commanded us.And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.THE THREAD
Ye shall walk in all the ways which the LORD your God hath commanded you, that ye may live, and that it may be well with you, and that ye may prolong your days in the land which ye shall possess.Deuteronomy and Ezekiel share the Hebrew root הלך (halak, to walk or go), making conduct a path rather than a label. Deuteronomy connects that commanded walk with life and well-being; Ezekiel shows the fracture when the walk does not follow the given way.
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