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title: יְחֶזְקֵאל — Ezekiel · The Tanakh dictionary
description: יְחֶזְקֵאל (3168), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 3 times: Ezekiel. BDB 1906: n.pr.m. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# יְחֶזְקֵאל

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«יְחֶזְקֵאל» in the Tanakh dictionary: **Ezekiel** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 3 times · **Key:** 3168 · **BDB:** יְחֶזְקֵאל

### Glosses

Ezekiel (2); Jehezkel (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

Ezekiel [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3168/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.pr.m. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3168/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. (God strengtheneth, cf. foreg.; v. LagBN 134)— the well-known priest and prophet, son of Buzi, 𝔊 Ιεζεκιηλ, Ez 1:3; 24:24. priest of 19th course (assigned to David’s time) 1 Ch 24:16, 𝔊 Εζεκηλ, 𝔊L (20th course, cf. A) Ιεζεκιηλ.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «יְחֶזְקֵאל» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3168/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[1 Chronicles 24:16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.24.16/)

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לִֽפְתַחְיָה֙ תִּשְׁעָ֣ה עָשָׂ֔ר לִֽיחֶזְקֵ֖אל הָעֶשְׂרִֽים׃

*Word for word:* to Pethahiah nine- teen to Jehezkel the twenty

*JPS 1917:* the nineteenth to Pethahiah, the twentieth to Jehezkel;

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[Ezekiel 24:24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.24.24/)

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וְהָיָ֨ה יְחֶזְקֵ֤אל לָכֶם֙ לְמוֹפֵ֔ת כְּכֹ֥ל אֲשֶׁר־עָשָׂ֖ה תַּעֲשׂ֑וּ בְּבֹאָ֕הּ וִֽידַעְתֶּ֕ם כִּ֥י אֲנִ֖י אֲדֹנָ֥י יְהוִֽה׃ס

*Word for word:* and he.will.become Ezekiel for you (into).a sign according to.all that he.has.done you.will.do when comes it and you.will.know (dm).that I the\].Lord \[am Yahweh

*JPS 1917:* Thus shall Ezekiel be unto you a sign; according to all that he hath done shall ye do; when this cometh, then shall ye know that I am the Lord GOD.

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