Passage Research
Ezekiel 4 — Sermon Preparation
God commands Ezekiel to perform a series of symbolic acts depicting the coming siege and famine of Jerusalem. Below is a research summary for Ezekiel 4, drawn from openly licensed scholarly databases — original-language morphology, classic sermons from the church fathers through the Puritans, and ancient geography data.
- 17
- verses
- 264 / 122
- Hebrew words / lemmas
- 12
- classic sermon excerpts
- 3
- preachers & commentators
Ezekiel 4 in the Hebrew
Distinctive vocabulary of this chapter, based on original-language morphology.
| Hebrew | Transliteration | Strong's | Count | Glosses |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| צַד | tsad | H6654 | 5 | side, adversary |
| נָתַן | nâthan | H5414 | 9 | give, put |
| עָוֺן | ʻâvôn | H5771 | 6 | perversity, evil |
| לֶחֶם | lechem | H3899 | 6 | food, bread |
| אָכַל | ʼâkal | H398 | 7 | eat |
| מָצוֹר | mâtsôwr | H4692 | 4 | hemming in, mound |
| שָׁכַב | shâkab | H7901 | 4 | lie down |
How preachers through history handled this text
12 public-domain excerpts on Ezekiel 4, from the church fathers to the Puritans.
“There is a difference in the number of days between the Hebrew text and that of the Septuagint. The latter assigns but 190 days to the kingdom of Israel, and yet agrees with the Hebrew in assigning forty days to the kingdom of Judea. Theodoret, in his comment on the passage, explains the Septuagint as follows. Although in the reign of Rehoboam the people were divided, yet they are considered as one nation, being separate, and yet conjoined. …”
— Calvin, Commentary on Ezekiel - Volume 2, on Ezekiel 4:5–30 (Public Domain)
Places in the text
Based on ancient-geography data
- Jerusalem— Ezek 4:1
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