The Meaning of Ezekiel 4:12 Explained

Ezekiel 4:12

KJV: And thou shalt eat it as barley cakes, and thou shalt bake it with dung that cometh out of man, in their sight.

YLT: A barley-cake thou dost eat it, and it with dung -- the filth of man -- thou dost bake before their eyes.

Darby: And thou shalt eat it as barley-cake, and thou shalt bake it in their sight with dung that cometh out of man.

ASV: And thou shalt eat it as barley cakes, and thou shalt bake it in their sight with dung that cometh out of man.

KJV Reverse Interlinear

And thou shalt eat  it [as] barley  cakes,  and thou shalt bake  it with dung  that cometh out  of man,  in their sight. 

What does Ezekiel 4:12 Mean?

Chapter Summary: Ezekiel 4

1  Under type of a siege is shown the time from the defection of Jeroboam to captivity
9  By the provision of the siege, is shown the hardness of the famine

What do the individual words in Ezekiel 4:12 mean?

And [as] cakes barley you shall eat it and it using fuel waste of human bake in their sight -
וְעֻגַ֥ת שְׂעֹרִ֖ים תֹּֽאכֲלֶ֑נָּה וְהִ֗יא בְּגֶֽלְלֵי֙ צֵאַ֣ת הָֽאָדָ֔ם תְּעֻגֶ֖נָה לְעֵינֵיהֶֽם ס

וְעֻגַ֥ת  And  [as]  cakes 
Parse: Conjunctive waw, Noun, feminine singular construct
Root: עֻגָה  
Sense: disc or cake (of bread).
שְׂעֹרִ֖ים  barley 
Parse: Noun, feminine plural
Root: שְׂעֹרָה  
Sense: barley.
תֹּֽאכֲלֶ֑נָּה  you  shall  eat  it 
Parse: Verb, Qal, Imperfect, second person masculine singular, third person feminine singular
Root: אָכַל  
Sense: to eat, devour, burn up, feed.
וְהִ֗יא  and  it 
Parse: Conjunctive waw, Pronoun, third person feminine singular
Root: הוּא 
Sense: he, she, it.
בְּגֶֽלְלֵי֙  using  fuel 
Parse: Preposition-b, Noun, masculine plural construct
Root: גֵּל  
Sense: dung, ball of dung.
צֵאַ֣ת  waste 
Parse: Noun, feminine singular construct
Root: צֵאָה  
Sense: filth, human excrement, excrement, faeces.
הָֽאָדָ֔ם  of  human 
Parse: Article, Noun, masculine singular
Root: אָדָם 
Sense: man, mankind.
תְּעֻגֶ֖נָה  bake 
Parse: Verb, Qal, Imperfect, second person masculine singular, third person feminine singular
Root: עוּג  
Sense: (Qal) to bake, bake a cake.
לְעֵינֵיהֶֽם  in  their  sight 
Parse: Preposition-l, Noun, cdc, third person masculine plural
Root: עֹונָה 
Sense: eye.
ס  - 
Parse: Punctuation

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