The Meaning of Ezekiel 20:29 Explained

Ezekiel 20:29

KJV: Then I said unto them, What is the high place whereunto ye go? And the name thereof is called Bamah unto this day.

YLT: And I say unto them: What is the high place whither ye are going in? And its name is called 'high place' to this day.

Darby: And I said unto them, What is the high place whither ye go? And the name thereof is called Bamah unto this day.

ASV: Then I said unto them, What meaneth the high place whereunto ye go? So the name thereof is called Bamah unto this day.

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CONTEXT: What is the Context of Ezekiel 20:29?

MEANING: What does Ezekiel 20:29 Mean?

WORDS: What do the individual words in Ezekiel 20:29 mean?

RELATIONS: What do the major concepts mean in Ezekiel 20:29?

What is the context of Ezekiel 20:29?

KJV Reverse Interlinear

Then I said unto them, What [is] the high place whereunto ye go? And the name thereof is called Bamah unto this day.

What does Ezekiel 20:29 Mean?

Verse Meaning

The Lord had confronted His people with their use of the high places on hilltops for idolatry. The name of the high places, Bamah, had a double significance. It meant "high place," but it also meant literally "go where" or "go what" (Heb. ba mah). Thus Bamah became a contemptuous pun. When the people went to the high places to worship idols, where were they going? They were going nowhere of any significance to do nothing of any importance since these idols were nonentities and could not help them. The name Bamah said more about these places than just identifying them as high places of worship, and the Lord had perpetuated the name Bamah for this reason.

"In the world of the Old Testament, everyone worshiped by using idols. It was unthinkable not to. Idols were thought to be absolutely necessary for proper worship in the same way that wings are thought necessary for an airplane today. The practice of idolatry was based on what is sometimes called "sympathetic magic," that Isaiah , the ability to influence reality by manipulating an image of that reality." ^[1]

Chapter Summary: Ezekiel 20

¹ God refuses to be consulted by the elders of Israel
⁴ He shows the story of their rebellions in Egypt
¹⁹ in the desert
²⁷ and in the land
³³ He promises to gather them by the Gospel
⁴⁵ Under the name of a forest he shows the destruction of Jerusalem

What do the individual words in Ezekiel 20:29 mean?

And I said to them what [is] this high place to which you go there so is called its name Bamah to day this

וָאֹמַ֣ר אֲלֵהֶ֔ם מָ֣ה הַבָּמָ֔ה אֲשֶׁר־ אַתֶּ֥ם ؟ הַבָּאִ֖ים שָׁ֑ם וַיִּקָּרֵ֤א שְׁמָהּ֙ בָּמָ֔ה עַ֖ד הַיּ֥וֹם הַזֶּֽה

וָאֹמַ֣ר	And I said
Parse: Conjunctive waw, Verb, Qal, Consecutive imperfect, first person common singular Root: אָמַר Sense: to say, speak, utter.
אֲלֵהֶ֔ם	to them
Parse: Preposition, third person masculine plural Root: אֶל Sense: to, toward, unto (of motion).
מָ֣ה	what [is]
Parse: Interrogative Root: לָמָּה Sense: what, how, of what kind.
הַבָּמָ֔ה	this high place
Parse: Article, Noun, feminine singular Root: בָּמָה Sense: high place, ridge, height, bamah (technical name for cultic platform).
אֲשֶׁר־	to which
Parse: Pronoun, relative Root: אֲשֶׁר Sense: (relative part.).
؟ הַבָּאִ֖ים	go
Parse: Article, Verb, Qal, Participle, masculine plural Root: בֹּוא Sense: to go in, enter, come, go, come in.
וַיִּקָּרֵ֤א	so is called
Parse: Conjunctive waw, Verb, Nifal, Consecutive imperfect, third person masculine singular Root: קָרָא Sense: to call, call out, recite, read, cry out, proclaim.
שְׁמָהּ֙	its name
Parse: Noun, masculine singular construct, third person feminine singular Root: שֵׁם Sense: name.
בָּמָ֔ה	Bamah
Parse: Noun, feminine singular Root: בָּמָה Sense: a place in Palestine (of places of idolatrous worship).
הַיּ֥וֹם	day
Parse: Article, Noun, masculine singular Root: יׄום Sense: day, time, year.
הַזֶּֽה	this
Parse: Article, Pronoun, masculine singular Root: זֶה Sense: this, this one, here, which, this … that, the one … the other, another, such.

What are the major concepts related to Ezekiel 20:29?

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