King James Version:
(The Lord speaking is red text)
For thou [art] not sent to a people of a strange speech and of an hard language, [but] to the house of Israel;
Complete Jewish Bible:
For you are not being sent to a people with a difficult language and unintelligible speech, but to the house of Isra'el -
Berean Standard Bible:
For you are not being sent to a people of unfamiliar speech or difficult language, but to the house of Israel—
American Standard Version:
For thou art not sent to a people of a strange speech and of a hard language, but to the house of Israel;
KJV with Strong’s Numbers:
For thou art not sent{H7971} to a people{H5971} of a strange{H6012} speech{H8193} and of an hard{H3515} language{H3956}, but to the house{H1004} of Israel{H3478};
Cross-References (KJV):
Jonah 1:2
- Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and cry against it; for their wickedness is come up before me.
Isaiah 33:19
- Thou shalt not see a fierce people, a people of a deeper speech than thou canst perceive; of a stammering tongue, [that thou canst] not understand.
Isaiah 28:11
- For with stammering lips and another tongue will he speak to this people.
Psalms 81:5
- This he ordained in Joseph [for] a testimony, when he went out through the land of Egypt: [where] I heard a language [that] I understood not.
Jonah 3:2
- Arise, go unto Nineveh, that great city, and preach unto it the preaching that I bid thee.
Jonah 3:4
- And Jonah began to enter into the city a day's journey, and he cried, and said, Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown.
Acts 26:17
- Delivering thee from the people, and [from] the Gentiles, unto whom now I send thee,
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Commentary for Ezekiel 3:5
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Strong's Numbers and Definitions:
Note: H = Hebrew (OT), G = Greek (NT)
- Strong's Number: H7971
There are 790 instances of this translation in the Bible
Lemma: שָׁלַח
Transliteration: shâlach
Pronunciation: shaw-lakh'
Description: a primitive root; to send away, for, or out (in a great variety of applications); [idiom] any wise, appoint, bring (on the way), cast (away, out), conduct, [idiom] earnestly, forsake, give (up), grow long, lay, leave, let depart (down, go, loose), push away, put (away, forth, in, out), reach forth, send (away, forth, out), set, shoot (forth, out), sow, spread, stretch forth (out). - Strong's Number: H5971
There are 1654 instances of this translation in the Bible
Lemma: עַם
Transliteration: ʻam
Pronunciation: am
Description: from עָמַם; a people (as a congregated unit); specifically, a tribe (as those of Israel); hence (collectively) troops or attendants; figuratively, a flock; folk, men, nation, people. - Strong's Number: H6012
There are 4 instances of this translation in the Bible
Lemma: עָמֵק
Transliteration: ʻâmêq
Pronunciation: aw-make'
Description: from עָמַק; deep (literally or figuratively); deeper, depth, strange. - Strong's Number: H8193
There are 164 instances of this translation in the Bible
Lemma: שָׂפָה
Transliteration: sâphâh
Pronunciation: saw-faw'
Description: or (in dual and plural) שֶׂפֶת; probably from סָפָה or שָׁפָה through the idea of termination (compare סוֹף); the lip (as a natural boundary); by implication, language; by analogy, a margin (of a vessel, water, cloth, etc.); band, bank, binding, border, brim, brink, edge, language, lip, prating, (sea-)shore, side, speech, talk, (vain) words. - Strong's Number: H3515
There are 37 instances of this translation in the Bible
Lemma: כָּבֵד
Transliteration: kâbêd
Pronunciation: kaw-bade'
Description: from כָּבַד; heavy; figuratively in a good sense (numerous) or in a bad sense (severe, difficult, stupid); (so) great, grievous, hard(-ened), (too) heavy(-ier), laden, much, slow, sore, thick. - Strong's Number: H3956
There are 115 instances of this translation in the Bible
Lemma: לָשׁוֹן
Transliteration: lâshôwn
Pronunciation: law-shone'
Description: or לָשֹׁן; also (in plural) feminine לְשֹׁנָה; from לָשַׁן; the tongue (of man or animals), used literally (as the instrument of licking, eating, or speech), and figuratively (speech, an ingot, a fork of flame, a cove of water); [phrase] babbler, bay, [phrase] evil speaker, language, talker, tongue, wedge. - Strong's Number: H1004
There are 1718 instances of this translation in the Bible
Lemma: בַּיִת
Transliteration: bayith
Pronunciation: bah'-yith
Description: probably from בָּנָה abbreviated; a house (in the greatest variation of applications, especially family, etc.); court, daughter, door, [phrase] dungeon, family, [phrase] forth of, [idiom] great as would contain, hangings, home(born), (winter) house(-hold), inside(-ward), palace, place, [phrase] prison, [phrase] steward, [phrase] tablet, temple, web, [phrase] within(-out). - Strong's Number: H3478
There are 2229 instances of this translation in the Bible
Lemma: יִשְׂרָאֵל
Transliteration: Yisrâʼêl
Pronunciation: yis-raw-ale'
Description: from שָׂרָה and אֵל; he will rule as God; Jisrael, a symbolical name of Jacob; also (typically) of his posterity; Israel.