Ezekiel 4:11

Ezekiel 4:11 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)Thou shalt drink also water by measure, the sixth part of an hin: from time to time shalt thou drink.
• New International Version (NIV)Also measure out a sixth of a hin of water and drink it at set times.
• English Standard Version (ESV)And water you shall drink by measure, the sixth part of a hin; from day to day you shall drink.
• New King James Version (NKJV)You shall also drink water by measure, one-sixth of a hin; from time to time you shall drink.

Context of Ezekiel 4:11

9“But as for you, take wheat, barley, beans, lentils, millet and spelt, put them in one vessel and make them into bread for yourself; you shall eat it according to the number of the days that you lie on your side, three hundred and ninety days. 10Your food which you eat shall be twenty shekels a day by weight; you shall eat it from time to time. The water you drink shall be the sixth part of a hin by measure; you shall drink it from time to time. 12You shall eat it as a barley cake, having baked it in their sight over human dung.” 13Then the Lord said, “Thus will the sons of Israel eat their bread unclean among the nations where I will banish them.”

Ezekiel 4:11 word by word

וּמַ֛יִם בִּמְשׂוּרָ֥ה תִשְׁתֶּ֖ה שִׁשִּׁ֣ית הַהִ֑ין מֵעֵ֥ת עַד־עֵ֖ת תִּשְׁתֶּֽה׃Read the interlinear

• The waterמַיmayim · waterH4325
• you drinkשָׁתָהshâthâh · to drinkH8354
• shall be the sixthשִׁשִּׁיshishshîy · sixthH8345
• of a hinהִיןhîyn · hinH1969
• by measureמְשׂוּרָהmeώûrâh · capacityH4884
• it from timeעֵת‛êth · timeH6256

Commentaries on Ezekiel 4:11

• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 11Water by measure - This probably corresponds to the water of affliction 1 Kings 22:27; Isaiah 30:20. The measure of the hin is variously estimated by Jewish writers. The sixth part of a hin will be according to one estimate about 610ths, according to another 910ths of a pint. The lesser estimate is more suitable here.Read the comment
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 9-17Verses 9-17 The bread which was Ezekiel's support, was to be made of coarse grain and pulse mixed together, seldom used except in times of urgent scarcity, and of this he was only to take a small quantity. Thus was figured the extremity to which the Jews were to be reduced during the siege and captivity. Ezekiel does not plead, Lord, from my youth I have been brought up delicately, and never used to any thing like this; but that he had been brought up…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 9-17The near-starvation diet of eight ounces of food and a jar of water each day represents siege rations. This reflects a desperate situation where there was not enough of any one type of grain to make a whole loaf.Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1111. sixth ... of ... hin--about a pint and a half.Read the comment

Topics related to Ezekiel 4:11

• Instruction
• Measure
• Symbols and Similitudes
• Water

In the dictionaries

• Care
• Cherub
• Drink
• Living creatures
• Agabus
• Hosea
• Measure; Measures
• Water
• Zedekiah (2)
• Weights and Measures

Commentaries on Ezekiel 4

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Calvin’s Commentaries
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings