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“Now go and get some wheat, barley, beans, lentils, millet, and emmer wheat, and mix them together in a storage jar. Use them to make bread for yourself during the 390 days you will be lying on your side. 10Ration this out to yourself, eight ounces of food for each day, and eat it at set times. Then measure out a jar of water for each day, and drink it at set times. 12Prepare and eat this food as you would barley cakes. While all the people are watching, bake it over a fire using dried human dung as fuel and then eat the bread.” 13Then the Lord said, “This is how Israel will eat defiled bread in the Gentile lands to which I will banish them!”

Ezekiel 4:11 word by word

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

Words taken from the KJV.

• Thou shalt drinkשָׁתָהshâthâh · to drinkH8354
• also waterמַיmayim · waterH4325
• by measureמְשׂוּרָהmeώûrâh · capacityH4884
• the sixth partשִׁשִּׁיshishshîy · sixthH8345
• of an hinהִיןhîyn · hinH1969
• 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