The Meaning of Ezekiel 22:26 Explained

Ezekiel 22:26

KJV: Her priests have violated my law, and have profaned mine holy things: they have put no difference between the holy and profane, neither have they shewed difference between the unclean and the clean, and have hid their eyes from my sabbaths, and I am profaned among them.

YLT: Its priests have wronged My law, And they pollute My holy things, Between holy and common they have not made separation, And between the unclean and the clean they have not made known, And from my sabbaths they have hidden their eyes, And I am pierced in their midst.

Darby: her priests do violence to my law, and profane my holy things: they put no difference between the holy and profane, neither do they make known the difference between the unclean and the clean, and they hide their eyes from my sabbaths, and I am profaned among them.

ASV: Her priests have done violence to my law, and have profaned my holy things: they have made no distinction between the holy and the common, neither have they caused men to discern between the unclean and the clean, and have hid their eyes from my sabbaths, and I am profaned among them.

KJV Reverse Interlinear

Her priests  have violated  my law,  and have profaned  mine holy things:  they have put no difference  between the holy  and profane,  neither have they shewed  [difference] between the unclean  and the clean,  and have hid  their eyes  from my sabbaths,  and I am profaned  among  them. 

What does Ezekiel 22:26 Mean?

Verse Meaning

The priests had also abused the Mosaic Law and had made common what should have been set apart to the Lord. They had treated holy and profane things the same, and they had failed to teach the people the difference between clean and unclean things that the law distinguished. They had made the holy city and the holy land anything but holy. Furthermore they did not observe the Sabbath. In short, they did not hallow the name of the Lord (cf. Hosea 4:6; Malachi 2:6-8).

Chapter Summary: Ezekiel 22

1  A catalogue of sins in Jerusalem, and the dispersion of the Jews in consequence
17  God will burn them as dross in his furnace
23  The general corruption of prophets, priests, princes, and the people

What do the individual words in Ezekiel 22:26 mean?

Her priests have violated My law and profaned My holy things between the holy and unholy not they have distinguished and between the unclean and the clean nor have they made known the [difference] and from My Sabbaths they have hidden their eyes so that I am profaned among them
כֹּהֲנֶ֜יהָ חָמְס֣וּ תוֹרָתִי֮ וַיְחַלְּל֣וּ קָדָשַׁי֒ בֵּֽין־ קֹ֤דֶשׁ לְחֹל֙ לֹ֣א הִבְדִּ֔ילוּ וּבֵין־ הַטָּמֵ֥א לְטָה֖וֹר לֹ֣א הוֹדִ֑יעוּ וּמִשַׁבְּתוֹתַי֙ הֶעְלִ֣ימוּ עֵֽינֵיהֶ֔ם וָאֵחַ֖ל בְּתוֹכָֽם

כֹּהֲנֶ֜יהָ  Her  priests 
Parse: Noun, masculine plural construct, third person feminine singular
Root: כֹּהֵן  
Sense: priest, principal officer or chief ruler.
חָמְס֣וּ  have  violated 
Parse: Verb, Qal, Perfect, third person common plural
Root: חָמַס 
Sense: to wrong, do violence to, treat violently, do wrongly.
תוֹרָתִי֮  My  law 
Parse: Noun, feminine singular construct, first person common singular
Root: תֹּורָה  
Sense: law, direction, instruction.
וַיְחַלְּל֣וּ  and  profaned 
Parse: Conjunctive waw, Verb, Piel, Consecutive imperfect, third person masculine plural
Root: חָלַל 
Sense: to profane, defile, pollute, desecrate, begin.
קָדָשַׁי֒  My  holy  things 
Parse: Noun, masculine plural construct, first person common singular
Root: קֹדֶשׁ  
Sense: apartness, holiness, sacredness, separateness.
בֵּֽין־  between 
Parse: Preposition
Root: בַּיִן 
Sense: between, among, in the midst of (with other preps), from between.
קֹ֤דֶשׁ  the  holy 
Parse: Noun, masculine singular
Root: קֹדֶשׁ  
Sense: apartness, holiness, sacredness, separateness.
לְחֹל֙  and  unholy 
Parse: Preposition-l, Noun, masculine singular
Root: חֹל  
Sense: profaneness, commonness, unholy, profane, common, sand.
הִבְדִּ֔ילוּ  they  have  distinguished 
Parse: Verb, Hifil, Perfect, third person common plural
Root: בָּדַל  
Sense: to divide, separate.
וּבֵין־  and  between 
Parse: Conjunctive waw, Preposition
Root: בַּיִן 
Sense: between, among, in the midst of (with other preps), from between.
הַטָּמֵ֥א  the  unclean 
Parse: Article, Adjective, masculine singular
Root: טָמֵא  
Sense: unclean, impure.
לְטָה֖וֹר  and  the  clean 
Parse: Preposition-l, Adjective, masculine singular
Root: טָהֹור  
Sense: pure, clean.
לֹ֣א  nor 
Parse: Adverb, Negative particle
Root: הֲלֹא 
Sense: not, no.
הוֹדִ֑יעוּ  have  they  made  known  the  [difference] 
Parse: Verb, Hifil, Perfect, third person common plural
Root: דָּעָה 
Sense: to know.
וּמִשַׁבְּתוֹתַי֙  and  from  My  Sabbaths 
Parse: Conjunctive waw, Preposition-m, Noun, common plural construct, first person common singular
Root: שַׁבָּת  
Sense: Sabbath.
הֶעְלִ֣ימוּ  they  have  hidden 
Parse: Verb, Hifil, Perfect, third person common plural
Root: עָלַם  
Sense: to conceal, hide, be hidden, be concealed, be secret.
עֵֽינֵיהֶ֔ם  their  eyes 
Parse: Noun, cdc, third person masculine plural
Root: עֹונָה 
Sense: eye.
וָאֵחַ֖ל  so  that  I  am  profaned 
Parse: Conjunctive waw, Verb, Nifal, Consecutive imperfect, first person common singular
Root: חָלַל 
Sense: to profane, defile, pollute, desecrate, begin.
בְּתוֹכָֽם  among  them 
Parse: Preposition-b, Noun, masculine singular construct, third person masculine plural
Root: תָּוֶךְ  
Sense: midst, middle.