וַיּוֹצִאֵנִי֮ (way·yō·w·ṣi·’ê·nî) in Ezekiel 47:2: Conjunctive waw | Verb - Hifil - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular | first person common singular
וַיּוֹצִאֵנִי֮ (way·yō·w·ṣi·’ê·nî) in Ezekiel 47:2
Source Word
Ezekiel 47:2 token 1 is וַיּוֹצִאֵנִי֮, H3318, parsed Conj-w | V-Hifil-ConsecImperf-3ms | 1cs and aligned with Next he brought me out.
How The Form Affects Interpretation
The causative movement makes Ezekiel's viewpoint deliberate: he is brought outside and around so that the temple water can be seen from a revealing angle.
How To Communicate It
Use the actor-object map and narrated route to connect grammar with observation, allowing the vision's water imagery to unfold from what Ezekiel is shown.
What Not To Say
- Grammatical form should serve context, not override it.
- The temple-vision guide acts here; Ezekiel's first-person suffix places the prophet under the guide's movement.
- The identical H3318 surface at Ezekiel 37:1 has a different subject and setting; morphology alone does not transfer that agency here.
- Explain the route from the narrated vision without presenting a speculative temple layout or fulfillment scheme as grammatical certainty.
What Does The Label Mean?
Hebrew-verb
Verb
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Hifil - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular | first person common singular
Hifil
Consecutive imperfect
Third
Masculine
Singular
Conj-w
First person common singular
The consecutive Hifil continues the guided movement by having the temple-vision guide bring Ezekiel out through the north gate. The first-person suffix marks Ezekiel as the person moved, while the following verb traces the guide leading him around the exterior.
The form changes Ezekiel's vantage point so that he can see the temple water trickling from the south side at the east-facing gate.
What The Form Does In This Verse
The movement follows Ezekiel's view from the temple entrance and begins a route through the north gate around the outside.
The measuring guide's temple tour and Ezekiel's observation of water issuing from the sanctuary.
It reports the guide bringing Ezekiel to an exterior position from which the water's point of emergence can be observed.
It does not present Ezekiel as self-directed, identify the guide as the Lord, make the route irrelevant, or settle every debate about the vision's temple and fulfillment.
How Much The Form Matters Here
High: The verb establishes who controls the movement and why Ezekiel reaches the viewpoint from which the temple water is disclosed.
Consecutive Hifil with first-person object suffix. brings Ezekiel through the north gate before leading him around outside. Attached to the temple guide's continuing tour. Governed by the movement from the temple entrance to the exterior east-facing gate. The coordinated route supplies the vantage point for observing the water.
Is the Lord bringing Ezekiel out here, as in the dry-bones vision? No. In this chapter the temple-vision guide is leading the tour, while the first-person suffix still marks Ezekiel as the person moved.
Direct: Next signals the continuing sequence, brought out expresses causative movement, and me represents the prophet's suffix.
The subject must come from the tour context rather than from an identical form in another chapter. The route is narratively meaningful without requiring every direction to carry a hidden symbolic value. The form positions Ezekiel to see the water but does not by itself interpret all that the river signifies.
Same form means same subject: Use Ezekiel 47's guide context to identify the actor instead of importing the Lord as subject from Ezekiel 37:1. the gate route is meaningless: The movement establishes the exterior viewpoint from which Ezekiel sees the water's emergence. the morphology proves my temple system: The form identifies caused movement and participants, not a complete interpretation of the vision's fulfillment.
How The Interpretation Is Derived
Ezekiel 47:2 token 1 is וַיּוֹצִאֵנִי֮, H3318, parsed Conj-w | V-Hifil-ConsecImperf-3ms | 1cs and aligned with Next he brought me out.
יָצָא describes going out; its Hifil here presents the guide causing Ezekiel to go out from his prior position.
The guide remains the masculine singular actor from the temple tour, the suffix marks Ezekiel, and the coordinated movement leads around the outside toward the gate facing east.
Ezekiel is repositioned to see water coming from the temple and then to follow its measured course into an abundant, life-supporting river.
The vision joins divine presence, holy space, life, and restoration, while its carefully narrated geography should govern claims before broader biblical connections are drawn.
Walk readers through the guide's action and Ezekiel's changing viewpoint, then show how the new position discloses the water that becomes central to the chapter.
Do not confuse this subject with the Lord in Ezekiel 37:1, turn every directional detail into a secret code, or claim that one verb resolves competing temple interpretations.