וַיַּעֲבִרֵ֥נִי (way·ya·‘ă·ḇi·rê·nî) in Ezekiel 47:3: Conjunctive waw | Verb - Hifil - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular | first person common singular

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 waw-linked sequence form carries the vision forward from measuring to passage through the water. The Hifil presents the man as causing the speaker to pass, and the first-person suffix identifies the one being led.

This occurrence reports the first measured passage through the river, where the water reaches the ankles.

The verb follows the first thousand-cubit measurement and takes the first-person speaker as its suffixed participant.

The eastward measuring sequence in Ezekiel 47:3.

It moves the vision from measured distance to embodied passage, with the man conducting Ezekiel through ankle-deep water.

It does not by itself assign symbolic meanings to the man, the thousand cubits, the ankles, or the river.

High: The form marks Ezekiel's first guided passage through the measured river and begins the repeated depth sequence.

Waw-linked Hifil consecutive imperfect with first-person suffix. causes the speaker to pass through the ankle-deep water. Attached to the measuring man's action and Ezekiel as the suffixed participant. Governed by the first thousand-cubit measurement. The form identifies participants and sequence; the vision supplies symbolic significance.

Why is Ezekiel more than an observer at the first measured depth? The first-person suffix marks him as the one whom the measuring man leads through the water.

Direct: The Hifil and first-person suffix directly support the rendering and led me through.

H5674 has a wide lexical range, but the causative construction and water setting narrow this occurrence to conducted passage. The consecutive imperfect advances the local vision without specifying how its scenes map onto a chronology beyond the passage. Ankle depth is narrated explicitly, but its symbolic force cannot be derived from morphology.

Hifil proves the guide is God: The stem marks causation; the guide's identity must be argued from the vision, not the stem. ankle depth is a universal spiritual stage: The verse reports a measured depth in Ezekiel's vision and does not prescribe a growth formula. repeated grammar supplies the whole interpretation: Repetition structures the scene, while verses 5-12 describe the river's meaning and effects.

Ezekiel 47:3 token 9 reads וַיַּעֲבִרֵ֥נִי, linked to H5674 and the morphology Conj-w | V-Hifil-ConsecImperf-3ms | 1cs.

H5674 names passing or crossing in a broad range of settings. Here the Hifil construction and the local rendering focus on causing Ezekiel to pass through the water.

The third-person subject is the measuring man, the first-person suffix is Ezekiel, and the waw-linked form continues the narrated sequence after the thousand-cubit measure.

The prophet is led through successively measured depths of water flowing from the temple before the river becomes too deep to cross on foot.

The occurrence belongs to Ezekiel's temple-river vision, where the later verses describe abundant life and healing; the grammar serves that scene without decoding it alone.

Trace the repeated pattern aloud: the man measures, then leads Ezekiel through, and the stated depth changes. Let the full vision explain why the progression matters.

Do not make the Hifil stem prove divine identity for the guide or turn ankle depth into a universal stage of spiritual growth.