וַיַּעֲבִרֵ֥נִי (way·ya·‘ă·ḇi·rê·nî) in Ezekiel 47:4: 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

After another thousand-cubit measure, the sequence verb again presents the man conducting Ezekiel through the water. This token belongs specifically to the knee-deep clause, not to the later waist-deep repetition in the same verse.

The form opens the second measured crossing and attaches Ezekiel's guided passage to the knee-deep water stated immediately afterward.

This token follows the verse's first measurement and is completed by the knee-depth expression that follows it.

The second measure-and-passage cycle, spanning Ezekiel 47:3-4.

It conducts Ezekiel through the next measured section and locates this occurrence at the knee-deep point in the rising-water sequence.

It is not the identical-looking token later in verse 4, and its morphology does not assign a spiritual meaning to knee depth.

High: The form marks the knee-deep passage and must be distinguished from an identical later token in the same verse.

First verse-4 Hifil sequence verb with first-person suffix. conducts Ezekiel through the section identified as knee-deep. Attached to the thousand-cubit measurement and following knee-depth expression. Governed by the second measure-and-lead cycle. Token position and adjacent wording distinguish this occurrence from the later repetition.

How can readers tell which repeated form this guide explains? It is token 3, immediately followed by the knee-depth wording; token 9 belongs to the waist-deep clause.

Direct: The causative verb and first-person suffix support and led me through in the first clause of verse 4.

The surface and morphology recur later in the verse, so reference alone is not enough; token identity matters. The sequence form links the action to another measurement but does not turn repetition into a symbolic formula. The knee-depth relation comes from the following word, not from H5674's lexical identity.

Same spelling means same occurrence: Use the one-based token and adjacent depth term to distinguish the two verse-4 witnesses. knee depth encodes a spiritual tier: The text reports progressive depth in a vision; any theological synthesis must arise from the whole passage. causative grammar supplies symbolic identity: Hifil explains the participant relation in the clause, not every referent in the vision.

The first H5674 row in Ezekiel 47:4 is token 3, וַיַּעֲבִרֵ֥נִי, parsed Conj-w | V-Hifil-ConsecImperf-3ms | 1cs and followed by the knee-depth wording.

The lemma עָבַר is used here in a causative construction for conducting someone through. The first-person ending fixes Ezekiel's role in this specific clause.

The clause repeats the measure-then-lead pattern from verse 3, but its following depth term makes this the knee-deep occurrence. A later identical form belongs to the waist-deep clause.

As the temple water grows, Ezekiel is led through successively deeper measured sections until the river can no longer be crossed on foot.

The guided progression prepares for the vision's description of a life-giving river; its theological force comes from the narrated whole, not a depth chart imposed on the verb.

Point out the token position and the following knee-depth term, then compare the repeated clause later in the verse so readers can see how repetition and change work together.

Do not merge the two verse-4 occurrences, derive a spiritual growth scheme from knee depth, or use the causative stem as a complete interpretation of the vision.