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Ezekiel 4:11

Thou shalt drink also water by measure, the sixth part of an hin: from time to time shalt thou drink.

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וּמַ֛יִםumayimand waterמַיִםconjunction, noun, common, masculine, plural, absolute — “and water”, the ordinary formH4325water; figuratively, juice; by euphemism, urine, semen[phrase] piss, wasting, water(-ing, (-course, -flood, -spring)).בִּמְשׂוּרָ֥הbimsurahin measureמְשׂוּרָהpreposition, noun, common, feminine, singular, absolute — “in measure”, the ordinary formH4884a measure (for liquids)measure.תִשְׁתֶּ֖הtishtehbanquetשָׁתָהverb, qal, imperfect, 2nd person, masculine, singular — “banquet”, an unfinished actionH8354to imbibe (literally or figuratively)[idiom] assuredly, banquet, [idiom] certainly, drink(-er, -ing), drunk ([idiom] -ard), surely. (Prop. intensive of H8248 (שָׁקָה).)שִׁשִּׁ֣יתshishitsixthשִׁשִּׁיadjective, ordinal, feminine, singular, absolute — “sixth”, the ordinary formH8345sixth, ord. or (feminine) fractionalsixth (part).הַהִ֑יןhahinthe hinהִיןdefinite article, noun, common, masculine, singular, absolute — “the hin”, the ordinary formH1969a hin or liquid measurehin.מֵעֵ֥תmeetfrom whenעֵתpreposition, noun, common, both genders, singular, absolute — “from when”, the ordinary formH6256time, especially (adverb with preposition) now, when, etc.[phrase] after, (al-) ways, [idiom] certain, [phrase] continually, [phrase] evening, long, (due) season, so (long) as, (even-, evening-, noon-) tide, (meal-), what) time, when.עַדadevenעַדpreposition — “even”H5704as far (or long, or much) as, whether of space (even unto) or time (during, while, until) or degree (equally with)against, and, as, at, before, by (that), even (to), for(-asmuch as), (hither-) to, [phrase] how long, into, as long (much) as, (so) that, till, toward, until, when, while, ([phrase] as) yet.עֵ֖תetwhenעֵתnoun, common, both genders, singular, absolute — “when”, the ordinary formH6256time, especially (adverb with preposition) now, when, etc.[phrase] after, (al-) ways, [idiom] certain, [phrase] continually, [phrase] evening, long, (due) season, so (long) as, (even-, evening-, noon-) tide, (meal-), what) time, when.תִּשְׁתֶּֽהtishtehbanquetשָׁתָהverb, qal, imperfect, 2nd person, masculine, singular — “banquet”, an unfinished actionH8354to imbibe (literally or figuratively)[idiom] assuredly, banquet, [idiom] certainly, drink(-er, -ing), drunk ([idiom] -ard), surely. (Prop. intensive of H8248 (שָׁקָה).)

Jewish translation (JPS 1917)

Thou shalt drink also water by measure, the sixth part of a hin; from time to time shalt thou drink.

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American Standard Version (1901)

And thou shalt drink water by measure, the sixth part of a hin: from time to time shalt thou drink.

Young’s Literal Translation

'And water by measure thou dost drink, a sixth part of the hin; from time to time thou dost drink [it].

World English Bible

You shall drink water by measure, the sixth part of a hin. From time to time you shall drink.

Darby Translation

And thou shalt drink water by measure, the sixth part of a hin: from time to time shalt thou drink.

Douay-Rheims

And thou shalt drink water by measure, the sixth part of a hin: from time to time thou shalt drink it,

Jewish Publication Society (1917)

Thou shalt drink also water by measure, the sixth part of a hin; from time to time shalt thou drink.

Brenton’s Septuagint (1851), English

And thou shalt drink water by measure, even from time to time thou shalt drink the sixth part of a hin.

Septuagint (Brenton’s Greek, 1851)

Καὶ ὕδωρ ἐν μέτρῳ πίεσαι, καὶ τὸ ἕκτον τοῦ εἲν ἀπὸ καιροῦ ἕως καιροῦ πίεσαι.