| 4. Linguistic Exegesis The verse opens with the emphatic interrogative repetition of hatispot {הֲתִשְׁפֹּט | ha-tiš-pōṭ} ‘will you judge’ combined with the object marker otam {אֹתָם | ʾō-ṯām} ‘them’, intensifying the rhetorical challenge. The address ben adam {בֶּן־אָדָם | ben ʾā-ḏām} ‘son of man’ functions as the prophetic vocative marking Ezekiel’s representative role. The Hiphil imperative habeda {הַבֵּדַע | ha-bē-ḏaʿ} ‘cause to know’ introduces the first commanding clause. The direct object marker et {אֵת | ʾēṯ} precedes the noun phrase toavot {תּוֹעֲבוֹת | tō-ʿa-ḇōṯ} ‘abominations’ in construct with avotam {אֲבוֹתָם | ʾă-ḇō-ṯām} ‘their fathers’, linking current guilt to ancestral sin. The sequence concludes with the Hiphil perfect hodiehem {הוֹדִיעֵם | hō-ḏî-ʿēm} ‘make them know’, forming a parallel causative clause. The interplay of judicial interrogation and parallel causative imperatives underscores both accountability and the prophetic duty to expose inherited iniquities. |