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O.T. prophet
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ezekiel
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Ezekiel (; , Y'ḥez'qel , ), meaning "May God strengthen him", "God will strengthen" (from , ḥazaq , , literally "to fasten upon", figuratively "strong", and , el , , literally "God", and so figuratively "The Almighty") is the central protagonist of the ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
masc. proper name; in Old Testament, name of a book and of one of the great prophets of Israel, from Late Latin Ezechiel , from Greek Iezekiel , from Hebrew Yehezqel , literally "God strengthens," from hazaq "he was strong, he strengthened" + El "God."
Usage examples of ezekiel.
The knowledge with which Ezekiel had entrusted High Priest Khatin was far too potent to dispense except to those for whom it was meant.
As it had been with Khatin, Keeper of the Tablets of Ezekiel, his eyes burned with cold star fire out of a white-frothed face like serrated parchment.
Like all of the other Hebrew ancients, Ezekiel read his prophecies in the stars.
Bestha and her party of dedicated followers of Ezekiel had been on their way to E-Zida when an ugly band of Assyrian slave traders caught them unaware, by night.
Before he died, Ezekiel admonished his daughter to seek the sheltering wisdom of the Eternal Star Priests.
He watched her large Semitic eyes grow larger still with awe and a kind of terror in learning what Ezekiel had learned.
Maybe one of their priests had the same kind of a flash of truth that Ezekiel had.
The creature you call Trog brought us to Ezekiel in order that the bits of knowledge each of us had learned might be pieced together for his fiendish uses.
And Ezekiel had refused to divulge his portion of the secrettruly the very heart and core of the cosmic mystery!
Jon and all the random flecks of knowledge he had sopped up since Ezekiel would MAKE it possible!
For this Ezekiel had buried the secret Tablets in the Eternal Temple of E-Zida.
Specials and by the knowledge we pieced together from Ezekiel and the others wehey!
I said again and took out of the locker an armful of documents, brandished them, then walked over and put them on the pit of his stomach forcing Ezekiel with a puzzled, terrified expression to bring his arms down, gather them in.
I gave to Ezekiel, a duplicate of the very weapon bouncing and jouncing within my own clothing.
I could at any time call it to an end, make both Ezekiel and ship disappear, was what enabled me to bear it for ten centuries.