Ezekiel 17:20
Old Testament • 10 words with Strong's data
"And I will spread my net upon him, and he shall be taken in my snare, and I will bring him to Babylon, and will plead with him there for his trespass that he hath trespassed against me."
Word-by-Word Analysis
לָקַח
lâqach
to take (in the widest variety of applications)
פַּח
pach
a (metallic) sheet (as pounded thin); also a spring net (as spread out like a lamina)
בּוֹא
bôwʼ
to go or come (in a wide variety of applications)
בָּבֶל
Bâbel
Babel (i.e. Babylon), including Babylonia and the Babylonian empire
רִיב
rîyb
properly, to toss, i.e. grapple; mostly figuratively, to wrangle, i.e. hold a controversy; (by implication) to defend
מָעַל
mâʻal
properly, to cover up; used only figuratively, to act covertly, i.e. treacherously
קִרְאָה
qirʼâh
an encountering, accidental, friendly or hostile (also adverbially, opposite)
Key Terms in This Verse
מָעַל mâʻal
properly, to cover up; used only figuratively, to act covertly, i.e. treacherously
Study H4603 →רִיב rîyb
properly, to toss, i.e. grapple; mostly figuratively, to wrangle, i.e. hold a controversy; (by implication) to defend
Study H7378 →פַּח pach
a (metallic) sheet (as pounded thin); also a spring net (as spread out like a lamina)
Study H6341 →בָּבֶל Bâbel
Babel (i.e. Babylon), including Babylonia and the Babylonian empire
Study H894 →קִרְאָה qirʼâh
an encountering, accidental, friendly or hostile (also adverbially, opposite)
Study H7125 →Cross References
My net also will I spread upon him, and he shall be taken in my snare: and I will bring him to Babylon to the land of the Chaldeans; yet shall he not see it, though he shall die there.
Thus saith the Lord GOD; I will therefore spread out my net over thee with a company of many people; and they shall bring thee up in my net.
Yet thou sayest, Because I am innocent, surely his anger shall turn from me. Behold, I will plead with thee, because thou sayest, I have not sinned.
And I will plead against him with pestilence and with blood; and I will rain upon him, and upon his bands, and upon the many people that are with him, an overflowing rain, and great hailstones, fire, ...
Behold, he shall come up like a lion from the swelling of Jordan unto the habitation of the strong: but I will make them suddenly run away from her: and who is a chosen man, that I may appoint over he...
When they shall go, I will spread my net upon them; I will bring them down as the fowls of the heaven; I will chastise them, as their congregation hath heard.
Plead with your mother, plead: for she is not my wife, neither am I her husband: let her therefore put away her whoredoms out of her sight, and her adulteries from between her breasts;
For man also knoweth not his time: as the fishes that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are caught in the snare; so are the sons of men snared in an evil time, when it falleth suddenly u...
The breath of our nostrils, the anointed of the LORD, was taken in their pits, of whom we said, Under his shadow we shall live among the heathen.
For as a snare shall it come on all them that dwell on the face of the whole earth.
For it increaseth. Thou huntest me as a fierce lion: and again thou shewest thyself marvellous upon me.
Wherefore I will yet plead with you, saith the LORD, and with your children’s children will I plead.
From above hath he sent fire into my bones, and it prevaileth against them: he hath spread a net for my feet, he hath turned me back: he hath made me desolate and faint all the day.
Wherefore the LORD brought upon them the captains of the host of the king of Assyria, which took Manasseh among the thorns, and bound him with fetters, and carried him to Babylon.
And Absalom met the servants of David. And Absalom rode upon a mule, and the mule went under the thick boughs of a great oak, and his head caught hold of the oak, and he was taken up between the heave...
Hear ye, O mountains, the LORD’s controversy, and ye strong foundations of the earth: for the LORD hath a controversy with his people, and he will plead with Israel.
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