Ezekiel 23:22
Old Testament • 15 words with Strong's data
"Therefore, O Aholibah, thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will raise up thy lovers against thee, from whom thy mind is alienated, and I will bring them against thee on every side;"
Word-by-Word Analysis
כֵּן
kên
properly, set upright; hence (figuratively as adjective) just; but usually (as adverb or conjunction) rightly or so (in various applications to manner...
אׇהֳלִיבָה
ʼOhŏlîybâh
Oholibah, a symbolic name for Judah
אָמַר
ʼâmar
to say (used with great latitude)
יְהֹוָה
Yᵉhôvâh
Jehovah, Jewish national name of God
אֱלֹהִים
ʼĕlôhîym
gods in the ordinary sense; but specifically used (in the plural thus, especially with the article) of the supreme God; occasionally applied by way of...
רָאָה
râʼâh
to see, literally or figuratively (in numerous applications, direct and implied, transitive, intransitive and causative)
קוּם
qûwm
to rise (in various applications, literal, figurative, intensive and causative)
אָהַב
ʼâhab
to have affection for (sexually or otherwise)
קִרְאָה
qirʼâh
an encountering, accidental, friendly or hostile (also adverbially, opposite)
נֶפֶשׁ
nephesh
properly, a breathing creature, i.e. animal of (abstractly) vitality; used very widely in a literal, accommodated or figurative sense (bodily or menta...
יָקַע
yâqaʻ
properly, to sever oneself, i.e. (by implication) to be dislocated; figuratively, to abandon; causatively, to impale (and thus allow to drop to pieces...
בּוֹא
bôwʼ
to go or come (in a wide variety of applications)
קִרְאָה
qirʼâh
an encountering, accidental, friendly or hostile (also adverbially, opposite)
פֵּאָה
pêʼâh
properly, mouth in a figurative sense, i.e. direction, region, extremity
Key Terms in This Verse
יָקַע yâqaʻ
properly, to sever oneself, i.e. (by implication) to be dislocated; figuratively, to abandon; causatively, to impale (and thus allow to drop to pieces by rotting)
Study H3363 →קוּם qûwm
to rise (in various applications, literal, figurative, intensive and causative)
Study H6965 →נֶפֶשׁ nephesh
properly, a breathing creature, i.e. animal of (abstractly) vitality; used very widely in a literal, accommodated or figurative sense (bodily or mental)
Study H5315 →פֵּאָה pêʼâh
properly, mouth in a figurative sense, i.e. direction, region, extremity
Study H6285 →כֵּן kên
properly, set upright; hence (figuratively as adjective) just; but usually (as adverb or conjunction) rightly or so (in various applications to manner, time and relation; often with other particles)
Study H3651 →Cross References
Behold, therefore I will gather all thy lovers, with whom thou hast taken pleasure, and all them that thou hast loved, with all them that thou hast hated; I will even gather them round about against t...
And the ten horns which thou sawest upon the beast, these shall hate the whore, and shall make her desolate and naked, and shall eat her flesh, and burn her with fire.
Wherefore I have delivered her into the hand of her lovers, into the hand of the Assyrians, upon whom she doted.
For thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will deliver thee into the hand of them whom thou hatest, into the hand of them from whom thy mind is alienated:
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