Ezekiel 23:3
Old Testament • 11 words with Strong's data
"And they committed whoredoms in Egypt; they committed whoredoms in their youth: there were their breasts pressed, and there they bruised the teats of their virginity."
Word-by-Word Analysis
עָשָׂה
ʻâsâh
to do or make, in the broadest sense and widest application
תַּזְנוּת
taznûwth
harlotry, i.e. (figuratively) idolatry
מִצְרַיִם
Mitsrayim
Mitsrajim, i.e. Upper and Lower Egypt
עָשָׂה
ʻâsâh
to do or make, in the broadest sense and widest application
תַּזְנוּת
taznûwth
harlotry, i.e. (figuratively) idolatry
נָעוּר
nâʻûwr
(only in plural collectively or emphatic form) youth, the state (juvenility) or the persons (young people)
שַׁד
shad
the breast of a woman or animal (as bulging)
פָּצַר
pâtsar
to peck at, i.e. (figuratively) stun or dull
עָשָׂה
ʻâsâh
to do or make, in the broadest sense and widest application
דַּד
dad
the breast (as the seat of love, or from its shape)
בְּתוּלִים
bᵉthûwlîym
(collectively and abstractly) virginity; by implication and concretely, the tokens of it
Key Terms in This Verse
עָשָׂה ʻâsâh
to do or make, in the broadest sense and widest application
Study H6213 →בְּתוּלִים bᵉthûwlîym
(collectively and abstractly) virginity; by implication and concretely, the tokens of it
Study H1331 →נָעוּר nâʻûwr
(only in plural collectively or emphatic form) youth, the state (juvenility) or the persons (young people)
Study H5271 →עָשָׂה ʻâsâh
to do or make, in the broadest sense and widest application
Study H6213 →עָשָׂה ʻâsâh
to do or make, in the broadest sense and widest application
Study H6213 →Cross References
And they shall no more offer their sacrifices unto devils, after whom they have gone a whoring. This shall be a statute for ever unto them throughout their generations.
Now therefore fear the LORD, and serve him in sincerity and in truth: and put away the gods which your fathers served on the other side of the flood, and in Egypt; and serve ye the LORD.
And in all thine abominations and thy whoredoms thou hast not remembered the days of thy youth, when thou wast naked and bare, and wast polluted in thy blood.
Neither left she her whoredoms brought from Egypt: for in her youth they lay with her, and they bruised the breasts of her virginity, and poured their whoredom upon her.
Thus thou calledst to remembrance the lewdness of thy youth, in bruising thy teats by the Egyptians for the paps of thy youth.
And I will give her her vineyards from thence, and the valley of Achor for a door of hope: and she shall sing there, as in the days of her youth, and as in the day when she came up out of the land of ...
But they rebelled against me, and would not hearken unto me: they did not every man cast away the abominations of their eyes, neither did they forsake the idols of Egypt: then I said, I will pour out ...
(For ye know how we have dwelt in the land of Egypt; and how we came through the nations which ye passed by;
Yet she multiplied her whoredoms, in calling to remembrance the days of her youth, wherein she had played the harlot in the land of Egypt.
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