Ezekiel 32:18
Old Testament • 15 words with Strong's data
"Son of man, wail for the multitude of Egypt, and cast them down, even her, and the daughters of the famous nations, unto the nether parts of the earth, with them that go down into the pit."
Word-by-Word Analysis
בֵּן
bên
a son (as a builder of the family name), in the widest sense (of literal and figurative relationship, including grandson, subject, nation, quality or ...
אִישׁ
ʼîysh
a man as an individual or a male person; often used as an adjunct to a more definite term (and in such cases frequently not expressed in translation)
נָהָה
nâhâh
to groan, i.e. bewail; hence (through the idea of crying aloud), to assemble (as if on proclamation)
מִצְרַיִם
Mitsrayim
Mitsrajim, i.e. Upper and Lower Egypt
שָׁלַךְ
shâlak
to throw out, down or away (literally or figuratively)
בַּת
bath
a daughter (used in the same wide sense as other terms of relationship, literally and figuratively)
גּוֹי
gôwy
a foreign nation; hence, a Gentile; also (figuratively) a troop of animals, or a flight of locusts
תַּחְתִּי
tachtîy
lowermost; as noun (feminine plural) the depths (figuratively, a pit, the womb)
תַּחְתִּי
tachtîy
lowermost; as noun (feminine plural) the depths (figuratively, a pit, the womb)
אֶרֶץ
ʼerets
the earth (at large, or partitively a land)
יָלַךְ
yâlak
to walk (literally or figuratively); causatively, to carry (in various senses)
בּוֹר
bôwr
a pit hole (especially one used as a cistern or a prison)
Key Terms in This Verse
נָהָה nâhâh
to groan, i.e. bewail; hence (through the idea of crying aloud), to assemble (as if on proclamation)
Study H5091 →תַּחְתִּי tachtîy
lowermost; as noun (feminine plural) the depths (figuratively, a pit, the womb)
Study H8482 →תַּחְתִּי tachtîy
lowermost; as noun (feminine plural) the depths (figuratively, a pit, the womb)
Study H8482 →בַּת bath
a daughter (used in the same wide sense as other terms of relationship, literally and figuratively)
Study H1323 →גּוֹי gôwy
a foreign nation; hence, a Gentile; also (figuratively) a troop of animals, or a flight of locusts
Study H1471 →Cross References
Son of man, take up a lamentation for Pharaoh king of Egypt, and say unto him, Thou art like a young lion of the nations, and thou art as a whale in the seas: and thou camest forth with thy rivers, an...
To the end that none of all the trees by the waters exalt themselves for their height, neither shoot up their top among the thick boughs, neither their trees stand up in their height, all that drink w...
See, I have this day set thee over the nations and over the kingdoms, to root out, and to pull down, and to destroy, and to throw down, to build, and to plant.
Therefore I will wail and howl, I will go stripped and naked: I will make a wailing like the dragons, and mourning as the owls.
This is the lamentation wherewith they shall lament her: the daughters of the nations shall lament her: they shall lament for her, even for Egypt, and for all her multitude, saith the Lord GOD.
When I shall bring thee down with them that descend into the pit, with the people of old time, and shall set thee in the low parts of the earth, in places desolate of old, with them that go down to th...
Therefore I will bewail with the weeping of Jazer the vine of Sibmah: I will water thee with my tears, O Heshbon, and Elealeh: for the shouting for thy summer fruits and for thy harvest is fallen.
I made the nations to shake at the sound of his fall, when I cast him down to hell with them that descend into the pit: and all the trees of Eden, the choice and best of Lebanon, all that drink water,...
And it was according to the appearance of the vision which I saw, even according to the vision that I saw when I came to destroy the city: and the visions were like the vision that I saw by the river ...
Therefore have I hewed them by the prophets; I have slain them by the words of my mouth: and thy judgments are as the light that goeth forth.
Rejoice with them that do rejoice, and weep with them that weep.
What profit is there in my blood, when I go down to the pit? Shall the dust praise thee? shall it declare thy truth?
But those that seek my soul, to destroy it, shall go into the lower parts of the earth.
And when he was come near, he beheld the city, and wept over it,
The strong among the mighty shall speak to him out of the midst of hell with them that help him: they are gone down, they lie uncircumcised, slain by the sword.
Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit.
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