Ezekiel 19

Ezekiel · Chapter 19

Ezekiel 19:8

1Moreover take thou up a lamentation for the princes of Israel,2And say, What is thy mother? A lioness: she lay down among lions, she nourished her whelps among young lions.3And she brought up one of her whelps: it became a young lion, and it learned to catch the prey; it devoured men.4The nations also heard of him; he was taken in their pit, and they brought him with chains unto the land of Egypt.5Now when she saw that she had waited, and her hope was lost, then she took another of her whelps, and made him a young lion.6And he went up and down among the lions, he became a young lion, and learned to catch the prey, and devoured men.7And he knew their desolate palaces, and he laid waste their cities; and the land was desolate, and the fulness thereof, by the noise of his roaring.8Then the nations set against him on every side from the provinces, and spread their net over him: he was taken in their pit.9And they put him in ward in chains, and brought him to the king of Babylon: they brought him into holds, that his voice should no more be heard upon the mountains of Israel.10Thy mother is like a vine in thy blood, planted by the waters: she was fruitful and full of branches by reason of many waters.11And she had strong rods for the sceptres of them that bare rule, and her stature was exalted among the thick branches, and she appeared in her height with the multitude of her branches.12But she was plucked up in fury, she was cast down to the ground, and the east wind dried up her fruit: her strong rods were broken and withered; the fire consumed them.13And now she is planted in the wilderness, in a dry and thirsty ground.14And fire is gone out of a rod of her branches, which hath devoured her fruit, so that she hath no strong rod to be a sceptre to rule. This is a lamentation, and shall be for a lamentation.

King James Version (1769)

Other translations

VerseKJVBSBASV
8Then the nations set against him on every side from the provinces, and spread their net over him: he was taken in their pit.Then the nations set out against him from the provinces on every side. They spread their net over him; he was trapped in their pit.Then the nations set against him on every side from the provinces; and they spread their net over him; he was taken in their pit.

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Original Hebrew words

EnglishHebrewSay itStrong'sMeaning
and they setוַיִּתְּנ֨וּvai-yi-te-NUH5414H
to give: give

נָתַן (na.tan) : give/deliver/send/produce 1) to give, put, set 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to give, bestow, grant, permit, ascribe, employ, devote, consecrate, dedicate, pay wages, sell, exchange, lend, commit, entrust, give over, deliver up, yield produce, occasion, produce, requite to, report, mention, utter, stretch out, extend 1a2) to put, set, put on, put upon, set, appoint, assign, designate 1a3) to make, constitute 1b) (Niphal) 1b1) to be given, be bestowed, be provided, be entrusted to, be granted to, be permitted, be issued, be published, be uttered, be assigned 1b2) to be set, be put, be made, be inflicted …

on itעָלָ֥יו'a-LAVH5921A
upon

עַל (al) prep 1) upon, on the ground of, according to, on account of, on behalf of, concerning, beside, in addition to, together with, beyond, above, over, by, on to, towards, to, against 1a) upon, on the ground of, on the basis of, on account of, because of, therefore, on behalf of, for the sake of, for, with, in spite of, notwithstanding, concerning, in the matter of, as regards 1b) above, beyond, over (of excess) 1c) above, over (of elevation or pre-eminence) 1d) upon, to, over to, unto, in addition to, together with, with (of addition) 1e) over (of suspension or extension) …

nationsגּוֹיִ֛םgo-YIMH1471A
nation

גּוֹי (goy) 1) nation, people 1a) nation, people 1a1) usually of non-Hebrew people 1a2) of descendants of Abraham 1a3) of Israel 1b) of swarm of locusts, other animals (fig.)

all aroundסָבִ֖יבsa-VIVH5439H
around

סָבִיב (sa.viv) : around/border subst 1) places round about, circuit, round about adv 2) in a circuit, a circuit, round about prep 3) in the circuit, from every side

from provincesמִמְּדִינ֑וֹתmi-me-di-NOTH4082
province

מְדִינָה (me.di.nah) 1) province, district 1a) district 1b) province Aramaic equivalent: me.di.nah (מְדִינָה "province" H4083)

and they spread outוַֽיִּפְרְשׂ֥וּvai-yif-re-SUH6566
to spread

פָּרַשׂ (pa.ra.s) 1) to spread, spread out, stretch, break in pieces 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to spread out, display 1a2) to spread over 1b) (Niphal) to be scattered, be spread out 1c) (Piel) 1c1) to spread out 1c1) to scatter

over itעָלָ֛יו'a-LAVH5921A
upon

עַל (al) prep 1) upon, on the ground of, according to, on account of, on behalf of, concerning, beside, in addition to, together with, beyond, above, over, by, on to, towards, to, against 1a) upon, on the ground of, on the basis of, on account of, because of, therefore, on behalf of, for the sake of, for, with, in spite of, notwithstanding, concerning, in the matter of, as regards 1b) above, beyond, over (of excess) 1c) above, over (of elevation or pre-eminence) 1d) upon, to, over to, unto, in addition to, together with, with (of addition) 1e) over (of suspension or extension) …

net theirרִשְׁתָּ֖םrish-TAMH7568
net

רֶ֫שֶׁת (re.shet) 1) net 1a) net 1a1) for catching 1a2) of judgment (fig) 1a3) of leaders leading people to sin 1a4) as a trap for man 1b) network (brazen-for altar of tabernacle)

in pit theirבְּשַׁחְתָּ֥םbe-shach-TAMH7845H
pit: grave

שַׁ֫חַת (sha.chat) 1) pit, destruction, grave 1a) pit (for catching lions)

it was caughtנִתְפָּֽשׂ׃nit-PASH8610
to capture

תָּפַשׂ (ta.pha.s) 1) to catch, handle, lay hold, take hold of, seize, wield 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to lay hold of, seize, arrest, catch 1a2) to grasp (in order to) wield, wield, use skilfully 1b) (Niphal) to be seized, be arrested, be caught, be taken, captured 1c) (Piel) to catch, grasp (with the hands)

Words and meanings from STEPBible data (Tyndale House, Cambridge, CC BY 4.0). The capitalized syllable is the stressed one.