Ezekiel 31
Study sheet, King James Version, with the original-language words this chapter turns on.
The text
1And it came to pass in the eleventh year, in the third month, in the first day of the month, that the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
2Son of man, speak unto Pharaoh king of Egypt, and to his multitude; Whom art thou like in thy greatness?
3Behold, the Assyrian was a cedar in Lebanon with fair branches, and with a shadowing shroud, and of an high stature; and his top was among the thick boughs.
4The waters made him great, the deep set him up on high with her rivers running round about his plants, and sent out her little rivers unto all the trees of the field.
5Therefore his height was exalted above all the trees of the field, and his boughs were multiplied, and his branches became long because of the multitude of waters, when he shot forth.
6All the fowls of heaven made their nests in his boughs, and under his branches did all the beasts of the field bring forth their young, and under his shadow dwelt all great nations.
7Thus was he fair in his greatness, in the length of his branches: for his root was by great waters.
8The cedars in the garden of God could not hide him: the fir trees were not like his boughs, and the chesnut trees were not like his branches; nor any tree in the garden of God was like unto him in his beauty.
9I have made him fair by the multitude of his branches: so that all the trees of Eden, that were in the garden of God, envied him.
10Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thou hast lifted up thyself in height, and he hath shot up his top among the thick boughs, and his heart is lifted up in his height;
11I have therefore delivered him into the hand of the mighty one of the heathen; he shall surely deal with him: I have driven him out for his wickedness.
12And strangers, the terrible of the nations, have cut him off, and have left him: upon the mountains and in all the valleys his branches are fallen, and his boughs are broken by all the rivers of the land; and all the people of the earth are gone down from his shadow, and have left him.
13Upon his ruin shall all the fowls of the heaven remain, and all the beasts of the field shall be upon his branches:
14To 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 water: for they are all delivered unto death, to the nether parts of the earth, in the midst of the children of men, with them that go down to the pit.
15Thus saith the Lord GOD; In the day when he went down to the grave I caused a mourning: I covered the deep for him, and I restrained the floods thereof, and the great waters were stayed: and I caused Lebanon to mourn for him, and all the trees of the field fainted for him.
16I 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, shall be comforted in the nether parts of the earth.
17They also went down into hell with him unto them that be slain with the sword; and they that were his arm, that dwelt under his shadow in the midst of the heathen.
18To whom art thou thus like in glory and in greatness among the trees of Eden? yet shalt thou be brought down with the trees of Eden unto the nether parts of the earth: thou shalt lie in the midst of the uncircumcised with them that be slain by the sword. This is Pharaoh and all his multitude, saith the Lord GOD.
Words in this chapter
Definitions are Strong's own wording from his Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Counts are how often each word appears in this chapter, from the tagged text.
- כֹּלkôlH360519× in this chapter
properly, the whole; hence, all, any or every (in the singular only, but often in a plural sense)
- אֵלʼêlH41317× in this chapter
near, with or among; often in general, to
- עֵץʻêtsH60869× in this chapter
a tree (from its firmness); hence, wood (plural sticks)
- יָרַדyâradH33817× in this chapter
to descend (literally, to go downwards; or conventionally to a lower region, as the shore, a boundary, the enemy, etc.; or figuratively, to fall); causatively, to bring down (in all the above applications)
- לֹאlôʼH38087× in this chapter
not (the simple or abs. negation); by implication, no; often used with other particles
- מַיִםmayimH43257× in this chapter
water; figuratively, juice; by euphemism, urine, semen
- הָיָהhâyâhH19616× in this chapter
to exist, i.e. be or become, come to pass (always emphatic, and not a mere copula or auxiliary)
- גּוֹיgôwyH14715× in this chapter
a foreign nation; hence, a Gentile; also (figuratively) a troop of animals, or a flight of locusts
- עַלʻalH59215× in this chapter
above, over, upon, or against (yet always in this last relation with a downward aspect) in a great variety of applications
- פְּאֹרָהpᵉʼôrâhH62885× in this chapter
properly, ornamentation, i.e. (plural) foliage (including the limbs) as bright green
- שָׂדֶהsâdehH77045× in this chapter
a field (as flat)
- אֶרֶץʼeretsH7765× in this chapter
the earth (at large, or partitively a land)
- אֵתʼêthH8535× in this chapter
properly, self (but generally used to point out more definitely the object of a verb or preposition, even or namely)
- דָּמָהdâmâhH18194× in this chapter
to compare; by implication, to resemble, liken, consider
- נָתַןnâthanH54144× in this chapter
to give, used with greatest latitude of application (put, make, etc.)
- אָמַרʼâmarH5594× in this chapter
to say (used with great latitude)
- עֵדֶןʻÊdenH57314× in this chapter
Eden, the region of Adam's home
- קוֹמָהqôwmâhH69674× in this chapter
height
- רַבrabH72274× in this chapter
abundant (in quantity, size, age, number, rank, quality)
- אֵתʼêthH8544× in this chapter
properly, nearness (used only as a preposition or an adverb), near; hence, generally, with, by, at, among, etc.
- אֲדֹנָיʼĂdônâyH1363× in this chapter
the Lord (used as a proper name of God only)
- גָּבַהּgâbahhH13613× in this chapter
to soar, i.e. be lofty; figuratively, to be haughty
- גֹּדֶלgôdelH14333× in this chapter
magnitude (literally or figuratively)
- גַּןganH15883× in this chapter
a garden (as fenced)
- דָּלִיָּהdâlîyâhH18083× in this chapter
something dangling, i.e. a bough
- יְהֹוִהYᵉhôvihH30693× in this chapter
{YHWH}
- לְבָנוֹןLᵉbânôwnH38443× in this chapter
Lebanon, a mountain range in Palestine
- אֱלֹהִיםʼĕlôhîymH4303× in this chapter
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 deference to magistrates; and sometimes as a superlative
- עֲבֹתʻăbôthH56883× in this chapter
something intwined, i.e. a string, wreath or foliage
- עָשָׂהʻâsâhH62133× in this chapter
to do or make, in the broadest sense and widest application
- צֵלtsêlH67383× in this chapter
shade, whether literal or figurative
- צַמֶּרֶתtsammerethH67883× in this chapter
fleeciness, i.e. foliage
- שְׁאוֹלshᵉʼôwlH75853× in this chapter
Hades or the world of the dead (as if a subterranean retreat), including its accessories and inmates
- אֲשֶׁרʼăsherH8343× in this chapter
who, which, what, that; also (as an adverb and a conjunction) when, where, how, because, in order that, etc.
- תָּוֶךְtâvekH84323× in this chapter
a bisection, i.e. (by implication) the centre
- תַּחְתִּיtachtîyH84823× in this chapter
lowermost; as noun (feminine plural) the depths (figuratively, a pit, the womb)
- בֵּיןbêynH9963× in this chapter
between (repeated before each noun, often with other particles); also as a conjunction, either...or
- בֵּןbênH11212× in this chapter
a son (as a builder of the family name), in the widest sense (of literal and figurative relationship, including grandson, subject, nation, quality or condition, etc., (like father or brother), etc.)
- אָדָםʼâdâmH1202× in this chapter
ruddy i.e. a human being (an individual or the species, mankind, etc.)
- גֹּבַהּgôbahhH13632× in this chapter
elation, grandeur, arrogance