Ezekiel 19:3

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

And she brought up one of her whelps: he became a young lion, and he learned to catch the prey; he devoured men.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וַתַּ֛עַל אֶחָ֥ד מִגֻּרֶ֖יהָ כְּפִ֣יר הָיָ֑ה וַיִּלְמַ֥ד לִטְרָף־טֶ֖רֶף אָדָ֥ם אָכָֽל׃

Transliteration

wa-taʿal ʾeḥāḏ miggûreyhā kəp̄îr hāyāh wa-yilmaḏ liṭrāp̄-ṭerep̄ ʾāḏām ʾāḵāl

Grammar Details

*wa-*: conjunction + consecutive - and
*taʿal*: 3rd person feminine singular, imperfect, hiphil - she brought up
*ʾeḥāḏ*: masculine singular numeral - one
*miggûreyhā*: preposition + masculine plural noun + 3rd person feminine singular suffix - from her cubs
*kəp̄îr*: masculine singular noun - young lion
*hāyāh*: 3rd person masculine singular, perfect, qal - he became
*yilmaḏ*: 3rd person masculine singular, imperfect, qal - he learned
*liṭrāp̄*: preposition + infinitive construct, qal - to tear/rend
*ṭerep̄*: masculine singular noun - prey/torn flesh
*ʾāḏām*: masculine singular noun - man/men
*ʾāḵāl*: 3rd person masculine singular, perfect, qal - he devoured

Word Meanings

*taʿal*: brought up/raised/promoted
*kəp̄îr*: young lion/lion cub
*liṭrāp̄*: to tear/to hunt/to rend
*ṭerep̄*: prey/food/torn flesh
*ʾāḏām*: man/mankind/humans

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American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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Referenced Verses

2 Kgs 23:31-32 : 31 Jehoahaz was twenty and three years old when he began to reign; and he reigned three months in Jerusalem: and his mother's name was Hamutal the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah. 32 And he did that which was evil in the sight of Jehovah, according to all that his fathers had done.
2 Chr 36:1-2 : 1 Then the people of the land took Jehoahaz the son of Josiah, and made him king in his father's stead in Jerusalem. 2 Joahaz was twenty and three years old when he began to reign; and he reigned three months in Jerusalem.
Ezek 19:6 : 6 And he went up and down among the lions; he became a young lion, and he learned to catch the prey; he devoured men.
Ezek 22:25 : 25 There is a conspiracy of her prophets in the midst thereof, like a roaring lion ravening the prey: they have devoured souls; they take treasure and precious things; they have made her widows many in the midst thereof.

Similar Verses (AI)

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Ezek 19:4-7
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4The nations also heard of him; he was taken in their pit; and they brought him with hooks 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 he learned to catch the prey; he devoured men.
7And he knew their palaces, and laid waste their cities; and the land was desolate, and the fulness thereof, because of the noise of his roaring.
Ezek 19:2
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11Where is the den of the lions, and the feeding-place of the young lions, where the lion [and] the lioness walked, the lion's whelp, and none made them afraid?
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Job 39:29-30
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Job 4:10-11
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Ps 17:12
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Isa 5:29
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Job 38:39
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Jer 5:6
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Amos 3:4
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Jer 25:38
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Mic 5:8
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Jer 49:19
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