Ezekiel 27:31

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

and they shall make themselves bald for thee, and gird them with sackcloth, and they shall weep for thee in bitterness of soul with bitter mourning.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וְהִקְרִ֤יחוּ אֵלַ֙יִךְ֙ קָרְחָ֔ה וְחָגְר֖וּ שַׂקִּ֑ים וּבָכ֥וּ אֵלַ֛יִךְ בְּמַר־נֶ֖פֶשׁ מִסְפֵּ֥ד מָֽר׃

Transliteration

And-hiqrîḥû to-you [feminine] qorḥāh, and-ḥāgərû śaqqîm, and-bākû to-you [feminine] with-mar-nepeš mispēd mār

Grammar Details

*hiqrîḥû*: hiphil perfect, 3rd plural - they will make bald
*qorḥāh*: feminine singular - baldness
*ḥāgərû*: qal perfect, 3rd plural - they will gird
*śaqqîm*: masculine plural - sackcloth
*bākû*: qal perfect, 3rd plural - they will weep
*mar*: masculine singular - bitterness
*nepeš*: feminine singular - soul
*mispēd*: masculine singular - mourning/lamentation
*mār*: masculine singular - bitter

Word Meanings

*hiqrîḥû qorḥāh*: they will make baldness/shave their heads
*ḥāgərû śaqqîm*: they will gird sackcloth/wrap themselves in sackcloth
*mar-nepeš*: bitterness of soul/bitter soul/inner grief
*mispēd mār*: bitter lamentation/bitter mourning

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Referenced Verses

Isa 16:9 : 9 Therefore I will weep with the weeping of Jazer for the vine of Sibmah; I will water thee with my tears, O Heshbon, and Elealeh: for upon thy summer fruits and upon thy harvest the [battle] shout is fallen.
Isa 22:12 : 12 And in that day did the Lord, Jehovah of hosts, call to weeping, and to mourning, and to baldness, and to girding with sackcloth:
Ezek 7:18 : 18 They shall also gird themselves with sackcloth, and horror shall cover them; and shame shall be upon all faces, and baldness upon all their heads.
Isa 15:2 : 2 They are gone up to Bayith, and to Dibon, to the high places, to weep: Moab waileth over Nebo, and over Medeba; on all their heads is baldness, every beard is cut off.
Isa 22:4 : 4 Therefore said I, Look away from me, I will weep bitterly; labor not to comfort me for the destruction of the daughter of my people.
Lev 21:5 : 5 They shall not make baldness upon their head, neither shall they shave off the corner of their beard, nor make any cuttings in their flesh.
Deut 14:1 : 1 Ye are the children of Jehovah your God: ye shall not cut yourselves, nor make any baldness between your eyes for the dead.
Jer 16:6 : 6 Both great and small shall die in this land; they shall not be buried, neither shall men lament for them, nor cut themselves, nor make themselves bald for them;
Jer 47:5 : 5 Baldness is come upon Gaza; Ashkelon is brought to nought, the remnant of their valley: how long wilt thou cut thyself?
Jer 48:37 : 37 For every head is bald, and every beard clipped: upon all the hands are cuttings, and upon the loins sackcloth.
Amos 8:10 : 10 And I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation; and I will bring sackcloth upon all loins, and baldness upon every head; and I will make it as the mourning for an only son, and the end thereof as a bitter day.
Mic 1:8 : 8 For this will I lament and wail; I will go stripped and naked; I will make a wailing like the jackals, and a lamentation like the ostriches.
Mic 1:16 : 16 Make thee bald, and cut off thy hair for the children of thy delight: enlarge thy baldness as the eagle; for they are gone into captivity from thee.

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