Ezekiel 28:16

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

By the abundance of your traffic they filled the midst of you with violence, and you have sinned: therefore have I cast you as profane out of the mountain of God; and I have destroyed you, O covering cherub, from the midst of the stones of fire.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

בְּרֹ֣ב רְכֻּלָּתְךָ֗ מָל֧וּ תוֹכְךָ֛ חָמָ֖ס וַֽתֶּחֱטָ֑א וָאֶחַלֶּלְךָ֩ מֵהַ֨ר אֱלֹהִ֤ים וָֽאַבֶּדְךָ֙ כְּר֣וּב הַסֹּכֵ֔ךְ מִתּ֖וֹךְ אַבְנֵי־אֵֽשׁ׃

Transliteration

bə-rōḇ rəḵullātəḵā mālû tôḵəḵā ḥāmās wa-tteḥĕṭāʾ wā-ʾăḥalelḵā mē-har ʾĕlōhîm wā-ʾăʾabbedḵā kərûḇ ha-ssōḵēḵ mi-ttôḵ ʾaḇnê-ʾēš

Grammar Details

• *bə-rōḇ*: preposition + noun masculine singular construct - by abundance of
• *rəḵullātəḵā*: noun feminine singular + 2nd masculine singular suffix - your merchandise/trading
• *mālû*: qal perfect 3rd common plural - they filled
• *tôḵəḵā*: noun masculine singular + 2nd masculine singular suffix - your midst
• *ḥāmās*: noun masculine singular - violence
• *wa-tteḥĕṭāʾ*: conjunction + qal imperfect 2nd masculine singular - and you sinned
• *wā-ʾăḥalelḵā*: conjunction + piel imperfect 1st person singular + 2nd masculine singular suffix - and I profaned you
• *mē-har*: preposition + noun masculine singular construct - from the mountain of
• *ʾĕlōhîm*: noun masculine plural - God
• *wā-ʾăʾabbedḵā*: conjunction + piel imperfect 1st person singular + 2nd masculine singular suffix - and I destroyed you
• *kərûḇ*: noun masculine singular - cherub
• *ha-ssōḵēḵ*: definite article + qal participle masculine singular - the covering/guardian
• *mi-ttôḵ*: preposition + noun masculine singular construct - from the midst of
• *ʾaḇnê*-*ʾēš*: noun feminine plural construct + noun feminine singular - stones of fire

Word Meanings

• *rōḇ*: abundance/greatness/multitude
• *rəḵullāh*: merchandise/traffic/trading
• *ḥāmās*: violence/wrong/cruelty
• *ʾăḥalelḵā*: I profaned/defiled/treated as common
• *ʾăʾabbedḵā*: I destroyed/caused to perish/banished

Referenced Verses

• Hab 2:17 : 17 For the violence done to Lebanon shall cover thee, and the destruction of the beasts, which made them afraid; because of men's blood, and for the violence done to the land, to the city and to all that dwell therein.
• Gen 3:24 : 24 So he drove out the man; and he placed at the east of the garden of Eden the Cherubim, and the flame of a sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life.
• Ezek 8:17 : 17 Then he said unto me, Hast thou seen [this], O son of man? Is it a light thing to the house of Judah that they commit the abominations which they commit here? for they have filled the land with violence, and have turned again to provoke me to anger: and, lo, they put the branch to their nose.
• Hab 2:8 : 8 Because thou hast plundered many nations, all the remnant of the peoples shall plunder thee, because of men's blood, and for the violence done to the land, to the city and to all that dwell therein.
• Ezek 27:12-36 : 12 Tarshish was thy merchant by reason of the multitude of all kinds of riches; with silver, iron, tin, and lead, they traded for thy wares. 13 Javan, Tubal, and Meshech, they were thy traffickers; they traded the persons of men and vessels of brass for thy merchandise. 14 They of the house of Togarmah traded for thy wares with horses and war-horses and mules. 15 The men of Dedan were thy traffickers; many isles were the mart of thy hand: they brought thee in exchange horns of ivory and ebony. 16 Syria was thy merchant by reason of the multitude of thy handiworks: they traded for thy wares with emeralds, purple, and broidered work, and fine linen, and coral, and rubies. 17 Judah, and the land of Israel, they were thy traffickers: they traded for thy merchandise wheat of Minnith, and pannag, and honey, and oil, and balm. 18 Damascus was thy merchant for the multitude of thy handiworks, by reason of the multitude of all kinds of riches, with the wine of Helbon, and white wool. 19 Vedan and Javan traded with yarn for thy wares: bright iron, cassia, and calamus, were among thy merchandise. 20 Dedan was thy trafficker in precious cloths for riding. 21 Arabia, and all the princes of Kedar, they were the merchants of thy hand; in lambs, and rams, and goats, in these were they thy merchants. 22 The traffickers of Sheba and Raamah, they were thy traffickers; they traded for thy wares with the chief of all spices, and with all precious stones, and gold. 23 Haran and Canneh and Eden, the traffickers of Sheba, Asshur [and] Chilmad, were thy traffickers. 24 These were thy traffickers in choice wares, in wrappings of blue and broidered work, and in chests of rich apparel, bound with cords and made of cedar, among thy merchandise. 25 The ships of Tarshish were thy caravans for thy merchandise: and thou wast replenished, and made very glorious in the heart of the seas. 26 Thy rowers have brought thee into great waters: the east wind hath broken thee in the heart of the seas. 27 Thy riches, and thy wares, thy merchandise, thy mariners, and thy pilots, thy calkers, and the dealers in thy merchandise, and all thy men of war, that are in thee, with all thy company which is in the midst of thee, shall fall into the heart of the seas in the day of thy ruin. 28 At the sound of the cry of thy pilots the suburbs shall shake. 29 And all that handled the oar, the mariners, [and] all the pilots of the sea, shall come down from their ships; they shall stand upon the land, 30 and shall cause their voice to be heard over thee, and shall cry bitterly, and shall cast up dust upon their heads, they shall wallow themselves in the ashes: 31 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. 32 And in their wailing they shall take up a lamentation for thee, and lament over thee, [saying], Who is there like Tyre, like her that is brought to silence in the midst of the sea? 33 When thy wares went forth out of the seas, thou filledst many peoples; thou didst enrich the kings of the earth with the multitude of thy riches and of thy merchandise. 34 In the time that thou wast broken by the seas in the depths of the waters, thy merchandise and all thy company did fall in the midst of thee. 35 All the inhabitants of the isles are astonished at thee, and their kings are horribly afraid; they are troubled in their countenance. 36 The merchants among the peoples hiss at thee; thou art become a terror, and thou shalt nevermore have any being.
• Ezek 28:14 : 14 You were the anointed cherub that covers: and I set you, [so that] you were upon the holy mountain of God; you have walked up and down in the midst of the stones of fire.
• Hos 12:7 : 7 [He is] a trafficker, the balances of deceit are in his hand: he loveth to oppress.
• Amos 3:9 : 9 Publish ye in the palaces at Ashdod, and in the palaces in the land of Egypt, and say, Assemble yourselves upon the mountains of Samaria, and behold what great tumults are therein, and what oppressions in the midst thereof.
• Mic 2:2 : 2 And they covet fields, and seize them; and houses, and take them away: and they oppress a man and his house, even a man and his heritage.
• Mic 2:10 : 10 Arise ye, and depart; for this is not your resting-place; because of uncleanness that destroyeth, even with a grievous destruction.
• Mic 6:12 : 12 For the rich men thereof are full of violence, and the inhabitants thereof have spoken lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their mouth.
• Gen 6:11 : 11 And the earth was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.
• Lev 18:24-28 : 24 Defile not ye yourselves in any of these things: for in all these the nations are defiled which I cast out from before you; 25 And the land is defiled: therefore I do visit the iniquity thereof upon it, and the land vomiteth out her inhabitants. 26 Ye therefore shall keep my statutes and mine ordinances, and shall not do any of these abominations; neither the home-born, nor the stranger that sojourneth among you; 27 (for all these abominations have the men of the land done, that were before you, and the land is defiled); 28 that the land vomit not you out also, when ye defile it, as it vomited out the nation that was before you.
• Isa 22:19 : 19 And I will thrust thee from thine office; and from thy station shalt thou be pulled down.
• Isa 23:9 : 9 Jehovah of hosts hath purposed it, to stain the pride of all glory, to bring into contempt all the honorable of the earth.
• Isa 23:17-18 : 17 And it shall come to pass after the end of seventy years, that Jehovah will visit Tyre, and she shall return to her hire, and shall play the harlot with all the kingdoms of the world upon the face of the earth. 18 And her merchandise and her hire shall be holiness to Jehovah: it shall not be treasured nor laid up; for her merchandise shall be for them that dwell before Jehovah, to eat sufficiently, and for durable clothing.
• Zeph 1:9 : 9 And in that day I will punish all those that leap over the threshold, that fill their master's house with violence and deceit.
• Luke 19:45-46 : 45 And he entered into the temple, and began to cast out them that {G846} {G59} {G2532} sold, 46 saying unto them, It is written, And my house shall be a house of prayer: but ye have made it a den of robbers.
• John 2:16 : 16 and to them that sold the doves he said, Take these things hence; make not my Father's house a house of merchandise.
• 1 Tim 6:9-9 : 9 But they that are minded to be rich fall into a temptation and a snare and many foolish and hurtful lusts, such as drown men in destruction and perdition. 10 For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil: which {G3713} some reaching after have been led astray from the faith, and have pierced themselves through with many sorrows.
• 2 Pet 2:4-6 : 4 For if God spared not angels when they sinned, but cast them down to hell, and committed them to pits of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment; 5 and spared not the ancient world, but preserved Noah with seven others, a preacher of righteousness, when he brought a flood upon the world of the ungodly; 6 and turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes condemned them with an overthrow, having made them an example unto those that should live ungodly;
• Rev 12:9 : 9 And the great dragon was cast down, the old serpent, he that is called the Devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world; he was cast down to the earth, and his angels were cast down with him.