Ezekiel 27:31

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

And they shall make themselves utterly bald for thee, and gird them with sackcloth, and they shall weep for thee with bitterness of heart and bitter wailing.

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 bewail with the weeping of Jazer the vine of Sibmah: I will water thee with my tears, O Heshbon, and Elealeh: for the shouting for thy summer fruits and for thy harvest is fallen.
Isa 22:12 : 12 And in that day did the Lord GOD 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 He is gone up to Bajith, and to Dibon, the high places, to weep: Moab shall howl over Nebo, and over Medeba: on all their heads shall be baldness, and every beard cut off.
Isa 22:4 : 4 Therefore said I, Look away from me; I will weep bitterly, labour not to comfort me, because of the spoiling 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 the LORD your God: ye shall not cut yourselves, nor make any baldness between your eyes for the dead.
Jer 16:6 : 6 Both the great and the 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 cut off with the remnant of their valley: how long wilt thou cut thyself?
Jer 48:37 : 37 For every head shall be bald, and every beard clipped: upon all the hands shall be 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 up sackcloth upon all loins, and baldness upon every head; and I will make it as the mourning of an only son, and the end thereof as a bitter day.
Mic 1:8 : 8 Therefore I will wail and howl, I will go stripped and naked: I will make a wailing like the dragons, and mourning as the owls.
Mic 1:16 : 16 Make thee bald, and poll thee for thy delicate children; enlarge thy baldness as the eagle; for they are gone into captivity from thee.

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