Ezekiel 32:18

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

Son of man, wail for the multitude of Egypt, and cast them down, even her, and the daughters of the famous nations, unto the nether parts of the earth, with them that go down into the pit.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

בֶּן־אָדָ֕ם נְהֵ֛ה עַל־הֲמ֥וֹן מִצְרַ֖יִם וְהוֹרִדֵ֑הוּ א֠וֹתָהּ וּבְנ֨וֹת גּוֹיִ֧ם אַדִּרִ֛ם אֶל־אֶ֥רֶץ תַּחְתִּיּ֖וֹת אֶת־י֥וֹרְדֵי בֽוֹר׃

Transliteration

Ben-'ādām nĕhēh upon-hămôn miṣrayim and hôrîdēhû her and bĕnôt gôyim 'addîrim unto-'ereṣ taḥtiyyôt 'et-yôrĕdêy bôr.

Grammar Details

• *ben-'ādām*: construct chain - son of man/human
• *nĕhēh*: qal imperative ms - wail/lament
• *hămôn*: masculine singular noun - multitude of
• *miṣrayim*: proper noun - Egypt
• *hôrîdēhû*: hiphil imperative ms with 3ms suffix - bring it down
• *bĕnôt*: feminine plural noun - daughters of
• *gôyim*: masculine plural noun - nations
• *'addîrim*: masculine plural adjective - mighty/majestic
• *'ereṣ*: feminine singular noun - land of
• *taḥtiyyôt*: feminine plural noun - depths/lower parts
• *'et*: preposition - with
• *yôrĕdêy*: qal participle masculine plural - those going down to
• *bôr*: masculine singular noun - pit

Word Meanings

• *nĕhēh*: wail/lament/make a mournful sound
• *hôrîdēhû*: bring it down/cause it to descend
• *'addîrim*: mighty/majestic/glorious
• *taḥtiyyôt*: lowest parts/depths/netherworld
• *bôr*: pit/grave/cistern

Referenced Verses

• Ezek 31:14 : 14 To 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.
• Jer 1:10 : 10 See, I have this day set thee over the nations and over the kingdoms, to root out, and to pull down, and to destroy, and to throw down, to build, and to plant.
• Ezek 32:2 : 2 Son of man, take up a lamentation for Pharaoh king of Egypt, and say unto him, Thou art like a young lion of the nations, and thou art as a whale in the seas: and thou camest forth with thy rivers, and troubledst the waters with thy feet, and fouledst their rivers.
• Ezek 32:16 : 16 This is the lamentation wherewith they shall lament her: the daughters of the nations shall lament her: they shall lament for her, even for Egypt, and for all her multitude, saith the Lord GOD.
• 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.
• Ezek 43:3 : 3 And it was according to the appearance of the vision which I saw, even according to the vision that I saw when I came to destroy the city: and the visions were like the vision that I saw by the river Chebar; and I fell upon my face.
• Hos 6:5 : 5 Therefore have I hewed them by the prophets; I have slain them by the words of my mouth: and thy judgments are as the light that goeth forth.
• Ezek 31:16 : 16 I 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.
• 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.
• Ezek 26:20 : 20 When I shall bring thee down with them that descend into the pit, with the people of old time, and shall set thee in the low parts of the earth, in places desolate of old, with them that go down to the pit, that thou be not inhabited; and I shall set glory in the land of the living;
• Ezek 21:6-7 : 6 Sigh therefore, thou son of man, with the breaking of thy loins; and with bitterness sigh before their eyes. 7 And it shall be, when they say unto thee, Wherefore sighest thou? that thou shalt answer, For the tidings; because it cometh: and every heart shall melt, and all hands shall be feeble, and every spirit shall faint, and all knees shall be weak as water: behold, it cometh, and shall be brought to pass, saith the Lord GOD.
• Ps 30:9 : 9 What profit is there in my blood, when I go down to the pit? Shall the dust praise thee? shall it declare thy truth?
• Ps 63:9 : 9 But those that seek{H8762)} my soul, to destroy it, shall go{H8799)} into the lower parts of the earth.
• Isa 14:15 : 15 Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit.
• Luke 19:41 : 41 And when he was come near, he beheld the city, and wept over it,
• Rom 12:15 : 15 Rejoice with them that do rejoice, and weep with them that weep.
• Ezek 32:21 : 21 The strong among the mighty shall speak to him out of the midst of hell with them that help him: they are gone down, they lie uncircumcised, slain by the sword.
• Ezek 32:24-32 : 24 There is Elam and all her multitude round about her grave, all of them slain, fallen by the sword, which are gone down uncircumcised into the nether parts of the earth, which caused their terror in the land of the living; yet have they borne their shame with them that go down to the pit. 25 They have set her a bed in the midst of the slain with all her multitude: her graves are round about him: all of them uncircumcised, slain by the sword: though their terror was caused in the land of the living, yet have they borne their shame with them that go down to the pit: he is put in the midst of them that be slain. 26 There is Meshech, Tubal, and all her multitude: her graves are round about him: all of them uncircumcised, slain by the sword, though they caused their terror in the land of the living. 27 And they shall not lie with the mighty that are fallen of the uncircumcised, which are gone down to hell with their weapons of war: and they have laid their swords under their heads, but their iniquities shall be upon their bones, though they were the terror of the mighty in the land of the living. 28 Yea, thou shalt be broken in the midst of the uncircumcised, and shalt lie with them that are slain with the sword. 29 There is Edom, her kings, and all her princes, which with their might are laid by them that were slain by the sword: they shall lie with the uncircumcised, and with them that go down to the pit. 30 There be the princes of the north, all of them, and all the Zidonians, which are gone down with the slain; with their terror they are ashamed of their might; and they lie uncircumcised with them that be slain by the sword, and bear their shame with them that go down to the pit. 31 Pharaoh shall see them, and shall be comforted over all his multitude, even Pharaoh and all his army slain by the sword, saith the Lord GOD. 32 For I have caused my terror in the land of the living: and he shall be laid in the midst of the uncircumcised with them that are slain with the sword, even Pharaoh and all his multitude, saith the Lord GOD.