Ezekiel 32:19

KJV1611 – Modern English

Whom do you surpass in beauty? go down, and be laid with the uncircumcised.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

מִמִּ֖י נָעָ֑מְתָּ רְדָ֥ה וְהָשְׁכְּבָ֖ה אֶת־עֲרֵלִֽים׃

Transliteration

From whom nā'āmtā rĕdâh and hāshkĕbâh 'et-'ărēlîm.

Grammar Details

• *nā'āmtā*: qal perfect 2ms - you were pleasant
• *rĕdâh*: qal imperative ms - go down
• *hāshkĕbâh*: hophal imperative ms - be laid down
• *'et*: preposition - with
• *'ărēlîm*: masculine plural noun - uncircumcised ones

Word Meanings

• *nā'āmtā*: you were pleasant/you were lovely/whom do you surpass in beauty
• *rĕdâh*: go down/descend
• *hāshkĕbâh*: be laid down/be laid to rest
• *'ărēlîm*: uncircumcised ones/uncircumcised

Other Translations

• Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

  Who do you surpass in beauty? Go down and be laid to rest with the uncircumcised.

• King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

  Whom dost thou pass in beauty? go down, and be thou laid with the uncircumcised.

• American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

  Whom dost thou pass in beauty?{H5276} go down,{H3381} and be thou laid{H7901} with the uncircumcised.{H6189}

• King James Version with Strong's Numbers

  Whom dost thou pass in beauty{H5276}{(H8804)}? go down{H3381}{(H8798)}, and be thou laid{H7901}{(H8713)} with the uncircumcised{H6189}.

• Coverdale Bible (1535)

  Downe (how fayre so euer thou be) and laye the with the vncircircumcised.

• Geneva Bible (1560)

  Whome doest thou passe in beautie? goe downe and sleepe with the vncircumcised.

• Bishops' Bible (1568)

  Whom doest thou passe in beautie? go downe and sleepe with the vncircumcized.

• Authorized King James Version (1611)

  Whom dost thou pass in beauty? go down, and be thou laid with the uncircumcised.

• Webster's Bible (1833)

  Whom do you pass in beauty? Go down, and be laid with the uncircumcised.

• Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

  Than whom hast thou been more pleasant? Go down, and be laid with the uncircumcised.

• American Standard Version (1901)

  Whom dost thou pass in beauty? go down, and be thou laid with the uncircumcised.

• American Standard Version (1901)

  Whom dost thou pass in beauty? go down, and be thou laid with the uncircumcised.

• Bible in Basic English (1941)

  Are you more beautiful than any? go down, and take your rest among those without circumcision,

• World English Bible (2000)

  Whom do you pass in beauty? Go down, and be laid with the uncircumcised.

• NET Bible® (New English Translation)

  Say to them,‘Whom do you surpass in beauty? Go down and be laid to rest with the uncircumcised!’

Referenced Verses

• Ezek 31:18 : 18 Who are you thus like in glory and in greatness among the trees of Eden? Yet you shall be brought down with the trees of Eden to the lower parts of the earth; you shall lie in the midst of the uncircumcised with those who are slain by the sword. This is Pharaoh and all his multitude, says the Lord GOD.
• Ezek 32:29-30 : 29 There is Edom, her kings, and all her princes, who in their might are laid by those who were slain by the sword: they shall lie with the uncircumcised, and with those who go down to the pit. 30 There are the princes of the north, all of them, and all the Zidonians, who have gone down with the slain; with their terror they are ashamed of their might; and they lie uncircumcised with those who are slain by the sword, and bear their shame with those who go down to the pit.
• Ezek 31:2 : 2 Son of man, speak to Pharaoh king of Egypt, and to his multitude; Who are you like in your greatness?
• Ezek 32:21 : 21 The strong among the mighty shall speak to him out of the midst of hell with those who help him: they have gone down, they lie uncircumcised, slain by the sword.
• Ezek 32:24 : 24 There is Elam and all her multitude around her grave, all of them slain, fallen by the sword, who have gone down uncircumcised to the lower parts of the earth, who caused their terror in the land of the living; yet they have borne their shame with those who go down to the pit.
• Ezek 28:10 : 10 You shall die the deaths of the uncircumcised by the hand of strangers: for I have spoken it, says the Lord GOD.
• Jer 9:25-26 : 25 Behold, the days come, says the LORD, that I will punish all those who are circumcised with the uncircumcised; 26 Egypt, and Judah, and Edom, and the children of Ammon, and Moab, and all who are in the farthest corners, who dwell in the wilderness: for all these nations are uncircumcised, and all the house of Israel are uncircumcised in the heart.
• Ezek 27:3-4 : 3 And say to Tyre, O you who are situated at the entry of the sea, a merchant of the peoples for many islands, Thus says the Lord GOD; O Tyre, you have said, I am of perfect beauty. 4 Your borders are in the midst of the seas, your builders have perfected your beauty.
• 1 Sam 17:26 : 26 David spoke to the men standing by him, asking, What shall be done for the man who kills this Philistine and takes away the reproach from Israel? For who is this uncircumcised Philistine that he should defy the armies of the living God?
• 1 Sam 17:36 : 36 Your servant has killed both the lion and the bear, and this uncircumcised Philistine will be like one of them, because he has defied the armies of the living God.
• Isa 14:9-9 : 9 Hell from beneath is moved for you to meet you at your coming: it stirs up the dead for you, even all the chief ones of the earth; it has raised up from their thrones all the kings of the nations. 10 All they will speak and say to you, Have you also become weak as we? Have you become like us? 11 Your pomp is brought down to the grave, and the noise of your viols: the worm is spread under you, and the worms cover you. 12 How are you fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! How are you cut down to the ground, who did weaken the nations! 13 For you have said in your heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will also sit upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north: 14 I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the Most High. 15 Yet you will be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit.
• Ezek 28:12-17 : 12 Son of man, take up a lamentation upon the king of Tyre, and say to him, Thus says the Lord GOD; You seal up the sum, full of wisdom, and perfect in beauty. 13 You have been in Eden, the garden of God; every precious stone was your covering, the sardius, topaz, and diamond, the beryl, the onyx, and the jasper, the sapphire, the emerald, and the carbuncle, and gold: the workmanship of your tambourines and of your pipes was prepared in you in the day that you were created. 14 You are the anointed cherub who covers; and I have set you so: you were upon the holy mountain of God; you have walked up and down in the midst of the stones of fire. 15 You were perfect in your ways from the day that you were created, until iniquity was found in you. 16 By the abundance of your trading they have filled your midst with violence, and you have sinned: therefore I will cast you as profane out of the mountain of God: and I will destroy you, O covering cherub, from the midst of the stones of fire. 17 Your heart was lifted up because of your beauty, you have corrupted your wisdom by reason of your brightness: I will cast you to the ground, I will lay you before kings, that they may behold you.