Ezekiel 19:2New American Standard Bible (NASB ©1995) [2]
— and say, ‘What was your mother? A lioness among lions! She lay down among young lions, She reared her cubs.
King James Version (KJV 1769) [2]
— And say, What [is] thy mother? A lioness: she lay down among lions, she nourished her whelps among young lions.
English Revised Version (ERV 1885)
— and say, What was thy mother? A lioness: she couched among lions, in the midst of the young lions she nourished her whelps.
American Standard Version (ASV 1901) [2]
— and say, What was thy mother? A lioness: she couched among lions, in the midst of the young lions she nourished her whelps.
Webster's Revision of the KJB (WEB 1833)
— And say, What [is] thy mother: A lioness: she lay down among lions, she nourished her whelps among young lions.
Darby's Translation (DBY 1890)
— and say, What was thy mother? A lioness: she lay down among lions, she nourished her whelps in the midst of the young lions.
Rotherham's Emphasized Bible (EBR 1902)
— and thou shalt say—How was, thy mother, a lioness! Between lions, she lay down,—In the midst of young lions, She nourished her whelps;
Young's Literal Translation (YLT 1898)
— and thou hast said: What [is] thy mother?—a lioness, Among lions she hath crouched down, In the midst of young lions she hath multiplied her whelps.
Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision (DR 1750)
— And say: Why did thy mother the lioness lie down among the lions, and bring up her whelps in the midst of young lions?
Geneva Bible (GNV 1560)
— And say, Wherefore lay thy mother as a lyonesse among the lyons? she nourished her yong ones among the lyons whelps,
Original King James Bible (AV 1611) [2]
— And say, What [is] thy mother? a lyonesse: shee lay downe among lions, she nourished her whelpes among yong lions.
Lamsa Bible (1957)
— And say, What is your mother? O whelp of lions! she crouched among lions, she reared her whelps among young lions.
Brenton Greek Septuagint (LXX, Restored Names)
— and say, Why is thy mother become a whelp in the midst of lions? in the midst of lions she has multiplied her whelps.
Full Hebrew Names / Holy Name KJV (2008) [2] [3]
— And say, What [is] thy mother? A lioness: she lay down among lions, she nourished her whelps among young lions. |
And say,
559 {0559} Primeאָמַר'amar{aw-mar'}
A primitive root; to say (used with great latitude).
z8804 <8804> Grammar
Stem - Qal (See H8851) Mood - Perfect (See H8816) Count - 12562
What
x4100 (4100) Complementמָּהmah{maw}
A primitive particle; properly interrogitive what? (including how?, why? and when?); but also exclamations like what! (including how!), or indefinitely what (including whatever, and even relatively that which); often used with prefixes in various adverbial or conjugational senses.
[ is] thy mother?
517 {0517} Primeאֵם'em{ame}
A primitive word; a mother (as the bond of the family); in a wide sense (both literally and figuratively); (like H0001).
A lioness:
3833 {3833} Primeלָבִיאlabiy'{law-bee'}
From an unused root meaning to roar; a lion (properly a lioness as the fiercer (although not a roarer; compare H0738)).
she lay down
7257 {7257} Primeרָבַץrabats{raw-bats'}
A primitive root; to crouch (on all four legs folded, like a recumbent animal); by implication to recline, repose, brood, lurk, imbed.
z8804 <8804> Grammar
Stem - Qal (See H8851) Mood - Perfect (See H8816) Count - 12562
among
x996 (0996) Complementבַּיִןbeyn{bane}
(Sometimes in the plural masculine or feminine); properly the constructively contracted form of an otherwise unused noun from H0995; a distinction; but used only as a preposition, between (repeated before each noun, often with other particles); also as a conjugation, either... or.
lions,
738 {0738} Primeאַרִי'ariy{ar-ee'}
From H0717 (in the sense of violence); a lion.
she nourished
7235 {7235} Primeרָבָהrabah{raw-baw'}
A primitive root; to increase (in whatever respect).
z8765 <8765> Grammar
Stem - Piel (See H8840) Mood - Perfect (See H8816) Count - 2121
her whelps
1482 {1482} Primeגּוּרguwr{goor}
Perhaps from H1481; a cub (as still abiding in the lair), especially of the lion.
among
8432 {8432} Primeתָּוֶךְtavek{taw'-vek}
From an unused root meaning to sever; a bisection, that is, (by implication) the centre.
young lions.
3715 {3715} Primeכְּפִירk@phiyr{kef-eer'}
From H3722; a village (as covered in by walls); also a young lion (perhaps as covered with a mane). |
Ezekiel 19:2
_ _ thy mother — the mother of Jehoiachin, the representative of David’s line in exile with Ezekiel. The “mother” is Judea: “a lioness,” as being fierce in catching prey (Ezekiel 19:3), referring to her heathenish practices. Jerusalem was called Ariel (the lion of God) in a good sense (Isaiah 29:1); and Judah “a lion’s whelp ... a lion ... an old lion” (Genesis 49:9), to which, as also to Numbers 23:24; Numbers 24:9, this passage alludes.
_ _ nourished ... among young lions — She herself had “lain” among lions, that is, had intercourse with the corruptions of the surrounding heathen and had brought up the royal young ones similarly: utterly degenerate from the stock of Abraham.
_ _ Lay down — or “couched,” is appropriate to the lion, the Arab name of which means “the coucher.” |
Ezekiel 19:2
What — What resemblance shall I use to set out the nature, deportment, and state of the mother of these princes? Thy — One of whom was upon the throne at once, and therefore the prophet speaks to one at a time. Mother — The land of Judea, and Jerusalem, the chief city of it, the royal family of David. Lioness — Tho' chosen of God to execute justice; yet they soon degenerated into the fierce and ravening nature of the lioness. Lay down — Associated, and grew familiar with neighbour kings, called here lions; fierce and bloody. Her whelps — Her sons, successors to the crown. Young lions — Either foreign princes and kings, or some of the fierce, unjust, tyrannizing princes at home. |
Ezekiel 19:2
And say, What [is] thy (b) mother? A lioness: she lay down among lions, she nourished her whelps among young lions.
(b) That is Jehoahaz's mother, or Jerusalem. |
- A lioness:
- Judea, which possessed strength, courage, and sovereignty.
Nahum 2:11-12 Where [is] the dwelling of the lions, and the feedingplace of the young lions, where the lion, [even] the old lion, walked, [and] the lion's whelp, and none made [them] afraid? ... The lion did tear in pieces enough for his whelps, and strangled for his lionesses, and filled his holes with prey, and his dens with ravin.
Zephaniah 3:1-4 Woe to her that is filthy and polluted, to the oppressing city! ... Her prophets [are] light [and] treacherous persons: her priests have polluted the sanctuary, they have done violence to the law.
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- she lay:
- Had confederacy with the neighbouring kings, and learned their manners.
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- her whelps:
- The sons of Josiah, who learned to be oppressive tyrants from the surrounding princes.
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- young lions:
Job 4:11 The old lion perisheth for lack of prey, and the stout lion's whelps are scattered abroad.
Psalms 58:6 Break their teeth, O God, in their mouth: break out the great teeth of the young lions, O LORD.
Isaiah 5:29 Their roaring [shall be] like a lion, they shall roar like young lions: yea, they shall roar, and lay hold of the prey, and shall carry [it] away safe, and none shall deliver [it].
Isaiah 11:6-9 The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them. ... They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain: for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the LORD, as the waters cover the sea.
Zechariah 11:3 [There is] a voice of the howling of the shepherds; for their glory is spoiled: a voice of the roaring of young lions; for the pride of Jordan is spoiled.
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