Ezekiel 27:8New American Standard Bible (NASB ©1995) [2]
— “The inhabitants of Sidon and Arvad were your rowers; Your wise men, O Tyre, were aboard; they were your pilots.
King James Version (KJV 1769) [2]
— The inhabitants of Zidon and Arvad were thy mariners: thy wise [men], O Tyrus, [that] were in thee, were thy pilots.
English Revised Version (ERV 1885)
— The inhabitants of Zidon and Arvad were thy rowers: thy wise men, O Tyre, were in thee, they were thy pilots.
American Standard Version (ASV 1901) [2]
— The inhabitants of Sidon and Arvad were thy rowers: thy wise men, O Tyre, were in thee, they were thy pilots.
Webster's Revision of the KJB (WEB 1833)
— The inhabitants of Zidon and Arvad were thy mariners: thy wise [men], O Tyre, [that] were in thee, were thy pilots.
Darby's Translation (DBY 1890)
— The inhabitants of Zidon and Arvad were thy rowers; thy wise men, O Tyre, who were in thee, were thy pilots.
Rotherham's Emphasized Bible (EBR 1902)
— the inhabitants of Zidon and Arvad, Became rowers for thee,—Thine own skilled men, O Tyre, were within thee, They, were thy sailors:
Young's Literal Translation (YLT 1898)
— Inhabitants of Zidon and Arvad have been rowers to thee, Thy wise men, O Tyre, have been in thee, They [are] thy pilots.
Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision (DR 1750)
— The inhabitants of Sidon, and the Arabians were thy rowers: thy wise men, O Tyre, were thy pilots.
Geneva Bible (GNV 1560)
— The inhabitants of Zidon, and Aruad were thy mariners, O Tyrus: thy wise men that were in thee, they were thy pilots.
Original King James Bible (AV 1611) [2]
— The inhabitants of Zidon and Aruad were thy mariners: thy wise men, O Tyrus, [that] were in thee, were thy pilots.
Lamsa Bible (1957)
— The inhabitants of Zidon and Arwad were your mariners; your wise men, O Tyre, were your pilots.
Brenton Greek Septuagint (LXX, Restored Names)
— And thy princes were the dwellers in Zidon{gr.Sidon}, and the Aradians were thy rowers: thy wise men, O Tyrus{gr.Sor}, who were in thee, these were thy pilots.
Full Hebrew Names / Holy Name KJV (2008) [2] [3]
— The inhabitants of Tzidon and Arwad were thy mariners: thy wise [men], O Tzor, [that] were in thee, were thy pilots. |
The inhabitants
3427 {3427} Primeיָשַׁבyashab{yaw-shab'}
A primitive root; properly to sit down (specifically as judge, in ambush, in quiet); by implication to dwell, to remain; causatively to settle, to marry.
z8802 <8802> Grammar
Stem - Qal (See H8851) Mood - Participle Active (See H8814) Count - 5386
of
Xîđôn
צִידוֹן
6721 {6721} PrimeצִידוֹןTsiydown{tsee-done'}
From H6679 in the sense of catching fish; fishery; Tsidon, the name of a son of Canaan, and of a place in Palestine.
and
´Arwađ
אַרוַד
719 {0719} Primeאַרְוַד'Arvad{ar-vad'}
Probably from H7300; a refuge for the roving; Arvad, an island city of Palestine.
were
x1961 (1961) Complementהָיָהhayah{haw-yaw'}
A primitive root (compare H1933); to exist, that is, be or become, come to pass (always emphatic, and not a mere copula or auxiliary).
thy mariners:
7751 {7751} Primeסוּטshuwt{shoot}
A primitive root; properly to push forth; (but used only figuratively) to lash, that is, (the sea with oars) to row; by implication to travel.
z8801 <8801> Grammar
Stem - Qal (See H8851) Mood - Participle (See H8813) Count - 309
thy wise
2450 {2450} Primeחָכָםchakam{khaw-kawm'}
From H2449; wise, (that is, intelligent, skilful or artful).
[ men], O
Xôr
צוֹר,
6865 {6865} PrimeצֹרTsor{tsore}
The same as H6864; a rock; Tsor, a place in Palestine.
[ that] were
x1961 (1961) Complementהָיָהhayah{haw-yaw'}
A primitive root (compare H1933); to exist, that is, be or become, come to pass (always emphatic, and not a mere copula or auxiliary).
in thee, were thy pilots.
2259 {2259} Primeחוֹבֵלchobel{kho-bale'}
Active participle from H2254 (in the sense of handling ropes); a sailor. |
Ezekiel 27:8
_ _ Arvad — a small island and city near Phoenicia, now Ruad: its inhabitants are still noted for seafaring habits.
_ _ thy wise men, O Tyrus ... thy pilots — While the men of Arvad, once thy equals (Genesis 10:18), and the Sidonians, once thy superiors, were employed by thee in subordinate positions as “mariners,” thou madest thine own skilled men alone to be commanders and pilots. Implying the political and mercantile superiority of Tyre. |
Ezekiel 27:8
Zidon — An ancient town and haven of Phoenicia, not far from Tyre. Arvad — Or Aradus, an island belonging to Phoenicia, twenty furlongs from the continent. Mariners — Rowers in thy galleys; the rich Tyrians would not employ their own in such servile works, they hired strangers. Wise men — Thy learned men: for navigation was the great study of the Tyrians. |
- Zidon:
Genesis 10:15 And Canaan begat Sidon his firstborn, and Heth,
, Sidon,
Genesis 49:13 Zebulun shall dwell at the haven of the sea; and he [shall be] for an haven of ships; and his border [shall be] unto Zidon.
Joshua 11:8 And the LORD delivered them into the hand of Israel, who smote them, and chased them unto great Zidon, and unto Misrephothmaim, and unto the valley of Mizpeh eastward; and they smote them, until they left them none remaining.
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- Arvad:
Ezekiel 27:11 The men of Arvad with thine army [were] upon thy walls round about, and the Gammadims were in thy towers: they hanged their shields upon thy walls round about; they have made thy beauty perfect.
Genesis 10:18 And the Arvadite, and the Zemarite, and the Hamathite: and afterward were the families of the Canaanites spread abroad.
Isaiah 10:9 [Is] not Calno as Carchemish? [is] not Hamath as Arpad? [is] not Samaria as Damascus?
Jeremiah 49:23 Concerning Damascus. Hamath is confounded, and Arpad: for they have heard evil tidings: they are fainthearted; [there is] sorrow on the sea; it cannot be quiet.
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- wise:
Ezekiel 27:28 The suburbs shall shake at the sound of the cry of thy pilots.
1 Kings 5:6 Now therefore command thou that they hew me cedar trees out of Lebanon; and my servants shall be with thy servants: and unto thee will I give hire for thy servants according to all that thou shalt appoint: for thou knowest that [there is] not among us any that can skill to hew timber like unto the Sidonians.
1 Kings 9:27 And Hiram sent in the navy his servants, shipmen that had knowledge of the sea, with the servants of Solomon.
2 Chronicles 2:13-14 And now I have sent a cunning man, endued with understanding, of Huram my father's, ... The son of a woman of the daughters of Dan, and his father [was] a man of Tyre, skilful to work in gold, and in silver, in brass, in iron, in stone, and in timber, in purple, in blue, and in fine linen, and in crimson; also to grave any manner of graving, and to find out every device which shall be put to him, with thy cunning men, and with the cunning men of my lord David thy father.
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