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Ezekiel 17:13

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← Ezekiel 17:12	Ezekiel 17:13 (KJV)	Ezekiel 17:14 →
Say now to the rebellious house, Know ye not what these [things mean]? tell [them], Behold, the king of Babylon is come to Jerusalem, and hath taken the king thereof, and the princes thereof, and led them with him to Babylon;	And hath taken of the king's seed, and made a covenant with him, and hath taken an oath of him: he hath also taken the mighty of the land:	That the kingdom might be base, that it might not lift itself up, [but] that by keeping of his covenant it might stand.

Verse Text

KJV with Strong's Numbers

And hath taken^H3947 of the king's^H4410 seed^H2233, and made^H3772 a covenant^H1285 with him, and hath taken^H935 an oath^H423 of him: he hath also taken^H3947 the mighty^H352 of the land^H776:

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Original Hebrew

וַיִּקַּח מִזֶּרַע הַמְּלוּכָה וַיִּכְרֹת אִתֹּו בְּרִית וַיָּבֵא אֹתֹו בְּאָלָה וְאֶת־אֵילֵי הָאָרֶץ לָקָח׃

Hebrew	Transliteration	Strong's	Morphology	Gloss
וַ/יִּקַּח֙	va/i.yi.Kach	H3947	HC/Vqw3ms	and/ he took
מִ/זֶּ֣רַע	mi./Ze.ra'	H2233	HR/Ncmsc	one of/ (the) offspring of
הַ/מְּלוּכָ֔ה	ha./me.lu.Khah	H4410	HTd/Ncfsa	(the)/ royalty
וַ/יִּכְרֹ֥ת	va/i.yikh.Rot	H3772	HC/Vqw3ms	and/ he made
אִתּ֖/וֹ	'i.T/o	H854	HR/Sp3ms	with/ him
בְּרִ֑ית	be.Rit	H1285	HNcfsa	a covenant
וַ/יָּבֵ֤א	va/i.ya.Ve'	H935	HC/Vhw3ms	and/ he made go
אֹת/וֹ֙	'o.T/o	H853	HTo/Sp3ms	(obj.)/ him
בְּ/אָלָ֔ה	be./'a.Lah	H423	HR/Ncfsa	in/ an oath
וְ/אֶת	ve./'Et	H853	HC/To	and/ (obj.)
אֵילֵ֥י	'ei.Lei	H352	HNcmpc	(the) leaders of
הָ/אָ֖רֶץ	ha./'A.retz	H776	HTd/Ncbsa	the/ land
לָקָֽח	la.Kach	H3947	HVqp3ms	he took

Source: Westminster Leningrad Codex (MorphHB), TAHOT (Tyndale House)

Strong's References

• H352 — אַיִל (ʼayil, ah'-yil): from the same as אוּל; properly, strength; hence, anything strong; specifically a chief (politically); also a ram (from his strength); a pilaster (as a strong support); an oak or other strong tree; mighty (man), lintel, oak, post, ram, tree.
• H423 — אָלָה (ʼâlâh, aw-law'): from אָלָה; an imprecation; curse, cursing, execration, oath, swearing.
• H776 — אֶרֶץ (ʼerets, eh'-rets): from an unused root probably meaning to be firm; the earth (at large, or partitively a land); [idiom] common, country, earth, field, ground, land, [idiom] natins, way, [phrase] wilderness, world.
• H935 — בּוֹא (bôwʼ, bo): a primitive root; to go or come (in a wide variety of applications); abide, apply, attain, [idiom] be, befall, [phrase] besiege, bring (forth, in, into, to pass), call, carry, [idiom] certainly, (cause, let, thing for) to come (against, in, out, upon, to pass), depart, [idiom] doubtless again, [phrase] eat, [phrase] employ, (cause to) enter (in, into, -tering, -trance, -try), be fallen, fetch, [phrase] follow, get, give, go (down, in, to war), grant, [phrase] have, [idiom] indeed, (in-) vade, lead, lift (up), mention, pull in, put, resort, run (down), send, set, [idiom] (well) stricken (in age), [idiom] surely, take (in), way.
• H1285 — בְּרִית (bᵉrîyth, ber-eeth'): from בָּרָה (in the sense of cutting (like בָּרָא)); a compact (because made by passing between pieces of flesh); confederacy, (con-) feder(-ate), covenant, league.
• H2233 — זֶרַע (zeraʻ, zeh'-rah): from זָרַע; seed; figuratively, fruit, plant, sowing-time, posterity; [idiom] carnally, child, fruitful, seed(-time), sowing-time.
• H3772 — כָּרַת (kârath, kaw-rath'): a primitive root; to cut (off, down or asunder); by implication, to destroy or consume; specifically, to covenant (i.e. make an alliance or bargain, originally by cutting flesh and passing between the pieces); be chewed, be con-(feder-) ate, covenant, cut (down, off), destroy, fail, feller, be freed, hew (down), make a league (covenant), [idiom] lose, perish, [idiom] utterly, [idiom] want.
• H3947 — לָקַח (lâqach, law-kakh'): a primitive root; to take (in the widest variety of applications); accept, bring, buy, carry away, drawn, fetch, get, infold, [idiom] many, mingle, place, receive(-ing), reserve, seize, send for, take (away, -ing, up), use, win.
• H4410 — מְלוּכָה (mᵉlûwkâh, mel-oo-kaw'): feminine passive participle of מָלַךְ; something ruled, i.e. a realm; kingsom, king's, [idiom] royal.

The following Strong's numbers are referenced in the Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) text but were not explicitly tagged in the KJV source:

• H853 — אֵת (ʼêth, ayth): apparent contracted from אוֹת in the demonstrative sense of entity; properly, self (but generally used to point out more definitely the object of a verb or preposition, even or namely); (as such unrepresented in English).
• H854 — אֵת (ʼêth, ayth): probably from אָנָה; properly, nearness (used only as a preposition or an adverb), near; hence, generally, with, by, at, among, etc.; against, among, before, by, for, from, in(-to), (out) of, with. Often with another prepositional prefix.

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