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Your motherאִמְּךָwas like a vineכַגֶּפֶןin your blood,בְּדָמְךָplantedשְׁתוּלָהby the waters;עַל מַיִםfruitfulפֹּרִיָּהand full of branchesוַעֲנֵפָהshe wasהָיְתָהbecause of manyמִ רַבִּיםwaters.מַּיִם
Ezekiel 19:10
Study it in the app“Your mother was like a vine in your blood, planted by the waters; fruitful and full of branches she was because of many waters.”
With the Hebrew beneath
Ezekiel 19:10, word by word
- Your motherאִמְּim
mother
The woman who gives birth to and raises her children, and who is owed honor.
Where else “im” appears- was like a vineגֶּפֶןgefen
vine
Vine: the plant that bears grapes.
Where else “gefen” appears- in your bloodדָמְdam
blood
The red fluid that runs through the body and carries the life of people and animals.
Where else “dam” appears- plantedשְׁתוּלָהshetula
plant, transplant
To plant, to transplant: to set a tree in a good place so that it grows.
Where else “shetula” appears- by the watersמַיִםmayim
water
Water: for drinking, of rivers or seas.
Where else “mayim” appears- fruitfulפֹּרִיָּהporiya
be fruitful
Bear fruit; be fruitful, have descendants.
Where else “poriya” appears- and full of branchesעֲנֵפָהanefa
full of branches
Full of branches, leafy.
Where else “anefa” appears- she wasהָיְתָהhayta
be
To be: "I will be their Elohim".
Where else “hayta” appears- because of manyרַבִּיםrabim
many
A great number of people or things.
Where else “rabim” appears
Translation note
“In your blood”: obscure sense; perhaps “in your likeness” or, with another reading, “in your vineyard.”
The context
9And they put him in the cage with hooks and brought him to the king of Babylon; they brought him in snares, so that his voice would no longer be heard on the mountains of Israel.
10 · This verse (above)
11And she had strong rods for scepters of rulers; and its stature rose high up among the thick foliage, and it was seen in its height, with the multitude of its branches.