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“And you,וְאַתָּהsonבֶןof man,אָדָםraiseשָׂאover Tyreעַל צֹרa dirge,קִינָה
Ezekiel 27:2
Study it in the app““And you, son of man, raise over Tyre a dirge,”
With the Hebrew beneath
Ezekiel 27:2, word by word
- sonבֶןven
human being
Literally "son of Adam": any person, a mortal.
Where else “ven” appears- of manאָדָםadam
human being
All humankind, men and women, as creatures God formed.
Where else “adam” appears- raiseשָׂאsa
lift up
To direct the eyes upward, make the voice loud, or put up the hand.
Where else “sa” appears- over Tyreצֹרtsor
Tyre
See it on the mapWhere else “tsor” appears- a dirgeקִינָהkina
lament, dirge
Dirge: a poem sung over someone's death or over a disaster. The Hebrew name of the book of Lamentations comes from this word.
Where else “kina” appears
Places in this verse
Tyre
Today: Tyre (Sour), Lebanon
A port city on the Mediterranean coast, in present-day Lebanon, about 25 miles (40 km) north of Israel's present border.
Its king Hiram helped David and Solomon with timber and workers (1 Kgs 5:1). Ezekiel announced its fall (Ezek 27:2), and Jesus mentioned it when rebuking towns that did not change their minds (Matt 11:21).
The context
1And the word of YHWH came to me, saying,
2 · This verse (above)
3and say to Tyre, who dwells at the entrances of the sea, trader of the peoples to many coastlands: ‘Thus says Adonai YHWH: Tyre, you have said, “I am perfection of beauty.”