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Haranחָרָןand Cannehוְכַנֵּהand Eden,וָעֶדֶןthe tradersרֹכְלֵיof Sheba,שְׁבָאAssyria,אַשּׁוּרChilmadכִּלְמַדwere your traders.רֹכַלְתֵּךְ
Ezekiel 27:23
Study it in the app“Haran and Canneh and Eden, the traders of Sheba, Assyria, Chilmad were your traders.”
With the Hebrew beneath
Ezekiel 27:23, word by word
- Haranחָרָןcharan
Haran
See it on the mapWhere else “charan” appears- and Cannehכַנֵּהchane
Canneh
Canneh: a place in Mesopotamia.
Where else “chane” appears- and Edenעֶדֶןeden
Eden
Eden. Here, the name of a region of Mesopotamia conquered by Assyria: "the sons of Eden who were in Telassar" (2 Kings 19:12; Ezekiel 27:23). It is not the Eden of the garden of Genesis, which is written differently in Hebrew.
Where else “eden” appears- the tradersרֹכְלֵיrochle
go about trading
Go from place to place selling; as a participle, trader, traveling merchant.
Where else “rochle” appears- of Shebaשְׁבָאsheva
Sheba
Sheba, the name of several men and of a region in southern Arabia known for its trade (the queen of Sheba, 1 Kings 10).
Where else “sheva” appears- Assyriaאַשּׁוּרashur
Assyria, Asshur
See it on the mapWhere else “ashur” appears- Chilmadכִּלְמַדkilmad
Chilmad
Chilmad: a place in the Assyrian empire.
Where else “kilmad” appears
Places in this verse
1Haran
Today: Harran, southern Turkey, near Syria
A city in northern Mesopotamia, in what is now southern Turkey near the Syrian border.
Abram stopped there with his family and left at seventy-five at God's command (Gen 12:4). Jacob fled there and worked for Laban (Gen 28:10; 29:4).
2Assyria
Today: northern Iraq (with parts of Syria, Turkey, Iran)
An empire of northern Mesopotamia along the Tigris River, in present-day Iraq.
Assyria took the northern kingdom of Israel captive (2 Kgs 17:6). God sent Jonah to preach in Nineveh, its capital (Jonah 3:3).
The context
22The traders of Sheba and Raamah, they were your traders; with the best of all balsam and with every precious stone and gold they paid for your wares.
23 · This verse (above)
24They were your traders in luxurious things, in cloaks of blue and embroidery, and in chests of colored fabrics, bound with cords and firm, in your market.