Ezekiel 31:4

“The waters made it grow, the deep made it high; her streams went around her planting, and her conduits she sent out to all the trees of the field.”

Ezekiel 31:4 · direct translation from the Hebrew
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Ezekiel 31:4, word by word

The watersמַיִםmayim

water

Water: for drinking, of rivers or seas.

Where else “mayim” appears
made it growגִּדְּלוּgidlu

grow up

To get bigger, become an adult; to bring up a child.

Where else “gidlu” appears
the deepתְּהוֹםtehom

the deep

The deep waters: the deep sea, the ocean, and the waters under the earth. In the Hebrew Bible it is not a place of punishment or the place of the dead.

Where else “tehom” appears
made it highרֹמְמָתְrommat

be high

To be up above, raised in honor.

Where else “rommat” appears
her streamsנַהֲרֹתֶיnaharote

river

River, stream; above all the Euphrates ("the River") or the Nile.

Where else “naharote” appears
wentהֹלֵךְholech

go

To move on foot from place to place; to set out.

Where else “holech” appears
aroundסְבִיבוֹתsevivot

around

In a circle or on every side of something: the camp, the city, the altar.

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her plantingמַטָּעָmataa

planting, plantation

A planting: the place planted (a garden or vineyard) or what is planted.

Where else “mataa” appears
and her conduitsתְּעָלֹתֶיtealote

trench

A ditch where water runs.

Where else “tealote” appears
she sent outשִׁלְחָהshilcha

send

To send someone or something.

Where else “shilcha” appears
the treesעֲצֵיatse

tree

A tall plant with trunk and branches, giving fruit, shade or timber.

Where else “atse” appears
of the fieldשָּׂדֶהsade

field

The open country: "the beasts of the field".

Where else “sade” appears

The context

3Look, Assyria, a cedar in Lebanon, beautiful of branches, and a thicket giving shade, and tall of stature, and among the thick foliage was its top.

4 · This verse (above)

5Therefore its height was exalted above all the trees of the field, and its boughs multiplied, and its foliage grew long from many waters as it spread out.

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