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Thereשָׁםis Assyriaאַשּׁוּרand allוְכָלher assembly;קְהָלָהּaround himסְבִיבוֹתָיוare his graves,קִבְרֹתָיוall of themכֻּלָּםslain,חֲלָלִיםthose fallenהַנֹּפְלִיםby the sword,בֶּחָרֶב
Ezekiel 32:22
Study it in the app“There is Assyria and all her assembly; around him are his graves, all of them slain, those fallen by the sword,”
With the Hebrew beneath
Ezekiel 32:22, word by word
- is Assyriaאַשּׁוּרashur
Assyria, Asshur
See it on the mapWhere else “ashur” appears- her assemblyקְהָלָkehala
assembly
The people gathered before YHWH.
Where else “kehala” appears- around himסְבִיבוֹתָיsevivotay
around
In a circle or on every side of something: the camp, the city, the altar.
Where else “sevivotay” appears- are his gravesקִבְרֹתָיkivrotay
tomb
Tomb, grave.
Where else “kivrotay” appears- slainחֲלָלִיםchalalim
slain
Someone killed or wounded in war.
Where else “chalalim” appears- those fallenנֹּפְלִיםnoflim
fall in battle
To die in battle, killed by the enemy.
Where else “noflim” appears- by the swordחָרֶבcharev
sword
A sword; or war.
Where else “charev” appears
Places in this verse
Assyria
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
21The mighty ones of the mighty men will speak to him from the midst of Sheol, with his helpers: ‘They have gone down, they lie there, the uncircumcised, slain by the sword.’
22 · This verse (above)
23whose graves were put in the deepest parts of the pit, and her assembly is around her grave, all of them slain, fallen by the sword, who put terror in the land of the living.