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Ezekiel 16

Ezek. 16:46 KJV (With Strong’s)

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And thine elder
gadowl (Hebrew #1419)
from 1431; great (in any sense); hence, older; also insolent
KJV usage: + aloud, elder(-est), + exceeding(-ly), + far, (man of) great (man, matter, thing,-er,-ness), high, long, loud, mighty, more, much, noble, proud thing, X sore, (X ) very.
Pronounce: gaw-dole'
Origin: or (shortened) gadol {gaw-dole'}
sister
'achowth (Hebrew #269)
a sister (used very widely (like 250), literally and figuratively)
KJV usage: (an-)other, sister, together.
Pronounce: aw-khoth'
Origin: irregular feminine of 251
is Samaria
Shomrown (Hebrew #8111)
watch-station; Shomeron, a place in Palestine
KJV usage: Samaria.
Pronounce: sho-mer-one'
Origin: from the active participle of 8104
, she and her daughters
bath (Hebrew #1323)
a daughter (used in the same wide sense as other terms of relationship, literally and figuratively)
KJV usage: apple (of the eye), branch, company, daughter, X first, X old, + owl, town, village.
Pronounce: bath
Origin: from 1129 (as feminine of 1121)
that dwell
yashab (Hebrew #3427)
properly, to sit down (specifically as judge. in ambush, in quiet); by implication, to dwell, to remain; causatively, to settle, to marry
KJV usage: (make to) abide(-ing), continue, (cause to, make to) dwell(-ing), ease self, endure, establish, X fail, habitation, haunt, (make to) inhabit(-ant), make to keep (house), lurking, X marry(-ing), (bring again to) place, remain, return, seat, set(- tle), (down-)sit(-down, still, -ting down, -ting (place) -uate), take, tarry.
Pronounce: yaw-shab'
Origin: a primitive root
at thy left hand
smo'wl (Hebrew #8040)
a primitive word (rather perhaps from the same as 8071 (by insertion of the aleph) through the idea of wrapping up); properly, dark (as enveloped), i.e. the north; hence (by orientation), the left hand
KJV usage: left (hand, side).
Pronounce: sem-ole'
Origin: or smosl {sem-ole'}
: and thy νyounger
qatan (Hebrew #6996)
from 6962; abbreviated, i.e. diminutive, literally (in quantity, size or number) or figuratively (in age or importance)
KJV usage: least, less(-er), little (one), small(-est, one, quantity, thing), young(-er, -est).
Pronounce: kaw-tawn'
Origin: or qaton {kaw-tone'}
sister
'achowth (Hebrew #269)
a sister (used very widely (like 250), literally and figuratively)
KJV usage: (an-)other, sister, together.
Pronounce: aw-khoth'
Origin: irregular feminine of 251
, that dwelleth
yashab (Hebrew #3427)
properly, to sit down (specifically as judge. in ambush, in quiet); by implication, to dwell, to remain; causatively, to settle, to marry
KJV usage: (make to) abide(-ing), continue, (cause to, make to) dwell(-ing), ease self, endure, establish, X fail, habitation, haunt, (make to) inhabit(-ant), make to keep (house), lurking, X marry(-ing), (bring again to) place, remain, return, seat, set(- tle), (down-)sit(-down, still, -ting down, -ting (place) -uate), take, tarry.
Pronounce: yaw-shab'
Origin: a primitive root
at thy right hand
yamiyn (Hebrew #3225)
the right hand or side (leg, eye) of a person or other object (as the stronger and more dexterous); locally, the south
KJV usage: + left-handed, right (hand, side), south.
Pronounce: yaw-meen'
Origin: from 3231
, is Sodom
Cdom (Hebrew #5467)
burnt (i.e. volcanic or bituminous) district; Sedom, a place near the Dead Sea
KJV usage: Sodom.
Pronounce: sed-ome'
Origin: from an unused root meaning to scorch
i and her daughters
bath (Hebrew #1323)
a daughter (used in the same wide sense as other terms of relationship, literally and figuratively)
KJV usage: apple (of the eye), branch, company, daughter, X first, X old, + owl, town, village.
Pronounce: bath
Origin: from 1129 (as feminine of 1121)
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sister lesser than thou.
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Deut. 32:32• 32{i}For their vine is of the vine of Sodom,{HR}And of the fields of Gomorrah:{HR}Their grapes are grapes of poison,{HR}Bitter are their clusters;{HR}{/i} (Deut. 32:32)

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Daughter,
Samaria,
Sodom; Sodoma

Cross References

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Ezek. 16:51• 51Neither hath Samaria committed half of thy sins; but thou hast multiplied thine abominations more than they, and hast justified thy sisters in all thine abominations which thou hast done. (Ezek. 16:51)
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Ezek. 23:4,11,31‑33• 4{i}And their names were Oholah the elder, and Oholibah her sister;{/i} they were mine, and they begat sons and daughters. {i}As for their names: Samaria is Oholah, and Jerusalem Oholibah.{/i}
 11{i}And her sister Oholibah saw this, and{/i} was more corrupt in her inordinate love than {i}she, and in her fornications more than{/i} {i}the whoredoms of her sister.{/i}
 31Thou hast walked in the way of thy sister; therefore will I give her cup into thine hand.
 32Thus saith the Lord Jehovah, Thou shalt drink of thy sister's cup, deep and large: thou shalt be laughed to scorn and had in derision; it containeth much.
 33Thou shalt be filled with drunkenness and sorrow, with the cup of astonishment and desolation, with the cup of thy sister Samaria. (Ezek. 23:4,11,31‑33)
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Jer. 3:8‑11• 8{i}And I saw that when for all the causes wherein backsliding Israel committed adultery I had put her away, and given her a bill of divorce, yet the treacherous Judah, her sister, feared not, but went and committed fornication also.{/i}
 9{i}And it came to pass through the lightness of her fornication that she polluted the land, and committed adultery with stones and with stocks.{/i}
 10{i}And even for all this her treacherous sister Judah hath not returned unto me with her whole heart, but with falsehood, saith Jehovah.{/i}
 11{i}And Jehovah said unto me, Backsliding Israel hath shown herself more just than treacherous Judah.{/i} (Jer. 3:8‑11)
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Mic. 1:5• 5For the transgression of Jacob is all this, and for the sins of the house of Israel. What is the transgression of Jacob? is it not Samaria? and what are the high places of Judah? are they not Jerusalem? (Mic. 1:5)
thy younger sister.
Heb. thy sister lesser than thou.
Ezek. 16:48‑49,53‑56,61• 48As I live, saith the Lord Jehovah, Sodom thy sister hath not done, she nor her daughters, as thou hast done, thou and thy daughters.
 49Behold, this was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom; pride, fullness of bread, and abundance of idleness was in her and in her daughters, neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy.
 53And I will bring back again their captivity, the captivity of Sodom and her daughters, and the captivity of Samaria and her daughters, and the captivity of thy captives in the midst of them,
 54in order that thou mayest bear thine own shame and mayest be confounded in all that thou hast done when thou art a comfort to them.
 55And thy sisters, Sodom and her daughters, shall return to their former estate; and Samaria and her daughters shall return to their former estate; and thou and thy daughters shall return to thy former estate.
 56And thy sister Sodom was not a report in thy mouth in the day of thy pride,
 61Then thou shalt remember thy ways, and be ashamed, when thou shalt receive thy sisters, thine elder and thy younger: and I will give them unto thee for daughters, but not by thy covenant. (Ezek. 16:48‑49,53‑56,61)
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Gen. 13:11‑13• 11{i}And Lot chose for himself all the plain of the Jordan; and Lot went toward the east. And they separated the one from the other:{/i}
 12{i}Abram dwelt in the land of Canaan; and Lot dwelt in the cities of the plain, and pitched tents as far as Sodom.{/i}
 13{i}And the people of Sodom were wicked, and great sinners before Jehovah.{/i} (Gen. 13:11‑13)
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Gen. 18:20‑33• 20And Jehovah said, Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrha is great, and because their sin is very grievous,
 21I will go down now and see whether they have done altogether according to the cry of it, which is come unto, me; and if not, I will know.
 22And the men turned their faces from thence, and went toward Sodom: but Abraham stood yet before Jehovah.
 23And Abraham drew near, and said, Wilt thou also destroy the righteous with the wicked?
 24Peradventure there be fifty righteous within the city, wilt thou also destroy, and not spare, the place for the fifty righteous that are therein?
 25{i}Far be it from thee to do so, to slay the righteous with the wicked, that the righteous should be as the wicked—far be it from thee! Will not the Judge of all the earth do right?{/i}
 26{i}And{/i} Jehovah said, If I find in Sodom fifty righteous within the city, then I will spare all the place for their sakes.
 27{i}And Abraham answered and said, Behold now, I have ventured to speak unto the Lord; I, who am dust and ashes.{/i}
 28{i}Perhaps there may want five of the fifty righteous: wilt thou destroy all the city on account of the five? And he said, If I shall find forty-five there, I will not destroy it.{/i}
 29{i}And he continued yet to speak with him, and said, Perhaps there may be forty found there. And he said, I will not do it for the forty's sake.{/i}
 30{i}And he said, Oh, let not the Lord be angry that I speak! Perhaps there may be thirty found there. And he said, I will not do it if I find thirty there.{/i}
 31{i}And he said, Behold now, I have ventured to speak with the Lord. Perhaps there may be twenty found there. And he said, I will not destroy it for the twenty's sake.{/i}
 32{i}And he said,{/i} Oh, let not the Lord be angry, and I will speak yet but this once. Peradventure ten shall be found there. And he said, I will not destroy it for ten's sake.
 33{i}And Jehovah went away when he had ended speaking to Abraham; and Abraham returned to his place.{/i} (Gen. 18:20‑33)
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Gen. 19:24‑25• 24Then Jehovah rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrha brimstone and fire from Jehovah out of heaven;
 25and he overthrew those cities, and all the plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew upon the ground. (Gen. 19:24‑25)
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Deut. 29:23• 23{i}that the whole ground thereof is brimstone and salt, and burning, that it is not sown, nor beareth, and no grass groweth in it, like the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboim, which Jehovah overthrew in his anger and in his fury:{/i} (Deut. 29:23)
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Deut. 32:32• 32{i}For their vine is of the vine of Sodom,{HR}And of the fields of Gomorrah:{HR}Their grapes are grapes of poison,{HR}Bitter are their clusters;{HR}{/i} (Deut. 32:32)
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Isa. 1:9‑10• 9Unless Jehovah of hosts had left us a very small remnant, we should have been as Sodom, we should have resembled Gomorrha.
 10Hear the word of Jehovah, ye rulers of Sodom; give ear unto the law of our God, ye people of Gomorrha. (Isa. 1:9‑10)
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Jer. 23:14• 14{i}And in the prophets of Jerusalem have I seen a horrible thing: they commit adultery, and walk in falsehood, and strengthen the hands of evildoers, so that none doth return from his wickedness. They are all become unto me as Sodom, and the inhabitants thereof as Gomorrah.{/i} (Jer. 23:14)
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Lam. 4:6• 6For the punishment of the iniquity of the daughter of my people is greater than the punishment of the sin of Sodom,{HR}That was overthrown as in a moment, and no hands stayed on her. (Lam. 4:6)
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Lam. 4•  (Lam. 4)
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Luke 17:28‑30• 28And in like manner as took place in the days of Lot; they ate, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they builded;
 29but in the day that Lot went out from Sodom, it rained fire and sulphur from heaven and destroyed all [of them]:
 30after this [manner] shall it be in the day that the Son of man is revealed. (Luke 17:28‑30)
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2 Peter 2:6• 6and reducing to ashes [the] cities of Sodom and Gomorrha, he condemned [them] with overthrow, having set an example to those that should live ungodlily, (2 Peter 2:6)
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Jude 7• 7as Sodom and Gomorrha and the cities around them, having in the like manner with them greedily committed fornication and gone after strange flesh, lie there an example, undergoing judgment of eternal fire. (Jude 7)
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Rev. 11:8• 8And their dead body {i}shall be{/i} on the street of the great city which is called spiritually Sodom and Egypt, where also their Lord was crucified. (Rev. 11:8)
her daughters.
Ezek. 16:27• 27{i}And behold, I stretched out my hand over thee, and diminished thine appointed portion; and I gave thee over unto the will of them that hate thee, the daughters of the Philistines, who were confounded at thy lewd way.{/i} (Ezek. 16:27)
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Ezek. 16•  (Ezek. 16)
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Ezek. 26:6• 6And her daughters which are in the field shall be slain by the sword; and they shall know that I am Jehovah. (Ezek. 26:6)
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Gen. 14:8• 8{i}And the king of Sodom and the king of Gomorrha, and the king of Admah, and the king of Zeboim, and the king of Bela, which is Zoar, went out, and they joined battle with them in the vale of Siddim,{/i} (Gen. 14:8)
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Gen. 19:29• 29And it came to pass, when God destroyed the cities of the plain, that God remembered Abraham, and sent Lot out of the midst of the overthrow, when he overthrew the cities in the which Lot dwelt. (Gen. 19:29)
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Hos. 11:8• 8How shall I give thee up, Ephraim? how shall I deliver thee, Israel? how shall I make thee as Admah? how shall I set thee as Zeboim? mine heart is turned within me, my repentings are kindled together. (Hos. 11:8)

J. N. Darby Translation

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And thine elder sister is Samaria that dwelleth at thy left hand, she and her daughters; and thy younger sister, that dwelleth at thy right hand, is Sodom and her daughters.

W. Kelly Translation

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And thine elder sister is Samaria, she and her daughters that dwell at thy left hand: and thy younger sister, that dwelleth at thy right hand, is Sodom and her daughters.