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Ezekiel 28

Ezek. 28:13 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Thou hast been in Eden
`Eden (Hebrew #5731)
Eden, the region of Adam's home
KJV usage: Eden.
Pronounce: ay'-den
Origin: the same as 5730 (masculine)
the garden
gan (Hebrew #1588)
a garden (as fenced)
KJV usage: garden.
Pronounce: gan
Origin: from 1598
of God
'elohiym (Hebrew #430)
gods in the ordinary sense; but specifically used (in the plural thus, especially with the article) of the supreme God; occasionally applied by way of deference to magistrates; and sometimes as a superlative
KJV usage: angels, X exceeding, God (gods)(-dess, -ly), X (very) great, judges, X mighty.
Pronounce: el-o-heem'
Origin: plural of 433
; every precious
yaqar (Hebrew #3368)
from 3365; valuable (obj. or subj.): --brightness, clear, costly, excellent, fat, honourable women, precious, reputation.
Pronounce: yaw-kawr'
stone
'eben (Hebrew #68)
a stone
KJV usage: + carbuncle, + mason, + plummet, (chalk-, hail-, head-, sling-)stone(-ny), (divers) weight(-s).
Pronounce: eh'-ben
Origin: from the root of 1129 through the meaning to build
was thy covering
mcukkah (Hebrew #4540)
a covering, i.e. garniture
KJV usage: covering.
Pronounce: mes-ook-kaw'
Origin: from 5526
, the φsardius
'odem (Hebrew #124)
redness, i.e. the ruby, garnet, or some other red gem
KJV usage: sardius.
Pronounce: o'-dem
Origin: from 119
, topaz
pitdah (Hebrew #6357)
a gem, probably the topaz
KJV usage: topaz.
Pronounce: pit-daw'
Origin: of foreign derivation
, and the diamond
yahalom (Hebrew #3095)
a precious stone, probably onyx
KJV usage: diamond.
Pronounce: yah-hal-ome'
Origin: from 1986 (in the sense of hardness)
, the χberyl
tarshiysh (Hebrew #8658)
a gem, perhaps the topaz
KJV usage: beryl.
Pronounce: tar-sheesh'
Origin: probably of foreign derivation (compare 8659)
, the onyx
shoham (Hebrew #7718)
a gem, probably the beryl (from its pale green color)
KJV usage: onyx.
Pronounce: sho'-ham
Origin: from an unused root probably mean to blanch
, and the jasper
yashpheh (Hebrew #3471)
a gem supposed to be jasper (from the resemblance in name)
KJV usage: jasper.
Pronounce: yaw-shef-ay'
Origin: from an unused root meaning to polish
, the sapphire
cappiyr (Hebrew #5601)
a gem (perhaps used for scratching other substances), probably the sapphire
KJV usage: sapphire.
Pronounce: sap-peer'
Origin: from 5608
, the ψemerald
nophek (Hebrew #5306)
shining; a gem, probably the garnet
KJV usage: emerald.
Pronounce: no'-fek
Origin: from an unused root meaning to glisten
, and the carbuncle
bareqeth (Hebrew #1304)
from 1300; a gem (as flashing), perhaps the emerald
KJV usage: carbuncle.
Pronounce: baw-reh'-keth
Origin: or barkath {baw-rek-ath'}
, and gold
zahab (Hebrew #2091)
gold, figuratively, something gold-colored (i.e. yellow), as oil, a clear sky
KJV usage: gold(-en), fair weather.
Pronounce: zaw-hawb'
Origin: from an unused root meaning to shimmer
: the workmanship
mla'kah (Hebrew #4399)
properly, deputyship, i.e. ministry; generally, employment (never servile) or work (abstractly or concretely); also property (as the result of labor)
KJV usage: business, + cattle, + industrious, occupation, (+ -pied), + officer, thing (made), use, (manner of) work((-man), -manship).
Pronounce: mel-aw-kaw'
Origin: from the same as 4397
of thy tabrets
toph (Hebrew #8596)
a tambourine
KJV usage: tabret, timbrel.
Pronounce: tofe
Origin: from 8608 contracted
and of thy pipes
neqeb (Hebrew #5345)
a bezel (for a gem)
KJV usage: pipe.
Pronounce: neh'keb
was prepared
kuwn (Hebrew #3559)
properly, to be erect (i.e. stand perpendicular); hence (causatively) to set up, in a great variety of applications, whether literal (establish, fix, prepare, apply), or figurative (appoint, render sure, proper or prosperous)
KJV usage: certain(-ty), confirm, direct, faithfulness, fashion, fasten, firm, be fitted, be fixed, frame, be meet, ordain, order, perfect, (make) preparation, prepare (self), provide, make provision, (be, make) ready, right, set (aright, fast, forth), be stable, (e-)stablish, stand, tarry, X very deed.
Pronounce: koon
Origin: a primitive root
in thee in the day
yowm (Hebrew #3117)
a day (as the warm hours), whether literal (from sunrise to sunset, or from one sunset to the next), or figurative (a space of time defined by an associated term), (often used adverb)
KJV usage: age, + always, + chronicals, continually(-ance), daily, ((birth-), each, to) day, (now a, two) days (agone), + elder, X end, + evening, + (for) ever(-lasting, -more), X full, life, as (so) long as (... live), (even) now, + old, + outlived, + perpetually, presently, + remaineth, X required, season, X since, space, then, (process of) time, + as at other times, + in trouble, weather, (as) when, (a, the, within a) while (that), X whole (+ age), (full) year(-ly), + younger.
Pronounce: yome
Origin: from an unused root meaning to be hot
that thou wast created
bara' (Hebrew #1254)
(absolutely) to create; (qualified) to cut down (a wood), select, feed (as formative processes)
KJV usage: choose, create (creator), cut down, dispatch, do, make (fat).
Pronounce: baw-raw'
Origin: a primitive root
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φ
or, ruby.
χ
or, chrysolite.
ψ
or, chrysoprase.

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in Eden.
Ezek. 31:8‑9• 8The cedars in the garden of God could not hide him; the cypresses were not like his boughs, and the plane-trees were not as his branches: no tree in the garden of God was like unto him in his beauty.
9I had made him fair by the multitude of his branches; and all the trees of Eden, that were in the garden of God, envied him.
(Ezek. 31:8‑9)
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Ezek. 36:35• 35And they shall say, This land that was desolate is become like the garden of Eden; and the waste and desolate and ruined cities are fortified and inhabited. (Ezek. 36:35)
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Gen. 2:8• 8And Jehovah Elohim planted a garden in Eden eastward, and there put Man whom he had formed. (Gen. 2:8)
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Gen. 3:23‑24• 23Therefore Jehovah Elohim sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from which he was taken.
24And he drove out Man; and he set the Cherubim, and the flame of the flashing sword, toward the east of the garden of Eden, to guard the way to the tree of life.
(Gen. 3:23‑24)
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Gen. 13:10• 10And Lot lifted up his eyes, and beheld all the plain of the Jordan that it was thoroughly watered, before Jehovah had destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah; as the garden of Jehovah, like the land of Egypt, as one goes to Zoar. (Gen. 13:10)
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Isa. 51:3• 3For Jehovah shall comfort Zion, he shall comfort all her waste places; and he will make her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the garden of Jehovah: gladness and joy shall be found therein, thanksgiving, and the voice of song. (Isa. 51:3)
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Joel 2:3• 3A fire devoureth before them, and behind them a flame burneth; the land is as a garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness: yea, and nothing escapeth them. (Joel 2:3)
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Rev. 2:7• 7He that has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the assemblies. To him that overcomes, I will give to him to eat of the tree of life which is in the paradise of God. (Rev. 2:7)
every.
Ezek. 27:16,22• 16Syria dealt with thee for the multitude of thy handiworks: they traded in thy markets with carbuncles, purple, and broidered work, and fine linen, and corals, and rubies.
22The merchants of Sheba and Raamah were thy traffickers: they furnished thy markets with all the choice spices, and with all precious stones and gold.
(Ezek. 27:16,22)
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Gen. 2:11‑12• 11The name of the one is Pison: that is it which surrounds the whole land of Havilah, where the gold is.
12And the gold of that land is good; bdellium and the onyx stone are there.
(Gen. 2:11‑12)
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Ex. 28:17‑20• 17And thou shalt set in it settings of stones--four rows of stones: one row, a sardoin, a topaz, and an emerald--the first row;
18and the second row, a carbuncle, a sapphire, and a diamond;
19and the third row, an opal, an agate, and an amethyst;
20and the fourth row, a chrysolite, and an onyx, and a jasper; enclosed in gold shall they be in their settings.
(Ex. 28:17‑20)
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Ex. 39:10‑21• 10And they set in it four rows of stones: one row, a sardoin, a topaz, and an emerald--the first row;
11and the second row, a carbuncle, a sapphire, and a diamond;
12and the third row, an opal, an agate, and an amethyst;
13and the fourth row, a chrysolite, an onyx, and a jasper; mounted in enclosures of gold in their settings.
14And the stones were according to the names of the children of Israel, twelve, according to their names, engraved as a seal, every one according to his name, for the twelve tribes.
15And they made on the breastplate chains of laced work of wreathen work, of pure gold.
16And they made two settings of gold, and two gold rings, and put the two rings on the two ends of the breastplate.
17And they put the two wreathen cords of gold in the two rings on the ends of the breastplate;
18and the two ends of the two wreathen cords they fastened to the two settings, and put them on the shoulder-pieces of the ephod, on the front thereof.
19And they made two rings of gold, and put them on the two ends of the breastplate, on the border thereof, which faceth the ephod inwards.
20And they made two rings of gold, and put them upon the two shoulder-pieces of the ephod underneath, to the front thereof, just by the coupling thereof, above the girdle of the ephod.
21And they bound the breastplate with its rings to the rings of the ephod with lace of blue, that it might be above the girdle of the ephod, and that the breastplate might not be loosed from the ephod; as Jehovah had commanded Moses.
(Ex. 39:10‑21)
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Isa. 54:11‑12• 11Thou afflicted, tossed with tempest, not comforted! Behold, I will set thy stones in antimony, and lay thy foundations with sapphires;
12and I will make thy battlements of rubies, and thy gates of carbuncles, and all thy borders of precious stones.
(Isa. 54:11‑12)
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Rev. 17:4• 4And the woman was clothed in purple and scarlet, and had ornaments of gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and the unclean things of her fornication; (Rev. 17:4)
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Rev. 21:19‑20• 19the foundations of the wall of the city were adorned with every precious stone: the first foundation, jasper; the second, sapphire; the third, chalcedony; the fourth, emerald;
20the fifth, sardonyx; the sixth, sardius; the seventh, chrysolite; the eighth, beryl; the ninth, topaz; the tenth, chrysoprasus; the eleventh, jacinth; the twelfth, amethyst.
(Rev. 21:19‑20)
sardius.
or, ruby.
beryl.
or, chrysolite.
emerald.
or,chrysoprase.
the workmanship.
thou wast.

J. N. Darby Translation

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thou wast in Eden, the garden of Godc. Every precious stone was thy covering: the sardius, the topaz, and the diamond, the chrysolite, the onyx, and the jasper, the sapphire, the carbuncle, and the emerald, and gold. The workmanshipd of thy tambours and of thy pipes was in thee: in the day that thou wast created were they prepared.

JND Translation Notes

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c
See ch. 31.9.
d
Or "the service."