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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 fir trees were not like his boughs, and the chestnut trees were not like his branches; nor any tree in the garden of God was like unto him in his beauty.
9I have made him fair by the multitude of his branches: so that 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 become fenced, and are inhabited. (Ezek. 36:35)
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Gen. 2:8• 8And Jehovah Elohim planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he 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 whence he was taken.
24So he drove out the man; and he placed eastward of Eden's garden the Cherubim and the blade of the flashing sword to keep the way of the tree of life.
(Gen. 3:23‑24)
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Gen. 13:10• 10{i}And Lot{/i} lifted up his eyes, and beheld all the plain of Jordan {i}that it was thoroughly watered, before Jehovah had destroyed Sodom and Gomorrha; as the garden of Jehovah, like the land of Egypt, as one goes to Zoar.{/i} (Gen. 13:10)
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Isa. 51:3• 3For Jehovah will comfort Zion; he will comfort all her waste places; and he will make her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the garden of Jehovah: joy and gladness shall be found therein, thanksgiving and the voice of melody. (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 the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness; yea, and nothing shall escape them. (Joel 2:3)
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Rev. 2:7• 7He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith to the churches. To him that overcometh I will give him to eat of the tree of life, which is in the paradise of [my] God. (Rev. 2:7)
every.
Ezek. 27:16,22• 16{i}Syria 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.{/i}
22{i}The merchants of Sheba and Raamah were thy traffickers: they furnished thy markets with all the choice spices, and with all precious stones and gold.{/i}
(Ezek. 27:16,22)
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Gen. 2:11‑12• 11The name of the one [is] Pison, that which compasseth all the land of Havilah, where the gold [is],
12and the gold of that land is good; there [is] the bdellium and the onyx stone .
(Gen. 2:11‑12)
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Ex. 28:17‑20• 17{i}And thou shalt set in it settings of stones—four rows of stones: one row, a sardoin, a topaz, and an emerald—the first row;{/i}
18{i}and the second row, a carbuncle, a sapphire, and a diamond;{/i}
19{i}and the third row, an opal, an agate, and an amethyst;{/i}
20{i}and the fourth row, a chrysolite, and an onyx, and a jasper; enclosed in gold shall they be in their settings.{/i}
(Ex. 28:17‑20)
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Ex. 39:10‑21• 10{i}And they set in it four rows of stones: one row, a sardoin, a topaz, and an emerald—the first row;{/i}
11{i}and the second row, a carbuncle, a sapphire, and a diamond;{/i}
12{i}and the third row, an opal, an agate, and an amethyst;{/i}
13{i}and the fourth row, a chrysolite, an onyx, and a jasper; mounted in enclosures of gold in their settings.{/i}
14{i}And 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.{/i}
15{i}And they made on the breastplate chains of laced work of wreathen work, of pure gold.{/i}
16{i}And they made two settings of gold, and two gold rings, and put the two rings on the two ends of the breastplate.{/i}
17{i}And they put the two wreathen cords of gold in the two rings on the ends of the breastplate;{/i}
18{i}and 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.{/i}
19{i}And 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.{/i}
20{i}And 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.{/i}
21{i}And 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.{/i}
(Ex. 39:10‑21)
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Isa. 54:11‑12• 11O 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 pinnacles of rubies, and thy gates of carbuncles, and all thy border of pleasant stones.
(Isa. 54:11‑12)
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Rev. 17:4• 4And the woman was clothed with purple and scarlet, and decked with gold and precious stone and pearls, having in her hand a golden cup 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 {i}were{/i} 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 chrysolyte, 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."

W. Kelly Translation

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Thou hast been in Eden, the garden of God; every precious stone was thy covering, the sardius, topaz, and the diamond, the beryl, the onyx, and the jasper, the sapphire, the emerald, and the carbuncle, and gold: the workmanship of thy tabrets and of thy pipes was prepared in thee in the day that thou wast created.