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Ezekiel 31

Ezek. 31:10 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Therefore thus saith
'amar (Hebrew #559)
to say (used with great latitude)
KJV usage: answer, appoint, avouch, bid, boast self, call, certify, challenge, charge, + (at the, give) command(-ment), commune, consider, declare, demand, X desire, determine, X expressly, X indeed, X intend, name, X plainly, promise, publish, report, require, say, speak (against, of), X still, X suppose, talk, tell, term, X that is, X think, use (speech), utter, X verily, X yet.
Pronounce: aw-mar'
Origin: a primitive root
the Lord
'Adonay (Hebrew #136)
the Lord (used as a proper name of God only)
KJV usage: (my) Lord.
Pronounce: ad-o-noy'
Origin: am emphatic form of 113
God
Yhovih (Hebrew #3069)
a variation of 3068 (used after 136, and pronounced by Jews as 430, in order to prevent the repetition of the same sound, since they elsewhere pronounce 3068 as 136)
KJV usage: God.
Pronounce: yeh-ho-vee'
; Because thou hast lifted up
gabahh (Hebrew #1361)
to soar, i.e. be lofty; figuratively, to be haughty
KJV usage: exalt, be haughty, be (make) high(-er), lift up, mount up, be proud, raise up great height, upward.
Pronounce: gaw-bah'
Origin: a primitive root
thyselfb in height
qowmah (Hebrew #6967)
height
KJV usage: X along, height, high, stature, tall.
Pronounce: ko-maw'
Origin: from 6965
, and he hath shot up
nathan (Hebrew #5414)
to give, used with greatest latitude of application (put, make, etc.)
KJV usage: add, apply, appoint, ascribe, assign, X avenge, X be ((healed)), bestow, bring (forth, hither), cast, cause, charge, come, commit, consider, count, + cry, deliver (up), direct, distribute, do, X doubtless, X without fail, fasten, frame, X get, give (forth, over, up), grant, hang (up), X have, X indeed, lay (unto charge, up), (give) leave, lend, let (out), + lie, lift up, make, + O that, occupy, offer, ordain, pay, perform, place, pour, print, X pull , put (forth), recompense, render, requite, restore, send (out), set (forth), shew, shoot forth (up), + sing, + slander, strike, (sub-)mit, suffer, X surely, X take, thrust, trade, turn, utter, + weep, + willingly, + withdraw, + would (to) God, yield.
Pronounce: naw-than'
Origin: a primitive root
hisc top
tsammereth (Hebrew #6788)
fleeciness, i.e. foliage
KJV usage: highest branch, top.
Pronounce: tsam-meh'-reth
Origin: from the same as 6785
among the thick boughs
`aboth (Hebrew #5688)
or (feminine) tabothah {ab- oth-aw'}; the same as 5687; something intwined, i.e. a string, wreath or foliage
KJV usage: band, cord, rope, thick bough (branch), wreathen (chain).
Pronounce: ab-oth'
Origin: or rabowth {ab-oth'}
, and his heart
lebab (Hebrew #3824)
the heart (as the most interior organ); used also like 3820
KJV usage: + bethink themselves, breast, comfortably, courage, ((faint), (tender-)heart((-ed)), midst, mind, X unawares, understanding.
Pronounce: lay-bawb'
Origin: from 3823
is lifted up
ruwm (Hebrew #7311)
to be high actively, to rise or raise (in various applications, literally or figuratively)
KJV usage: bring up, exalt (self), extol, give, go up, haughty, heave (up), (be, lift up on, make on, set up on, too) high(-er, one), hold up, levy, lift(-er) up, (be) lofty, (X a-)loud, mount up, offer (up), + presumptuously, (be) promote(-ion), proud, set up, tall(-er), take (away, off, up), breed worms.
Pronounce: room
Origin: a primitive root
in his height
gobahh (Hebrew #1363)
elation, grandeur, arrogance
KJV usage: excellency, haughty, height, high, loftiness, pride.
Pronounce: go'-bah
Origin: from 1361
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Matt. 23:12• 12And whoever shall exalt himself shall be humbled, and whoever shall humble himself shall be exalted. (Matt. 23:12)
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Dan. 5:20• 20But when his heart was lifted up, and his spirit hardened unto presumption, he was deposed from the throne of his kingdom, and they took his glory from him; (Dan. 5:20)

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Cross References

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Therefore.The allegory and its interpretation are here combined; and the Assyrian monarch, though already destroyed, is poetically addressed.Because.
Matt. 23:12• 12And whoever shall exalt himself shall be humbled, and whoever shall humble himself shall be exalted. (Matt. 23:12)
and his.
Ezek. 31:14• 14to the end that none of all the trees by the waters exalt themselves for their height, neither shoot up their top among the thick boughs, neither their trees stand up in their height, all that drink water: for they are all delivered unto death, to the nether parts of the earth, in the midst of the children of men, with them that go down to the pit. (Ezek. 31:14)
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Ezek. 28:17• 17Thine heart was lifted up because of thy beauty, thou hast corrupted thy wisdom by reason of thy brightness: I will cast thee to the ground, I will lay thee before kings, that they may behold thee. (Ezek. 28:17)
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2 Chron. 25:19• 19Thou thinkest, Lo, thou hast smitten Edom; and thy heart has lifted thee up to boast: abide now at home; why shouldest thou contend with misfortune, that thou shouldest fall, thou and Judah with thee? (2 Chron. 25:19)
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2 Chron. 32:25• 25But Hezekiah rendered not again according to the benefit done unto him; for his heart was lifted up; and there was wrath upon him, and upon Judah and Jerusalem. (2 Chron. 32:25)
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Job 11:11‑12• 11For he knoweth men of vanity,{HR}And seeth wickedness without considering [it].
 12But empty man would be wise,{HR}Yet is man born a wild ass’s colt. (Job 11:11‑12)
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Prov. 16:18• 18Pride [goeth] before destruction;{HR}And a haughty spirit before a fall. (Prov. 16:18)
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Prov. 18:12• 12Before destruction the heart of man is haughty,{HR}and before honour [is] humility. (Prov. 18:12)
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Isa. 14:13‑15• 13And thou saidst in thine heart, I will ascend into the heavens, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God; and I will sit upon the mount of assembly, in the recesses of the north;
 14I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the Most High.
 15Yet thou shalt be brought down to Sheol, to the recesses of the pit. (Isa. 14:13‑15)
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Dan. 4:30• 30The king spake, and said, Is not this great Babylon, that I have built for the house of the kingdom by the might of my power, and for the honour of my majesty? (Dan. 4:30)
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Dan. 5:20• 20But when his heart was lifted up, and his spirit hardened unto presumption, he was deposed from the throne of his kingdom, and they took his glory from him; (Dan. 5:20)
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Obad. 3• 3The pride of thine heart hath deceived thee, thou that dwellest in the clefts of the rock, whose habitation is high; —he that saith in his heart, Who shall bring me down to the ground? (Obad. 3)
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James 4:6• 6But he giveth more grace; wherefore he saith, God setteth himself against haughty [men], but giveth grace to lowly. (James 4:6)

J. N. Darby Translation

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Therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Because thou hast lifted up thyself in stature, … and he hath set his top amidst the thick boughs, and his heart is lifted up in his height,

W. Kelly Translation

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Therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah; Because thou hast lifted up thyself in height, and he hath shot up his top among the thick boughs, and his heart is lifted up in his height;