King James Version
Ezekiel 16:44 in the King James Version says “Behold, every one that useth proverbs shall use this proverb against thee, saying, As is the mother, so is her daughter.” — study this verse from Ezekiel chapter 16 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“Behold, every one that useth proverbs shall use this proverb against thee, saying, As is the mother, so is her daughter.”
Ezekiel 16:44 · KJV
So will I make my fury toward thee to rest, and my jealousy shall depart from thee, and I will be quiet, and will be no more angry.
Because thou hast not remembered the days of thy youth, but hast fretted me in all these things; behold, therefore I also will recompense thy way upon thine head, saith the Lord GOD: and thou shalt not commit this lewdness above all thine abominations.
Behold, every one that useth proverbs shall use this proverb against thee, saying, As is the mother, so is her daughter.
Thou art thy mother's daughter, that lotheth her husband and her children; and thou art the sister of thy sisters, which lothed their husbands and their children: your mother was an Hittite, and your father an Amorite.
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. thy younger: Heb. lesser than thou
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properly, the whole; hence, all, any or every (in the singular only, but often in a plural sense)
“Behold every one that useth proverbs”
H4911to liken, i.e., (transitively) to use figurative language (an allegory, adage, song or the like); intransitively, to resemble
above, over, upon, or against (yet always in this last relation with a downward aspect) in a great variety of applications
“Behold every one that useth proverbs”
H4911to liken, i.e., (transitively) to use figurative language (an allegory, adage, song or the like); intransitively, to resemble
“As is the mother”
H517a mother (as the bond of the family); in a wide sense (both literally and figuratively [like father])
“so is her daughter”
H1323a daughter (used in the same wide sense as other terms of relationship, literally and figuratively)
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