King James Version
Ezekiel 19:1 in the King James Version says “Moreover take thou up a lamentation for the princes of Israel,” — study this verse from Ezekiel chapter 19 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“Moreover take thou up a lamentation for the princes of Israel,”
Ezekiel 19:1 · KJV
Moreover take thou up a lamentation for the princes of Israel,
And say, What is thy mother? A lioness: she lay down among lions, she nourished her whelps among young lions.
And she brought up one of her whelps: it became a young lion, and it learned to catch the prey; it devoured men.
KJV Study — Public Domain
“Moreover take thou up”
H5375to lift, in a great variety of applications, literal and figurative, absolute and relative
“for the princes”
H5387properly, an exalted one, i.e., a king or sheik; also a rising mist
“of Israel”
H3478he will rule as god; jisral, a symbolical name of jacob; also (typically) of his posterity
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