King James Version
Ezekiel 19:6 in the King James Version says “And he went up and down among the lions, he became a young lion, and learned to catch the prey, and devoured men.” — study this verse from Ezekiel chapter 19 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“And he went up and down among the lions, he became a young lion, and learned to catch the prey, and devoured men.”
Ezekiel 19:6 · KJV
The nations also heard of him; he was taken in their pit, and they brought him with chains unto the land of Egypt.
Now when she saw that she had waited, and her hope was lost, then she took another of her whelps, and made him a young lion.
And he went up and down among the lions, he became a young lion, and learned to catch the prey, and devoured men.
And he knew their desolate palaces, and he laid waste their cities; and the land was desolate, and the fulness thereof, by the noise of his roaring. their desolate: or, their widows the fulness: or, all it containeth
Then the nations set against him on every side from the provinces, and spread their net over him: he was taken in their pit.
KJV Study — Public Domain
“And he went up and down”
H1980to walk (in a great variety of applications, literally and figuratively)
“he became a young lion”
H3715a village (as covered in by walls); also a young lion (perhaps as covered with a mane)
to exist, i.e., be or become, come to pass (always emphatic, and not a mere copula or auxiliary)
“and learned”
H3925properly, to goad, i.e., (by implication) to teach (the rod being an middle eastern incentive)
“to catch”
H2963to pluck off or pull to pieces; causatively to supply with food (as in morsels)
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