King James Version
Ezekiel 23:14 in the King James Version says “And that she increased her whoredoms: for when she saw men pourtrayed upon the wall, the images of the Chaldeans pourtra...” — study this verse from Ezekiel chapter 23 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“And that she increased her whoredoms: for when she saw men pourtrayed upon the wall, the images of the Chaldeans pourtrayed with vermilion,”
Ezekiel 23:14 · KJV
She doted upon the Assyrians her neighbours, captains and rulers clothed most gorgeously, horsemen riding upon horses, all of them desirable young men.
Then I saw that she was defiled, that they took both one way,
And that she increased her whoredoms: for when she saw men pourtrayed upon the wall, the images of the Chaldeans pourtrayed with vermilion,
Girded with girdles upon their loins, exceeding in dyed attire upon their heads, all of them princes to look to, after the manner of the Babylonians of Chaldea, the land of their nativity:
And as soon as she saw them with her eyes, she doted upon them, and sent messengers unto them into Chaldea. as soon: Heb. at the sight of her eyes
KJV Study — Public Domain
“And that she increased”
H3254to add or augment (often adverbial, to continue to do a thing)
“for when she saw”
H7200to see, literally or figuratively (in numerous applications, direct and implied, transitive, intransitive and causative)
a man as an individual or a male person; often used as an adjunct to a more definite term (and in such cases frequently not expressed in translation)
above, over, upon, or against (yet always in this last relation with a downward aspect) in a great variety of applications
“the images”
H6754a phantom, i.e., (figuratively) illusion, resemblance; hence, a representative figure, especially an idol
“of the Chaldeans”
H3778a kasdite, or descendant of kesed; by implication, a chaldaean (as if so descended); also an astrologer (as if proverbial of that people
“pourtrayed”
H2710properly, to hack, i.e., engrave (judges 5:14, to be a scribe simply); by implication, to enact (laws being cut in stone or metal tablets in primitive
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