King James Version
Ezekiel 23:5 in the King James Version says “And Aholah played the harlot when she was mine; and she doted on her lovers, on the Assyrians her neighbours,” — study this verse from Ezekiel chapter 23 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“And Aholah played the harlot when she was mine; and she doted on her lovers, on the Assyrians her neighbours,”
Ezekiel 23:5 · KJV
And they committed whoredoms in Egypt; they committed whoredoms in their youth: there were their breasts pressed, and there they bruised the teats of their virginity.
And the names of them were Aholah the elder, and Aholibah her sister: and they were mine, and they bare sons and daughters. Thus were their names; Samaria is Aholah, and Jerusalem Aholibah. Aholah: that is, His tent, or, tabernacle Aholibah: that is, My tabernacle in her
And Aholah played the harlot when she was mine; and she doted on her lovers, on the Assyrians her neighbours,
Which were clothed with blue, captains and rulers, all of them desirable young men, horsemen riding upon horses.
Thus she committed her whoredoms with them, with all them that were the chosen men of Assyria, and with all on whom she doted: with all their idols she defiled herself. committed: Heb. bestowed her whoredoms upon them the chosen: Heb. the choice of the children of Asshur
KJV Study — Public Domain
“played the harlot”
H2181to commit adultery (usually of the female, and less often of simple fornication, rarely of involuntary ravishment); figuratively, to commit idolatry (
“when she was mine”
H8478the bottom (as depressed); only adverbially, below (often with prepositional prefix underneath), in lieu of, etc
above, over, upon, or against (yet always in this last relation with a downward aspect) in a great variety of applications
“on the Assyrians”
H804ashshur, the second son of shem; also his descendants and the country occupied by them (i.e., assyria), its region and its empire
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