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Ezekiel 23

Ezek. 23:11 KJV (With Strong’s)

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And when her sister
'achowth (Hebrew #269)
a sister (used very widely (like 250), literally and figuratively)
KJV usage: (an-)other, sister, together.
Pronounce: aw-khoth'
Origin: irregular feminine of 251
Aholibah
'Oholiybah (Hebrew #172)
from 168; my tent (is) in her; Oholibah, a symbolic name for Judah
KJV usage: Aholibah.
Pronounce: o''-hol-ee-baw'
Origin: (similarly with 170) for hOholiybahh {o''-hol-e-baw'}
saw
ra'ah (Hebrew #7200)
to see, literally or figuratively (in numerous applications, direct and implied, transitive, intransitive and causative)
KJV usage: advise self, appear, approve, behold, X certainly, consider, discern, (make to) enjoy, have experience, gaze, take heed, X indeed, X joyfully, lo, look (on, one another, one on another, one upon another, out, up, upon), mark, meet, X be near, perceive, present, provide, regard, (have) respect, (fore-, cause to, let) see(-r, -m, one another), shew (self), X sight of others, (e-)spy, stare, X surely, X think, view, visions.
Pronounce: raw-aw'
Origin: a primitive root
this, she μwas moren corrupt
shachath (Hebrew #7843)
to decay, i.e. (causatively) ruin (literally or figuratively)
KJV usage: batter, cast off, corrupt(-er, thing), destroy(-er, -uction), lose, mar, perish, spill, spoiler, X utterly, waste(-r).
Pronounce: shaw-khath'
Origin: a primitive root
in her inordinate love
`agabah (Hebrew #5691)
love (abstractly), i.e. amorousness
KJV usage: inordinate love.
Pronounce: ag-aw-baw'
Origin: from 5689
than she, and in her whoredoms
taznuwth (Hebrew #8457)
from 2181; harlotry, i.e. (figuratively) idolatry
KJV usage: fornication, whoredom.
Pronounce: taz-nooth'
Origin: or taznuth {taz-nooth'}
more than νher sister
'achowth (Hebrew #269)
a sister (used very widely (like 250), literally and figuratively)
KJV usage: (an-)other, sister, together.
Pronounce: aw-khoth'
Origin: irregular feminine of 251
in her whoredoms
zanuwn (Hebrew #2183)
adultery; figuratively, idolatry
KJV usage: whoredom.
Pronounce: zaw-noon'
Origin: from 2181
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corrupted her inordinate love more.
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2 Chron. 33:9• 9{i}And Manasseh led Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem astray, to do more evil than the nations that Jehovah had destroyed from before the children of Israel.{/i} (2 Chron. 33:9)
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the whoredoms of her sister.

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her sister.
Ezek. 23:4• 4{i}And their names were Oholah the elder, and Oholibah her sister;{/i} they were mine, and they begat sons and daughters. {i}As for their names: Samaria is Oholah, and Jerusalem Oholibah.{/i} (Ezek. 23:4)
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Jer. 3:8• 8{i}And I saw that when for all the causes wherein backsliding Israel committed adultery I had put her away, and given her a bill of divorce, yet the treacherous Judah, her sister, feared not, but went and committed fornication also.{/i} (Jer. 3:8)
was more corrupt in her inordinate love than she.
Heb. shecorrupted her inordinate love more than she.
her sister in her whoredoms.
Heb. the whoredoms of her sister.
Ezek. 16:47‑51• 47Yet hast thou not walked after their ways, nor done after their abominations: but, as if that were a very little thing, thou wast corrupted more than they in all thy ways.
 48As I live, saith the Lord Jehovah, Sodom thy sister hath not done, she nor her daughters, as thou hast done, thou and thy daughters.
 49Behold, this was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom; pride, fullness of bread, and abundance of idleness was in her and in her daughters, neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy.
 50And they were haughty, and committed abomination before me: therefore I took them away as I saw good.
 51Neither hath Samaria committed half of thy sins; but thou hast multiplied thine abominations more than they, and hast justified thy sisters in all thine abominations which thou hast done. (Ezek. 16:47‑51)
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Jer. 3:8‑11• 8{i}And I saw that when for all the causes wherein backsliding Israel committed adultery I had put her away, and given her a bill of divorce, yet the treacherous Judah, her sister, feared not, but went and committed fornication also.{/i}
 9{i}And it came to pass through the lightness of her fornication that she polluted the land, and committed adultery with stones and with stocks.{/i}
 10{i}And even for all this her treacherous sister Judah hath not returned unto me with her whole heart, but with falsehood, saith Jehovah.{/i}
 11{i}And Jehovah said unto me, Backsliding Israel hath shown herself more just than treacherous Judah.{/i} (Jer. 3:8‑11)

J. N. Darby Translation

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And her sister Oholibah saw this, and was more corrupt in her passion than she, and in her fornications more than the whoredoms of her sister.

W. Kelly Translation

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And her sister Oholibah saw this, and was more corrupt in her inordinate love than she, and in her fornications more than the whoredoms of her sister.

WK Verse Note

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(Note: Words in italics have been inserted from the J. N. Darby translation where the W. Kelly translation doesn’t exist.)