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Ezekiel 27

Ezek. 27:9 KJV (With Strong’s)

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The ancients
zaqen (Hebrew #2205)
old
KJV usage: aged, ancient (man), elder(-est), old (man, men and...women), senator.
Pronounce: zaw-kane'
Origin: from 2204
of Gebal
Gbal (Hebrew #1380)
a mountain; Gebal, a place in Phoenicia
KJV usage: Gebal.
Pronounce: gheb-al'
Origin: from 1379 (in the sense of a chain of hills)
s and the wise
chakam (Hebrew #2450)
wise, (i.e. intelligent, skilful or artful)
KJV usage: cunning (man), subtil, ((un-)), wise((hearted), man).
Pronounce: khaw-kawm'
Origin: from 2449
men thereof were in thee thy νcalkers
chazaq (Hebrew #2388)
to fasten upon; hence, to seize, be strong (figuratively, courageous, causatively strengthen, cure, help, repair, fortify), obstinate; to bind, restrain, conquer
KJV usage: aid, amend, X calker, catch, cleave, confirm, be constant, constrain, continue, be of good (take) courage(-ous, -ly), encourage (self), be established, fasten, force, fortify, make hard, harden, help, (lay) hold (fast), lean, maintain, play the man, mend, become (wax) mighty, prevail, be recovered, repair, retain, seize, be (wax) sore, strengthen (self), be stout, be (make, shew, wax) strong(-er), be sure, take (hold), be urgent, behave self valiantly, withstand.
Pronounce: khaw-zak'
Origin: a primitive root
bedeq (Hebrew #919)
a gap or leak (in a building or a ship)
KJV usage: breach, + calker.
Pronounce: beh'-dek
Origin: from 918
: all the ships
'oniyah (Hebrew #591)
a ship
KJV usage: ship((-men)).
Pronounce: on-ee-yaw'
Origin: feminine of 590
of the sea
yam (Hebrew #3220)
a sea (as breaking in noisy surf) or large body of water; specifically (with the article), the Mediterranean Sea; sometimes a large river, or an artifical basin; locally, the west, or (rarely) the south
KJV usage: sea (X -faring man, (-shore)), south, west (-ern, side, -ward).
Pronounce: yawm
Origin: from an unused root meaning to roar
with their mariners
mallach (Hebrew #4419)
a sailor (as following "the salt")
KJV usage: mariner.
Pronounce: mal-lawkh'
Origin: from 4414 in its second. sense
were in thee to occupy
`arab (Hebrew #6148)
to braid, i.e. intermix; technically, to traffic (as if by barter); also or give to be security (as a kind of exchange)
KJV usage: engage, (inter-)meddle (with), mingle (self), mortgage, occupy, give pledges, be(-come, put in) surety, undertake.
Pronounce: aw-rab'
Origin: a primitive root
thy merchandise
ma`arab (Hebrew #4627)
traffic; by implication, mercantile goods
KJV usage: market, merchandise.
Pronounce: mah-ar-awb'
Origin: from 6148, in the sense of trading
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Psa. 83:7• 7Gebal, and Ammon, and Amalek; the Philistines with the inhabitants of Tyre; (Psa. 83:7)
ν
strengtheners, or, stoppers of chinks.

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Calkers,
Gebal,
Sea,
Ships,
Wise Men

Cross References

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Gebal.
Josh. 13:5• 5And the land of the Giblites, and all Lebanon, toward the sunrising, from Baal-gad under mount Hermon unto the entering into Hamath. (Josh. 13:5)
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1 Kings 5:18• 18And Solomon's builders and Hiram's builders did hew them, and the stonesquarers: so they prepared timber and stones to build the house. (1 Kings 5:18)
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1 Kings 5•  (1 Kings 5)
:*marg:;
Psa. 83:7• 7Gebal, and Ammon, and Amalek; the Philistines with the inhabitants of Tyre; (Psa. 83:7)
calkers.
or, stoppers of chinks.
Heb. strengtheners.
Ezek. 27:27• 27Thy riches, and thy fairs, thy merchandise, thy mariners, and thy pilots, thy calkers, and the occupiers of thy merchandise, and all thy men of war, that are in thee, and in all thy company which is in the midst of thee, shall fall into the midst of the seas in the day of thy ruin. (Ezek. 27:27)

J. N. Darby Translation

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The elders of Gebal and the wiseh men thereof were in thee repairing thy leaksi; all the ships of the sea with their mariners were in thee, to barter with theek.

JND Translation Notes

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h
Or "skilful."
i
Lit. "making fast thy chinks"; perhaps "thy calkers." so ver. 27.
k
Lit. "barter thy barter." so ver. 27.