He went up and down among the lions; he became a young lion, and he learned to catch the prey; he devoured men.
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He went up and down among the lions; he became a young lion, and he learned to catch the prey; he devoured men.
And he went up and down among the lions, he became a young lion, and learned to catch the prey, and devoured men.
This young lion roamed about in the midst of lions. He was a young lion and learned to tear his victims; he devoured men.
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He went up and down among the lions; he became a young lion, and he learned to catch the prey; he devoured men.
He prowled among the lions, and became a young lion. After learning to tear his prey, he devoured men.
He prowled among the lions, and became a young lion. After learning to tear his prey, he devoured men.
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 went up and down among the lions; he became a young lion, and he learned to catch the prey; he devoured men.
And he went up and down among the lions, he became a young lion: and he learned to catch the prey, he devoured men.
Which went among the lyons, and became a lyon, and learned to catch the praye, and he deuoured men.
And he went up and down among the lions, and became a lion: and he learned to catch the prey, and to devour men.
And it goeth up and down in the midst of lions, A young lion it hath been, And it learneth to tear prey, man it hath devoured.
And he goes up and down in the midst of lions, || He has been a young lion, || And he learns to tear prey, || He has devoured man.
This young lion roamed about in the midst of lions. He was a young lion and learned to tear his victims; he devoured men.
This young lion roamed about in the midst of lions. He was a young lion and learned to tear his victims; he devoured men.
And he went up and down among the lions; he became a young lion, and learned to catch the prey; he devoured men.
He went up and down among the lions. He became a young lion. He learned to catch the prey. He devoured men.
And he went up and down among the lions, he became a young lion, and learned to catch the prey, and devoured men.
He went around with the other lions, and became strong. Once he had learned how to tear up his prey, he started eating people.
And he went up and down among the lions and became a young lion, learning to go after beasts for his food; and he took men for his meat.
And he went up and down among the lions, he became a young lion; and he learned to catch the prey, he devoured men.
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Notable vocabulary
The rarest word here is טֶ֖רֶף prey H2964 — appearing just 23 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.
Shared distinctive vocabulary
טֶ֖רֶף prey H2964 occurs in 23 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:
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Verb forms
Hebrew & Septuagint length
In English translation the verse runs 23 words from the Hebrew and 23 from the Septuagint (LXX English) — the same length.
A rough comparison of the two English renderings, which tokenize alike — not a word-level alignment.
Word counts can differ between the Hebrew and the Greek without any difference in meaning — e.g. the Hebrew direct-object marker אֵת has no separate Greek word, and Greek often adds the article ὁ.
In the original languages it is 10 Hebrew tokens and 13 Greek tokens — but the two are counted differently (Hebrew bundles its prefixes and suffixes into one token; the Greek is in lemma form), so that isn’t a like-for-like length.
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The same verse in the two great witnesses to the Old Testament, shown verse-for-verse.
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וַיִּתְהַלֵּ֥ךְ בְּתוֹךְ אֲרָי֖וֹת כְּפִ֣יר הָיָ֑ה וַיִּלְמַ֥ד לִטְרָף טֶ֖רֶף אָדָ֥ם אָכָֽל
He went up and down among the lions; he became a young lion, and he learned to catch the prey; he devoured men.
World English Bible · Public Domain
καί ἀναστρέφω ἐν μέσος λέων λέων γίγνομαι καί μανθάνω ἁρπάζω ἅρπαγμα ἄνθρωπος ἐσθίω
And he went up and down in the midst of lions, he became a lion, and learned to take prey, he devoured men.
LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) · Public Domain
Hebrew: Westminster Leningrad Codex (CC BY 4.0). Greek: Septuagint (public domain); English from LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) (Public Domain). How the Septuagint differs from the Hebrew →
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וְהַלֵיךְ בְּגוֹ מַלְכַיָא מַלְכָּא הֲוָה וַאֲלֵיף לְמִקְטַל קְטוֹל אֱנָשָׁא קְטָל:
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Targum Jonathan — Aramaic: “Mikraot Gedolot” (public domain). English: “Sefaria Community Translation” (CC0 1.0 (public-domain dedication)); “London "Chaldee Paraphrase," 1871” (public domain). Text via Sefaria.
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Ezekiel, in the Prophets, opens this verse with 10 words (10 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is ṭereph (“prey”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Commentary
Notes on Ezekiel 19:6 from classic Christian and Jewish commentators (each source and its license shown beneath its notes). The classic Christian expositions comment on the surrounding passage and are grouped to its opening verse, so a note may address several verses; the Jewish commentaries on the Tanakh (Rashi and others) are per-verse, so they appear only where the commentator wrote on this verse.
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Trapp's Complete Commentary
John Trapp
John Trapp, A Commentary or Exposition upon All the Books of the Old and New Testament (1647–1656) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
Geneva Bible (1599)
Geneva Bible translators
Geneva Bible (1599) marginal notes — public domain. Text via Bolls.life.
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown — Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.
Adam Clarke's Commentary
Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible (1810–1826) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.
John Calvin's Commentaries
John Calvin's Commentaries (1540-1563) — public domain. Text from the Calvin Translation Society English edition (1840s-50s) via the Christian Classics Ethereal Library (ccel.org). Calvin's coverage is partial (roughly two-thirds of the Bible); uncommented books and verses are honest gaps, never fabricated. The 19th-century editor's footnotes and remarks are omitted so the notes are faithfully Calvin's own voice.
John Gill's Exposition
John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible (1746–1763) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.
Matthew Poole's English Annotations
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible (1683–1685) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.
John Wesley's Explanatory Notes
John Wesley, Explanatory Notes Upon the Whole Bible (1754–1765) — public domain. Text via the GEBible commentary corpus.