who were clothed with blue, governors and rulers, all of them desirable young men, horsemen riding on horses.
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who were clothed with blue, governors and rulers, all of them desirable young men, horsemen riding on horses.
Which were clothed with blue, captains and rulers, all of them desirable young men, horsemen riding upon horses.
the governor who wore blue, and for his officials, who were strong and handsome, all of them men riding on horses.
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Every available English version of this verse, each an independent rendering of the whole verse.
who were clothed with blue, governors and rulers, all of them desirable young men, horsemen riding on horses.
clothed in blue, governors and commanders, all desirable young men, horsemen mounted on steeds.
clothed in blue, governors and commanders, all desirable young men, horsemen mounted on steeds.
Which were clothed with blue, captains and rulers, all of them desirable young men, horsemen riding upon horses.
who were clothed with blue, governors and rulers, all of them desirable young men, horsemen riding upon horses.
which were clothed with blue, governors and rulers, all of them desirable young men, horsemen riding upon horses.
Which were clothed with blewe silke, both captaines and princes: they were all pleasant yong men, and horsemen riding vpon horses.
Who were clothed with blue, princes, and rulers, beautiful youths, all horsemen, mounted upon horses.
Clothed with blue -- governors and prefects, Desirable young men all of them, Horsemen, riding on horses,
Clothed with blue—governors and prefects, || All of them desirable young men, || Horsemen, riding on horses,
the governor who wore blue, and for his officials, who were strong and handsome, all of them men riding on horses.
the governor who wore blue, and for his officials, who were strong and handsome, all of them men riding on horses.
clothed with blue, governors and rulers, all of them attractive young men, horsemen riding upon horses.
who were clothed with blue—governors and rulers, all of them desirable young men, horsemen riding on horses.
Who were clothed with blue, captains and rulers, all of them desirable young men, horsemen riding upon horses.
They were soldiers dressed in blue, leaders and commanders, all of them handsome young men in the cavalry.
Who were clothed in blue, captains and rulers, all of them young men to be desired, horsemen seated on horses.
clothed with blue, governors and rulers, handsome young men all of them, horsemen riding upon horses.
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Notable vocabulary
The rarest word here is חֶ֖מֶד desire H2531 — appearing just 6 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.
Shared distinctive vocabulary
חֶ֖מֶד desire H2531 occurs in 6 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:
Grammatical profile
Verb forms
Hebrew & Septuagint length
In English translation the verse runs 18 words from the Hebrew and 17 from the Septuagint (LXX English) — closely comparable.
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 12 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.
These are two independent witnesses, not word-aligned to each other, and the Septuagint is shown in lemma (dictionary) form.
לְבֻשֵׁ֤י תְכֵ֨לֶת֙ פַּח֣וֹת וּסְגָנִ֔ים בַּח֥וּרֵי חֶ֖מֶד כֻּלָּ֑ם פָּרָשִׁ֕ים רֹכְבֵ֖י סוּסִֽים
who were clothed with blue, governors and rulers, all of them desirable young men, horsemen riding on horses.
World English Bible · Public Domain
ἐνδύω ὑακίνθινος ἡγέομαι καί στρατηγός νεανίσκος ἐπίλεκτος πᾶς ἱππεύς ἱππάζομαι ἐπί ἵππος
clothed with purple, princes and captains; they were young men and choice, all horseman riding on horses.
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 →
The Targum is the ancient Jewish Aramaic paraphrase of the Hebrew Scriptures — an interpretive translation, not the Hebrew text itself. Onkelos (literal) and Pseudo-Jonathan (expansive) render the Torah, and Jonathan the Prophets. Coverage is partial: where no permissively-licensed English translation exists for a verse, only the Aramaic is shown. This is verse-level text, not a word-by-word alignment to the Hebrew.
לְבוּשֵׁי גְמִיר שִׁלְטוֹנִין וְטוּרָנִין עוּלֵימֵי חֶמְדָתָא כּוּלְהוֹן פָּרָשִׁין רָכְבֵי סוּסְוָן:
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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 chemed (“desire”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Commentary
Notes on Ezekiel 23:6 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.
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.
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers
A Bible Commentary for English Readers, edited by Charles John Ellicott (1878–1897) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges (gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne; Cambridge University Press, 1878–1918) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
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.
Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible (1834–1885) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.
Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary
George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), Haydock's Catholic Family Bible and Commentary, 1859 edition — public domain. Excludes Psalms (Douay-Rheims chapter numbering differs from Protestant) and Deuterocanonical books (Catholic canon only).
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.
Whedon's Commentary on the Bible
Daniel D. Whedon
Daniel D. Whedon (gen. ed.), Commentary on the Old and New Testaments (1874–1909) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
The Pulpit Commentary
The Pulpit Commentary (1880–1919), ed. H.D.M. Spence-Jones & Joseph S. Exell — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
John Wesley's Explanatory Notes
John Wesley, Explanatory Notes Upon the Whole Bible (1754–1765) — public domain. Text via the GEBible commentary corpus.