Ezekiel 19:2
King James Version
9 Jun 2026
“And say, What is thy mother? A lioness: she lay down among lions, she nourished her whelps among young lions.”
מָה
properly, interrogative what? (including how? why? when?); but also exclamation, what! (including how!), or indefinitely what (including whatever, and even relatively, that which); often used with prefixes in various adverbial or conjunctive senses
רָבַץ
she lay down
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רָבַץ
to crouch (on all four legs folded, like a recumbent animal); be implication, to recline, repose, brood, lurk, imbed
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כְּפִיר
young lions
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כְּפִיר
a village (as covered in by walls); also a young lion (perhaps as covered with a mane)
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לָבִיא
a lioness
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לָבִיא
to roar; a lion (properly, a lioness as the fiercer (although not a roarer;))
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גּוּר
cubs/ her
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גּוּר
a cub (as still abiding in the lair), especially of the lion
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רָבָה
she reared
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רָבָה
to increase (in whatever respect)
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