Ezekiel 19:5
King James Version
8 Jun 2026
“Now when she saw that she had waited, and her hope was lost, then she took another of her whelps, and made him a young lion.”
תִּקְוָה
Hope, expectation. Tiqvah. A cord stretched taut with expectation. The same word as the scarlet cord Rahab hung from her window. God gives you a cord to hold.
שׂוּם
she made/ it
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שׂוּם
To put, to set, to place. Shuwm. I have set the LORD always before me. A deliberate daily choice to keep God at the centre of everything.
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יָחַל
she waited
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יָחַל
To hope, to wait, to look for. Yachal. Hope in God. Confident anticipation of His intervention not passive resignation.
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כְּפִיר
a young lion
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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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