Ezekiel 27:5
in Ezekiel 27They constructed all your planking with cypress from Senir. They took a cedar from Lebanon to make a mast for you.
BSB
The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
They have made all thy planks of fir-trees from Senir; they have taken a cedar from Lebanon to make a mast for thee.
KJV
They have made all thy ship boards of fir trees of Senir: they have taken cedars from Lebanon to make masts for thee.
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This verse in Ezekiel 27
Commentary
8 notes on this verseThey have made all thy ship boards of fir trees of Senir,.... The same with Sion and Hermon, which the Sidonians called Sirion, and the Amorites Shenir, Deu 3:9 here, it seems, grew the best of fir trees, of which the Tyrians made boards and planks for shipping; of these the two sides of the ship, as the word (r) here used in the dual number is thought to signify, or the fore and hind decks, were made.
This site's exposition
thy builders have perfected thy beauty
on Ezekiel 27:4-7
The chapter's long central section pictures Tyre itself as a magnificent ship, built from the resources of the whole known world: fir boards from Senir, cedar masts from Lebanon, oars from the oaks of Bashan, benches inlaid with ivory from the isles of Chittim. The sail is fine linen from Egypt, and the covering is blue and purple from the isles of Elishah, royal dye goods that mark the vessel as ceremonial as much as functional. Keil reads the ship figure as deliberate, a trading city pictured as its own finest export, assembled piece by piece from every nation it did business with.
The record, by era
The Church Fathers1 voice
(Verse 4, 5.) Your neighbors who built you have filled your beauty. They built you with Sanir fir trees and all the planks of the sea. They brought cedar from Lebanon to make harm to you. For what reason, I do not know, they translated it thus in the Septuagint: The sons of Beelim surrounded your beauty; the cedar of Sanir was built for you; they brought thin cypress planks from Lebanon to make harm to you with fir.
The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices
), which is designed to make its ruin the more lamentable. A prediction of its fall and ruin, and the confusion and consternation which all its neighbours shall thereby be put into,
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. [3.] They had oaks from Bashan ( Isa. ii. 13 ), to make oars of; for it is probable that their ships were mostly galleys, that go with oars. The people of Israel built few ships for themselves, but they furnished the Tyrians with timber for shipping.
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The Nineteenth Century2 voices
Fir trees of Senir - Senir is a mountain which the Sidonians called Sirion, and the Hebrews Hermon, Deu 3:9. It was beyond Jordan, and extended from Libanus to the mountains of Gilead.
A commentator
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown1802–1910
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)
proposed
Senir--the Amorite name of Hermon, or the southern height of Anti-libanus (De 3:9); the Sidonian name was Sirion. "All thy . . . boards"; dual in Hebrew, "double-boards," namely, placed in a double order on the two sides of which the ship consisted [VATABLUS].
1 more voice on this verse
The Nineteenth Century1 voice
A commentator
Albert Barnes1798–1870
Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)
proposed
Fir-trees (or, cypress) of Senir - The name by which the Amorites knew Mount Hermon.
The words behind it
13 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| בְּרוֹשִׁ֤ים | beroshim | fir trees | H1265 → | |
| מִשְּׂנִיר֙ | misenir | from Senir | H8149 → | |
| בָּ֣נוּ | banu | they built | H1129 → | 376 times |
| לָ֔ךְ | lakh | of you | ||
| אֵ֖ת | ʾet | <obj.> | H853 → | 10935 times |
| כָּל־ | kol- | all | H3605 → | 5413 times |
| לֻֽחֹתָ֑יִם | luchotayim | planks | H3871 → | |
| אֶ֤רֶז | ʾerez | a cedar | H730 → | 73 times |
| מִלְּבָנוֹן֙ | milevanon | from Lebanon | H3844 → | 71 times |
| לָקָ֔חוּ | lakachu | they took | H3947 → | 966 times |
| לַעֲשׂ֥וֹת | laasot | to make | H6213 → | 2628 times |
| תֹּ֖רֶן | toren | a mast | H8650 → | |
| עָלָֽיִךְ׃ | ʾalayikh | on you | H5921 → | 5755 times |
בְּרוֹשִׁ֤יםfir trees
beroshimH1265 →
מִשְּׂנִיר֙from Senir
misenirH8149 →
בָּ֣נוּthey built
banuH1129 →376 times
לָ֔ךְof you
lakh
אֵ֖ת<obj.>
ʾetH853 →10935 times
כָּל־all
kol-H3605 →5413 times
לֻֽחֹתָ֑יִםplanks
luchotayimH3871 →
אֶ֤רֶזa cedar
ʾerezH730 →73 times
מִלְּבָנוֹן֙from Lebanon
milevanonH3844 →71 times
לָקָ֔חוּthey took
lakachuH3947 →966 times
לַעֲשׂ֥וֹתto make
laasotH6213 →2628 times
תֹּ֖רֶןa mast
torenH8650 →
עָלָֽיִךְ׃on you
ʾalayikhH5921 →5755 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 stopsEach card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.
Through
Psalms 104:16The trees of the LORD have their fill, the cedars of Lebanon that He planted,
it leads to
- Psalms 29:5
The voice of the LORD breaks the cedars; the LORD shatters the cedars of Lebanon.
Reached by 2 separate paths from here.
- Numbers 24:6
They spread out like palm groves, like gardens beside a stream, like aloes the LORD has planted, like cedars beside the waters.
- Psalms 92:2
to proclaim Your loving devotion in the morning and Your faithfulness at night
- Ezekiel 17:23
I will plant it on the mountain heights of Israel so that it will bear branches; it will yield fruit and become a majestic cedar. Birds of every kind will nest under it, taking…
- Psalms 29:5
Through
Deuteronomy 3:9which the Sidonians call Sirion but the Amorites call Senir—
it leads to
- 1 Chronicles 5:23
Now the people of the half-tribe of Manasseh were numerous. They settled in the land from Bashan to Baal-hermon (that is, Senir, also known as Mount Hermon).
Reached by 2 separate paths from here.
- Psalms 29:6
He makes Lebanon skip like a calf, and Sirion like a young wild ox.
- 1 Chronicles 5:23
Through
Song of Solomon 4:8Come with me from Lebanon, my bride, come with me from Lebanon! Descend from the peak of Amana, from the summits of Senir and Hermon, from the dens of the lions, from the mountains…
it leads to
- Deuteronomy 3:9
which the Sidonians call Sirion but the Amorites call Senir—
- Song of Solomon 2:13
The fig tree ripens its figs; the blossoming vines spread their fragrance. Arise, come away, my darling; come away with me, my beautiful one.”
- Deuteronomy 3:9
About Ezekiel

This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Carl Friedrich Keil, Biblical Commentary on the Prophecies of Ezekiel; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; Jerome, Commentary on Ezekiel; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.
