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Ezekiel 16:33

Men give gifts to all their prostitutes, but you gave gifts to all your lovers. You bribed them to come to you from everywhere for your illicit favors.

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ASV

They give gifts to all harlots; but thou givest thy gifts to all thy lovers, and bribest them, that they may come unto thee on every side for thy whoredoms.

KJV

They give gifts to all whores: but thou givest thy gifts to all thy lovers, and hirest them, that they may come unto thee on every side for thy whoredom.

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Original language & word study

16 tagged words
OriginalTransliterationMeaningWord study
לְכָל־le.kholto allH3605 →
זֹנ֖וֹתzo.NotprostitutesH2181 →
יִתְּנוּ־yi.te.nu-men giveH5414 →
נֵ֑דֶהNe.deha giftH5078 →
וְאַ֨תְּve.'Atand youH859 →
נָתַ֤תְּna.Tatyou have givenH5414 →
אֶת־'et-<obj.>H853 →
נְדָנַ֙יִךְ֙ne.da.Na.yikhgift yourH5083 →
לְכָל־le.kholto allH3605 →
מְאַֽהֲבַ֔יִךְme.'a.ha.Va.yikhlovers yourH157 →
וַתִּשְׁחֳדִ֣יva.tish.cho.Diand you have bribedH7809 →
אוֹתָ֗ם'o.Tam<obj.> themH853 →
לָב֥וֹאla.Vo'to comeH935 →
אֵלַ֛יִךְ'e.La.yikhto youH413 →
מִסָּבִ֖יבmi.sa.Vivfrom round aboutH5439 →
בְּתַזְנוּתָֽיִךְ׃be.taz.nu.Ta.yikhby prostitution<s> yourH8457 →

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1 Timothy 6:10For the love of money is the root of all kinds of evil. By craving it, some have wandered away from the faith and pierced themselves with many sorrows.Isaiah 57:9You went to Molech with oil and multiplied your perfumes. You have sent your envoys a great distance; you have descended even to Sheol itself.Hosea 8:9–10For they have gone up to Assyria like a wild donkey on its own. Ephraim has hired lovers.Genesis 38:17“I will send you a young goat from my flock,” Judah answered. But she replied, “Only if you leave me something as a pledge until you send it.”Luke 15:30But when this son of yours returns from squandering your wealth with prostitutes, you kill the fattened calf for him!’Deuteronomy 23:17–18No daughter or son of Israel is to be a shrine prostitute.Micah 1:7All her carved images will be smashed to pieces; all her wages will be burned in the fire, and I will destroy all her idols. Since she collected the wages of a prostitute, they will be used again on a prostitute.Joel 3:3They cast lots for My people; they bartered a boy for a prostitute and sold a girl for wine to drink.Isaiah 30:6–7This is the burden against the beasts of the Negev: Through a land of hardship and distress, of lioness and lion, of viper and flying serpent, they carry their wealth on the backs of donkeys and their treasures on the humps of camels, to a people of no profit to them.Genesis 38:16–18Not realizing that she was his daughter-in-law, he went over to her and said, “Come now, let me sleep with you.” “What will you give me for sleeping with you?” she inquired.Isaiah 30:3But Pharaoh’s protection will become your shame, and the refuge of Egypt’s shade your disgrace.Ezekiel 16:41Then they will burn down your houses and execute judgment against you in the sight of many women. I will put an end to your prostitution, and you will never again pay your lovers.Hosea 2:12I will destroy her vines and fig trees, which she thinks are the wages paid by her lovers. So I will make them into a thicket, and the beasts of the field will devour them.Deuteronomy 23:18You must not bring the wages of a prostitute, whether female or male, into the house of the LORD your God to fulfill any vow, because both are detestable to the LORD your God.Isaiah 1:4Alas, O sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a brood of evildoers, children of depravity! They have forsaken the LORD; they have despised the Holy One of Israel and turned their backs on Him.Proverbs 7:13She seizes him and kisses him; she brazenly says to him:Genesis 38:16Not realizing that she was his daughter-in-law, he went over to her and said, “Come now, let me sleep with you.” “What will you give me for sleeping with you?” she inquired.

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About Ezekiel

The Prophet Ezekiel — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
The Prophet Ezekiel — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
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