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Ezekiel 32:19

Whom dost thou pass in beauty? go down, and be thou laid with the uncircumcised.

KJV

Quo pulchrior es ? descende, et dormi cum incircumcisis.

Vulgate

Whom dost thou pass in beauty? go down, and be thou laid with the uncircumcised.

ASV

מִ/מִּ֖י נָעָ֑מְתָּ רְדָ֥/ה וְ/הָשְׁכְּבָ֖/ה אֶת עֲרֵלִֽים

Hebrew

Whom dost thou excel in beauty? go down and sleep with the uncircumcised.

Douay-Rheims

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In the original Hebrew

6 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.

אֶת
't
preposition · 883×
יִנְעָֽם
yn'm
verb · 8×
יָרְד֥וּ
yrdv
verb · 377×
יִּשְׁכַּ֤ב
yshkb
verb · 211×
מִ֣י
my
particle · 420×
עֲרֵלִ֣ים
'rlym
adjective · 35×

Historic Christian voices

4 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

§633Scripture calls the abode of the dead, to which the dead Christ went down, "hell" - Sheol in Hebrew or Hades in Greek - because those who are there are deprived of the vision of God.479 Such is the case for all the dead, whether evil or righteous, while they await the Redeemer: which does not mean that their lot is identical, as Jesus shows through the parable of the poor man L…

Cross-references

  • Ezek 28:10 — Thou shalt die the deaths of the uncircumcised by the hand of strangers: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord GOD.
  • Ezek 28:10 — Thou shalt die the deaths of the uncircumcised by the hand of strangers: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord GOD.
  • Ezek 31:2 — Son of man, speak unto Pharaoh king of Egypt, and to his multitude; Whom art thou like in thy greatness?
  • Ezek 31:18 — To whom art thou thus like in glory and in greatness among the trees of Eden? yet shalt thou be brought down with the trees of Eden unto the nether parts of the earth: thou shalt lie in the midst of t
  • Ezek 31:18 — To whom art thou thus like in glory and in greatness among the trees of Eden? yet shalt thou be brought down with the trees of Eden unto the nether parts of the earth: thou shalt lie in the midst of t
  • Ezek 32:21 — The strong among the mighty shall speak to him out of the midst of hell with them that help him: they are gone down, they lie uncircumcised, slain by the sword.
  • Ezek 32:21 — The strong among the mighty shall speak to him out of the midst of hell with them that help him: they are gone down, they lie uncircumcised, slain by the sword.
  • Ezek 32:24 — There is Elam and all her multitude round about her grave, all of them slain, fallen by the sword, which are gone down uncircumcised into the nether parts of the earth, which caused their terror in th
  • Ezek 32:29 — There is Edom, her kings, and all her princes, which with their might are laid by them that were slain by the sword: they shall lie with the uncircumcised, and with them that go down to the pit.
  • Jer 9:25 — Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will punish all them which are circumcised with the uncircumcised;