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Ezekiel 27 — Sermon Preparation

Below is a research summary for Ezekiel 27, drawn from openly licensed scholarly databases — original-language morphology, classic sermons from the church fathers through the Puritans, and ancient geography data.

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Hebrew words / lemmas
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classic sermon excerpts
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preachers & commentators

Ezekiel 27 in the Hebrew

Distinctive vocabulary of this chapter, based on original-language morphology.

Hebrew Transliteration Strong's Count Glosses
רָכַל râkal H7402 10 travel for trading
מַעֲרָב maʻărâb H4627 9 traffic, mercantile goods
עִזָּבוֹן ʻizzâbôwn H5801 7 trade, place
יָם yâm H3220 10 sea, large body of water
סָחַר çâchar H5503 6 travel round, palpitate
אִי ʼîy H339 5 habitable spot, dry land
חֹבֵל chôbêl H2259 4 sailor

How preachers through history handled this text

3 public-domain excerpts on Ezekiel 27, from the church fathers to the Puritans.

Matthew Henry 1 Spurgeon 1 John Wesley 1

“XXVII A large account of the wealth, splendour and trade of Tyre, ver. 1-25. Its utter ruin, and the consternation of its neighbours, ver. 26-36. 2. A lamentation - We ought to mourn for the miseries of other nations, as well as of our own, out of an affection for mankind in general; yea, tho' they have brought them upon themselves. 3. At the entry - Hebrew. Entrances. She was about four furlongs, or half an English mile from the continent, as it were in the very door of the sea. 5. They - The shipwrights. …”

— John Wesley, Wesley's Notes on the Whole Bible, on Ezekiel 27:2–36 (Public Domain)

Places in the text

Based on ancient-geography data

  • Lud 1 — Ezek 27:10
  • Persia — Ezek 27:10
  • Put — Ezek 27:10
  • Arvad — Ezek 27:11
  • Gamad — Ezek 27:11
  • Helech — Ezek 27:11

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