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Ezekiel 27 — Sermon Preparation
A lament compares Tyre to a magnificent merchant ship laden with the wealth of nations, now wrecked in the heart of the sea. 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.
- 36
- verses
- 407 / 223
- Hebrew words / lemmas
- 3
- classic sermon excerpts
- 3
- 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.
“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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