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Ezekiel 26:4

And they shall destroy the walls of Tyrus, and break down her towers: I will also scrape her dust from her, and make her like the top of a rock.

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וְשִׁחֲת֞וּveshichatvand batterשָׁחַתconjunction, verb, piel, sequential perfect, 3rd person, common, plural — “and batter”, a completed action in a sequenceH7843to decay, i.e. (causatively) ruin (literally or figuratively)batter, cast off, corrupt(-er, thing), destroy(-er, -uction), lose, mar, perish, spill, spoiler, [idiom] utterly, waste(-r).חֹמ֣וֹתchomotwallחוֹמָהnoun, common, feminine, plural, construct — “wall”, the of-form, joined to the next wordH2346a wall of protectionwall, walled.צֹ֗רtsorTyreצֹרnoun, proper name — “Tyre”H6865Tsor, a place in PalestineTyre, Tyrus.וְהָֽרְסוּ֙veharesvand breakהָרַסconjunction, verb, qal, sequential perfect, 3rd person, common, plural — “and break”, a completed action in a sequenceH2040to pull down or in pieces, break, destroybeat down, break (down, through), destroy, overthrow, pluck down, pull down, ruin, throw down, [idiom] utterly.מִגְדָּלֶ֔יהָmigdaleyhacastleמִגְדָּלnoun, common, both genders, plural, construct, suffix, pronominal, 3rd person, feminine, singular — “castle”, the of-form, joined to the next wordH4026a tower (from its size or height); by analogy, a rostrum; figuratively, a (pyramidal) bed of flowerscastle, flower, tower. Compare the names following.וְסִֽחֵיתִ֥יvesicheytiand scrapeסָחָהconjunction, verb, piel, sequential perfect, 1st person, common, singular — “and scrape”, a completed action in a sequenceH5500to sweep awayscrape.עֲפָרָ֖הּafarahdustעָפָרnoun, common, masculine, singular, construct, suffix, pronominal, 3rd person, feminine, singular — “dust”, the of-form, joined to the next wordH6083dust (as powdered or gray); hence, clay, earth, mudashes, dust, earth, ground, morter, powder, rubbish.מִמֶּ֑נָּהmimenahfromמִןpreposition, suffix, pronominal, 3rd person, feminine, singular — “from”H4480properly, a part of; hence (prepositionally), from or out of in many sensesabove, after, among, at, because of, by (reason of), from (among), in, [idiom] neither, [idiom] nor, (out) of, over, since, [idiom] then, through, [idiom] whether, with.וְנָתַתִּ֥יvenatatiand giveנָתַןconjunction, verb, qal, sequential perfect, 1st person, common, singular — “and give”, a completed action in a sequenceH5414to give, used with greatest latitude of application (put, make, etc.)add, apply, appoint, ascribe, assign, [idiom] avenge, [idiom] be (healed), bestow, bring (forth, hither), cast, cause, charge, come, commit, consider, count, [phrase] cry, deliver (up), direct, distribute, do, [idiom] doubtless, [idiom] wi…אוֹתָ֖הּotahobject markerאֵתparticle, direct object marker, suffix, pronominal, 3rd person, feminine, singular — “object marker”H853properly, self (but generally used to point out more definitely the object of a verb or preposition, even or namely)(as such unrepresented in English).לִצְחִ֥יחַlitschichato higher placeצְחִיחַpreposition, noun, common, masculine, singular, construct — “to higher place”, the of-form, joined to the next wordH6706glaring, i.e. exposed to the bright sunhigher place, top.סָֽלַעsalarockסֶלַעnoun, common, masculine, singular, absolute — “rock”, the ordinary formH5553a craggy rock, literally or figuratively (a fortress)(ragged) rock, stone(-ny), strong hold.

Jewish translation (JPS 1917)

And they shall destroy the walls of Tyre, and break down her towers; I will also scrape her dust from her, and make her a bare rock.

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American Standard Version (1901)

And they shall destroy the walls of Tyre, and break down her towers: I will also scrape her dust from her, and make her a bare rock.

Young’s Literal Translation

And they have destroyed the walls of Tyre, And they have broken down her towers, And I have scraped her dust from her, And made her for a clear place of a rock.

World English Bible

They will destroy the walls of Tyre, and break down her towers. I will also scrape her dust from her, and make her a bare rock.

Darby Translation

And they shall destroy the walls of Tyre, and break down her towers. And I will scrape her dust from her, and make her a bare rock.

Douay-Rheims

And they shall break down the walls of Tyre, and destroy the towers thereof: and I will scrape her dust from her, and make her like a smooth rock.

Jewish Publication Society (1917)

And they shall destroy the walls of Tyre, and break down her towers; I will also scrape her dust from her, and make her a bare rock.

Brenton’s Septuagint (1851), English

And they shall cast down the walls of Sor, and shall cast down thy towers: and I will scrape her dust from off her, and make her a bare rock.

Septuagint (Brenton’s Greek, 1851)

Καὶ καταβαλοῦσι τὰ τείχη Σὸρ, καὶ καταβαλοῦσι τοὺς πύργους σου, καὶ λικμήσω τὸν χοῦν αὐτῆς ἀπʼ αὐτῆς, καὶ δώσω αὐτὴν εἰς λεωπετρίαν·