Ezekiel 31:7

Ezekiel 31:7 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)Thus was he fair in his greatness, in the length of his branches: for his root was by great waters.
• New International Version (NIV)It was majestic in beauty, with its spreading boughs, for its roots went down to abundant waters.
• English Standard Version (ESV)It was beautiful in its greatness, in the length of its branches; for its roots went down to abundant waters.
• New King James Version (NKJV)‘Thus it was beautiful in greatness and in the length of its branches, Because its roots reached to abundant waters.

Context of Ezekiel 31:7

5Therefore it towered higher than all the trees of the forest And its boughs multiplied and its branches grew long; Because there was so much water they spread outward. 6All the birds of the sky made their nests in its twigs, And under its branches all the animals of the field gave birth [to their young], And all of the great nations lived under its shadow. So it was beautiful in its greatness, in the length of its branches; For its roots extended [downward] to great waters. 8The cedars in the garden of God could not hide or rival it; The cypress trees did not have boughs like it, And the plane trees did not have branches like it. No tree in the garden of God was like it in its beauty. 9I made it beautiful with the great mass of its branches, So that all the trees of Eden which were in the garden of God were jealous of it (Assyria).

Ezekiel 31:7 word by word

וַיְּיִ֣ף בְּגָדְל֔וֹ בְּאֹ֖רֶךְ דָּֽלִיּוֹתָ֑יו כִּֽי־הָיָ֥ה שָׁרְשׁ֖וֹ אֶל־מַ֥יִם רַבִּֽים׃Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• Thus was he fairיָפָהyâphâh · be beautifulH3302
• in his greatnessגֹּ֫דֶלgôdel · greatnessH1433
• in the lengthאֹ֫רֶךְ'ôrek · lengthH753
• of his branchesדָּלִיּוֹתdâlîyâh · branchH1808
• for his rootשֹׁ֫רֶשׁsheresh · rootH8328
• was by greatרַבrab · manyH7227
• watersמַיmayim · waterH4325

Commentaries on Ezekiel 31:7

• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 3-9Verses 3-9 Fifth prophecy against Egypt: a warning to Pharaoh from the fate of the Assyrians. The Assyrian empire, after having been supreme in Asia for four centuries, had been overthrown by the united forces of the Babylonians and Medes, in the year of the battle of Carchemish (605 b.c.), which had broken the power of Egypt. This gives force to the warning to Egypt from Assyria‘s fall. Ezekiel 31:4 His plants - Rather, her plantation. The water…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 1-18Ezekiel asked the Egyptians to compare themselves to Assyria, which was like a great tree in Eden (Ezekiel 31:9). If that tree was cut down and sent to the underworld, how could Egypt, whose glory was less than Assyria's, believe it could survive?Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1-18Not that Egypt was, like Assyria, utterly to cease to be, but it was, like Assyria, to lose its prominence in the empire of the world. 1. third month--two months later than the prophecy delivered in Eze 30:20.Read the comment

In the dictionaries

• Cedar
• Egypt
• Fair
• Glory
• Isaiah
• Root

Commentaries on Ezekiel 31

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings