Ezekiel 17:4
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He cropped off the top of the twigs thereof: and carried it away into the land of Chanaan, and he set it in a city of merchants.

the top.

Isaiah 43:14 Thus saith the Lord your redeemer, the Holy One of Israel: For your sake I sent to Babylon, and have brought down all their bars, and the Chaldeans glorying in their ships.

Isaiah 47:15 Such are all the things become to thee, in which thou hast laboured: thy merchants from thy youth, every one hath erred in his own way, there is none that can save thee.

Jeremiah 51:13 O thou that dwellest upon many waters, rich in treasures, thy end is come for thy entire destruction.

Revelation 18:3,11-19 Because all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication: and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her; And the merchants of the earth have been made rich by the power of her delicacies. . . .

a land

Context
The Parable of Two Eagles and a Vine
3And say: Thus saith the Lord God; A large eagle with great wings, long-limbed, full of feathers, and of variety, came to Libanus, and took away the marrow of the cedar. 4He cropped off the top of the twigs thereof: and carried it away into the land of Chanaan, and he set it in a city of merchants.5And he took of the seed of the land, and put it in the ground for seed, that it might take a firm root over many waters: he planted it on the surface of the earth.…
Cross References
Ezekiel 17:3
And say: Thus saith the Lord God; A large eagle with great wings, long-limbed, full of feathers, and of variety, came to Libanus, and took away the marrow of the cedar.

Ezekiel 17:5
And he took of the seed of the land, and put it in the ground for seed, that it might take a firm root over many waters: he planted it on the surface of the earth.

Ezekiel 31:3
Behold, the Assyrian like a cedar in Libanus, with fair branches, and full of leaves, of a high stature, and his top was elevated among the thick boughs.

Lexicon
He plucked off
קָטָ֑ף (qā·ṭāp̄)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 6998: To pluck off or out

its topmost
רֹ֥אשׁ (rōš)
Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's Hebrew 7218: The head

shoot,
יְנִֽיקוֹתָ֖יו (yə·nî·qō·w·ṯāw)
Noun - feminine plural construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 3242: A young shoot, twig

carried it
וַיְבִיאֵ֙הוּ֙ (way·ḇî·’ê·hū)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Hifil - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular | third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 935: To come in, come, go in, go

to
אֶל־ (’el-)
Preposition
Strong's Hebrew 413: Near, with, among, to

the land
אֶ֣רֶץ (’e·reṣ)
Noun - feminine singular construct
Strong's Hebrew 776: Earth, land

of merchants,
כְּנַ֔עַן (kə·na·‘an)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 3667: Canaan -- a son of Ham, also his descendants and their land West of the Jordan

and planted
שָׂמֽוֹ׃ (śā·mōw)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person masculine singular | third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 7760: Put -- to put, place, set

it in a city
בְּעִ֥יר (bə·‘îr)
Preposition-b | Noun - feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 5892: Excitement

of traders.
רֹכְלִ֖ים (rō·ḵə·lîm)
Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 7402: To travel for, trading


Additional Translations
He plucked off its topmost shoot, carried it to the land of merchants, and planted it in a city of traders.He cropped off the top of his young twigs, and carried it into a land of traffic; he set it in a city of merchants.

he cropped off the topmost of the young twigs thereof, and carried it unto a land of traffic; he set it in a city of merchants.

he cropped off the ends of the tender twigs, and brought them into the land of Chanaan; he laid them up in a walled city.

He cropped off the top of its young shoots, and carried it into a merchants' land; he set it in a city of traders.

he cropped off the topmost of the young twigs thereof, and carried it into a land of traffic; he set it in a city of merchants.

He cropped off the top of its young twigs, and carried it into a land of traffick; he set it in a city of merchants.

he cropped off the topmost of the young twigs of it, and carried it to a land of traffic; he set it in a city of merchants.

The top of its tender twigs it hath cropped, And it bringeth it in to the land of Canaan. In a city of merchants it hath placed it.
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