Ezekiel 26:4
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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.

destroy

Ezekiel 26:9 And he shall set engines of war and battering rams against thy walls, and shall destroy thy towers with his arms.

Isaiah 23:11 He stretched out his hand over the sea, he troubled kingdoms: the Lord hath given a charge against Chanaan, to destroy the strong ones thereof.

Jeremiah 5:10 Scale the walls thereof, and throw them down, but do not utterly destroy: take away the branches thereof, because they are not the Lord's.

Amos 1:10 And I will send a fire upon the wall of Tyre, and it shall devour the houses thereof.

Zechariah 9:3 And Tyre hath built herself a strong hold, and heaped together silver as earth, and gold as the mire of the streets.

I

Ezekiel 26:12 They shall waste thy riches, they shall make a spoil of thy merchandise: and they shall destroy thy walls, and pull down thy fine houses: and they shall lay thy stones and thy timber, and thy dust in the midst of the waters.

Leviticus 14:41-45 And that the house be scraped on the inside round about, and the dust of the scrapings be scattered without the city into an unclean place: . . .

make

Ezekiel 24:7,8 For her blood is in the midst of her, she hath shed it upon the smooth rock: she hath not shed it upon the ground, that it might be covered with dust. . . .

Context
A Prophecy Against Tyre
3Therefore thus saith the Lord God: Behold I come against thee, O Tyre, and I will cause many nations to come up to thee, as the waves of the sea rise up. 4And 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.5She shall be a drying place for nets in the midst of the sea, because I have spoken it, saith the Lord God: and she shall be a spoil to the nations.…
Cross References
Leviticus 14:41
And that the house be scraped on the inside round about, and the dust of the scrapings be scattered without the city into an unclean place:

Isaiah 23:11
He stretched out his hand over the sea, he troubled kingdoms: the Lord hath given a charge against Chanaan, to destroy the strong ones thereof.

Ezekiel 26:9
And he shall set engines of war and battering rams against thy walls, and shall destroy thy towers with his arms.

Amos 1:10
And I will send a fire upon the wall of Tyre, and it shall devour the houses thereof.

Lexicon
They will destroy
וְשִׁחֲת֞וּ (wə·ši·ḥă·ṯū)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Piel - Conjunctive perfect - third person common plural
Strong's Hebrew 7843: Perhaps to go to ruin

the walls
חֹמ֣וֹת (ḥō·mō·wṯ)
Noun - feminine plural construct
Strong's Hebrew 2346: A wall of protection

of Tyre
צֹ֗ר (ṣōr)
Noun - proper - feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 6865: Tyre -- a Phoenician city

and demolish
וְהָֽרְסוּ֙ (wə·hā·rə·sū)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - third person common plural
Strong's Hebrew 2040: To pull down, in pieces, break, & destroy

her towers.
מִגְדָּלֶ֔יהָ (miḡ·dā·le·hā)
Noun - masculine plural construct | third person feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 4026: A tower, a rostrum, a, bed of flowers

I will scrape
וְסִֽחֵיתִ֥י (wə·si·ḥê·ṯî)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Piel - Conjunctive perfect - first person common singular
Strong's Hebrew 5500: To sweep away

the soil
עֲפָרָ֖הּ (‘ă·p̄ā·rāh)
Noun - masculine singular construct | third person feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 6083: Dust, clay, earth, mud

from her
מִמֶּ֑נָּה (mim·men·nāh)
Preposition | third person feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 4480: A part of, from, out of

and make
וְנָתַתִּ֥י (wə·nā·ṯat·tî)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - first person common singular
Strong's Hebrew 5414: To give, put, set

her
אוֹתָ֖הּ (’ō·w·ṯāh)
Direct object marker | third person feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 853: Untranslatable mark of the accusative case

a bare
לִצְחִ֥יחַ (liṣ·ḥî·aḥ)
Preposition-l | Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's Hebrew 6706: Glaring, exposed to the bright sun

rock.
סָֽלַע׃ (sā·la‘)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 5553: A craggy rock


Additional Translations
They will destroy the walls of Tyre and demolish her towers. I will scrape the soil from her and make her a bare rock.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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.
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