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“YHWHיְהוָהwas angryקָצַףwithעַלyour fathersאֲבוֹתֵיכֶםwith anger.קָצֶף
Zechariah 1:2
Study it in the app““YHWH was angry with your fathers with anger.”
With the Hebrew beneath
Zechariah 1:2, word by word
- “YHWHיְהוָהyehva
YHWH
The personal name of the God of Israel, written in Hebrew with four letters, Y-H-W-H, without vowels. Out of reverence Jews stopped pronouncing it and read "Adonai" (Lord), so many Bibles put "the LORD" or "Jehovah". This translation keeps the four letters. The name is related to the verb "to be" (Exodus 3:14-15). He is not a god other than Elohim: "YHWH Elohim" is the same Creator God, called by his name.
Where else “yehva” appears- was angryקָצַףkatsaf
be angry
Be angry, burst out in rage; provoke to anger.
Where else “katsaf” appears- your fathersאֲבוֹתֵיavote
forefather
Ancestors, those who came before in the family.
Where else “avote” appears- with angerקָצֶףkatsef
wrath
A violent anger poured out on someone, above all YHWH's.
Where else “katsef” appears
The context
1In the eighth month, in the second year of Darius, the word of YHWH came to Zechariah son of Berechiah, son of Iddo, the prophet, saying,
2 · This verse (above)
3And you shall say to them, ‘Thus says YHWH Tsevaot: Return to me, declares YHWH Tsevaot, and I will return to you, says YHWH Tsevaot.