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Your fathers,אֲבוֹתֵיכֶםwhereאַיֵּהare they?הֵםAnd the prophets,וְהַנְּבִאִיםwill they liveהַ יִחְיוּforever?לְעוֹלָם
Zechariah 1:5
Study it in the app“Your fathers, where are they? And the prophets, will they live forever?”
With the Hebrew beneath
Zechariah 1:5, word by word
- Your fathersאֲבוֹתֵיavote
forefather
Ancestors, those who came before in the family.
Where else “avote” appears- And the prophetsנְּבִאִיםneviim
prophet
Someone who speaks for YHWH.
Where else “neviim” appears- will they liveיִחְיוּyichyu
live
To have breath and remain in this world, not die.
Where else “yichyu” appears- foreverעוֹלָםolam
forever
Time without end, beyond what a lifetime can see.
Where else “olam” appears
The context
4Do not be like your fathers, to whom the former prophets called out, saying, Thus says YHWH Tsevaot: Turn back, please, from your evil ways and from your evil deeds; but they did not listen, and did not pay attention to me, declares YHWH.
5 · This verse (above)
6But my words and my statutes that I commanded my servants the prophets, did they not overtake your fathers? And they turned back and said, “As YHWH Tsevaot purposed to do to us according to our ways and according to our deeds, so he has done with us.”’”