Study it in the app“But 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.”’””
Butאַךְmy wordsדְּבָרַיand my statutesוְחֻקַּיthatאֲשֶׁרI commandedצִוִּיתִיmy servantsעֲבָדַיthe prophets,הַנְּבִיאִיםdid they notהֲלוֹאovertakeהִשִּׂיגוּyour fathers?אֲבֹתֵיכֶםAnd they turned backוַיָּשׁוּבוּand said,וַיֹּאמְרוּ“AsכַּאֲשֶׁרYHWHיְהוָהTsevaotצְבָאוֹתpurposedזָמַםto doלַעֲשׂוֹתto usלָנוּaccording to our waysכִּדְרָכֵינוּand according to our deeds,וּכְמַעֲלָלֵינוּsoכֵּןhe has doneעָשָׂהwith us.”’”אִתָּנוּ
word
What someone says or announces, above all what YHWH says.
Where else “devara” appearsstatute
A rule that God or a king sets and that must be kept.
Where else “chuka” appearscommand
To give an order: "as YHWH had commanded".
Where else “tsiviti” appearsservant of YHWH
YHWH's servant, like Moses or David.
Where else “avada” appearsprophet
Someone who speaks for YHWH.
Where else “neviim” appearsovertake
To reach someone who is ahead.
Where else “hisigu” appearsforefather
Ancestors, those who came before in the family.
Where else “avote” appearsreturn
To go back to a place.
Where else “yashuvu” appearssay
To say with the mouth to someone what one thinks or wants, or to answer him.
Where else “yomru” appearsYHWH
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” appearsTsevaot
A name of God: the one who commands the armies of heaven and earth.
Where else “tsevaot” appearsresolve
To make up one's mind.
Where else “zamam” appearsdo
To carry out an act or to deal with someone in a certain way, for good or ill.
Where else “asot” appearsmanner
The way one lives and acts.
Where else “derache” appearsdeeds, doings
Deeds, doings; what someone does, good or bad.
Where else “maalale” appears5Your fathers, where are they? And the prophets, will they live forever?
6 · This verse (above)
7On the twenty- fourth day of the eleventh month, which is the month of Shebat, in the second year of Darius, the word of YHWH came to Zechariah son of Berechiah, son of Iddo, the prophet, saying,
