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And he saidוַיֹּאמֶרto me,אֵלַי“Whatמָהdo youאַתָּהsee?”רֹאֶהAnd I said,וָאֹמַר“Iאֲנִיseeרֹאֶהa flyingעָפָהscroll;מְגִלָּהits lengthאָרְכָּהּtwentyעֶשְׂרִיםcubits,בָּאַמָּהand its widthוְרָחְבָּהּtenעֶשֶׂרcubits.”בָּאַמָּה
Zechariah 5:2
Study it in the app“And he said to me, “What do you see?” And I said, “I see a flying scroll; its length twenty cubits, and its width ten cubits.””
With the Hebrew beneath
Zechariah 5:2, word by word
- And he saidיֹּאמֶרyomer
say
To say with the mouth to someone what one thinks or wants, or to answer him.
Where else “yomer” appears- seeרֹאֶהroe
see
To see with one's eyes.
Where else “roe” appears- a flyingעָפָהafa
fly
To move through the air with wings, like birds and seraphim.
Where else “afa” appears- scrollמְגִלָּהmegila
scroll
Scroll: a long strip of skin or papyrus, written and rolled up; this was the form of books.
Where else “megila” appears- its lengthאָרְכָּarka
length
Length: "the length and the breadth".
Where else “arka” appears- twentyעֶשְׂרִיםesrim
twenty
Twenty; also "twentieth".
Where else “esrim” appears- cubitsאַמָּהama
cubit
About 45 centimeters: from the bent arm to the fingertips.
Where else “ama” appears- and its widthרָחְבָּrachba
width
Width, breadth.
Where else “rachba” appears- tenעֶשֶׂרeser
ten
Ten.
Where else “eser” appears
The context
1And again I lifted up my eyes and saw, and look, a flying scroll.
2 · This verse (above)
3And he said to me, “This is the imprecation that goes out over the face of all the land; for everyone who steals, from here, according to it, has gone unpunished; and everyone who swears, from here, according to it, has gone unpunished.