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And whenוְכִיyou eatתֹאכְלוּand whenוְכִיyou drink,תִשְׁתּוּis it notהֲלוֹאyouאַתֶּםwho eat,הָאֹכְלִיםand youוְאַתֶּםwho drink?הַשֹּׁתִים
Zechariah 7:6
Study it in the app“And when you eat and when you drink, is it not you who eat, and you who drink?”
With the Hebrew beneath
Zechariah 7:6, word by word
- you eatתֹאכְלוּtochlu
eat
To bring food to the mouth and swallow it, above all at a shared table.
Where else “tochlu” appears- you drinkתִשְׁתּוּtishtu
drink
Drink.
Where else “tishtu” appears
The context
5“Say to all the people of the land and to the priests, saying, When you fasted and lamented in the fifth and in the seventh, and this for seventy years, did you truly fast for me, for me?
6 · This verse (above)
7Are not these the words that YHWH proclaimed through the former prophets, when Jerusalem was inhabited and at ease, and its cities around it, and the Negev and the Shephelah were inhabited?”