Zechariahchapter 10
12 verses · Zechariah · 520 to 518 BC · The Twelve
Original Language
Zechariah 10— Hebrew word study · with the Hebrew tradition
In Jewish life
Jewish practice and Jewish teaching both have something to say about Zechariah 10. Three things follow: where it is read, what is done because of it, and how the rabbis have taught it. The purpose is to inform a Christian reader what Jews believe and how Judaism was and is practised.
The reading
The yearly cycle does not read Zechariah 10. The Haftarah is drawn from the Prophets a passage at a time rather than continuously, so most chapters of most prophetic books are never read in the service, and this is one of them.
The verse numbers here are the ones a Hebrew Bible carries, which differ from an English Bible by a verse or two in several places. The Sephardi reading is named only where this site records a difference; communities vary beyond what is listed. What these books are, and how a Christian reader meets them →
Where the rabbis cite this chapter
3 rows sit beside their verses in the text, on 3 verses of this chapter. No row that speaks to the chapter as a whole is recorded. Every quote links to its full source.
Texts and citation data: Sefaria (sefaria.org); excerpts follow each version’s license, and every passage opens at its source.
How to read a word below: the Hebrewword, then how it sounds, then what it means, then its number in Strong’s concordance, a widely used lookup this site follows (H for Hebrew and Aramaic, G for Greek). Square brackets hold a word the English supplies that the Hebrew does not, angle brackets mark the Hebrew’s own grammatical elements that English renders as separate words, and the mark ס or פ is where the Hebrew manuscripts end a paragraph.
Ask rain of the LORD, not of the teraphim1
Zechariah 10:1· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Zechariah 10:2· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Rashi on Zechariah 10:2
For the teraphim, etc., and the soothsayers envisioned lies, and dreamers who misled your forefathers, saying, “I dreamt.” They would encourage [your forefathers] to rebel against the Holy One, blessed be He. They spoke futility, and they spoke vanity, saying “peace” - but there was no peace.
Read it in full at Sefaria · The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg
Zechariah 10:3· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Rashi on Zechariah 10:3
My wrath is kindled against the shepherds Against the kings of Greece.
Read it in full at Sefaria · The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg
Zechariah 10:4· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Zechariah 10:5· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
I will whistle for them and gather them in6
Zechariah 10:6· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Zechariah 10:7· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Zechariah 10:8· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Brought back from Egypt and out of Assyria9
Zechariah 10:9· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Zechariah 10:10· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Zechariah 10:11· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Rashi on Zechariah 10:11
And trouble shall pass through the sea And the trouble shall pass through Tyre, which is situated in the midst of the sea, it is the head of Edom.
Read it in full at Sefaria · The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg
