Zechariahchapter 2
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Original Language
Zechariah 2— Hebrew word study · with the Hebrew tradition
In Jewish life
Jewish practice and Jewish teaching both have something to say about Zechariah 2. 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
Read here as the Haftarah
- Zechariah 2:14 to 4:7, with the portion Beha'alotcha (Numbers 8:1 to 12:16).
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.
A man with a measuring line, and a wall of fire around her1
Zechariah 2:1· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Zechariah 2:2· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Zechariah 2:3· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Zechariah 2:4· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Zechariah 2:5· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Flee Babylon — whoever touches you touches the apple of his eye6
Zechariah 2:6· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Zechariah 2:7· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Zechariah 2:8· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Zechariah 2:9· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Many nations joined to the LORD in that day10
Zechariah 2:10· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Zechariah 2:11· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Rashi on Zechariah 2:11
Ho, Zion! Flee This too is an expression of announcement: Assemble, O exile of Zion, and flee from the midst of Babylon.
Read it in full at Sefaria · The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg
Zechariah 2:12· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Rashi on Zechariah 2:12
After glory After your glory I am sent, to magnify your glory. And the Midrash Aggadah (Addendum to Tan. Buber, Devarim 4) states: After the honor - After I pay Esau for the honor that he bestowed upon his father.
Read it in full at Sefaria · The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg
Zechariah 2:13· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Rashi on Zechariah 2:13
and they shall be prey, etc., to Israel, who are now slaves to them.
Read it in full at Sefaria · The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg