Zechariahchapter 3
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Original Language
Zechariah 3— Hebrew word study · with the Hebrew tradition
In Jewish life
Jewish practice and Jewish teaching both have something to say about Zechariah 3. 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.
Filthy garments taken off Joshua the high priest1
Zechariah 3:1· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Rashi on Zechariah 3:1
to accuse him To accuse him because his sons were married to gentile women, as it is written in the Book of Ezra (10:18): “And it was found of the sons of the priests who had taken foreign wives, of the sons of Jeshua the son of Jozadak, etc.”
Read it in full at Sefaria · The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg
Zechariah 3:2· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Zechariah 3:3· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Rashi on Zechariah 3:3
was wearing filthy garments This is to be explained according to the Targum: He had sons who had married women who were unfit [to marry into] the priesthood, and he was punished because he did not interfere with the [sons’ marriages].
Read it in full at Sefaria · The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg
Zechariah 3:4· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Rashi on Zechariah 3:4
“Take the filthy garments off him.” Let his sons separate from their wives, and he will be forgiven.
Read it in full at Sefaria · The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg
Zechariah 3:5· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
If you walk in my ways, you will judge my house6
Zechariah 3:6· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Zechariah 3:7· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
My servant the BRANCH, and a stone with seven eyes8
Zechariah 3:8· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Zechariah 3:9· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Zechariah 3:10· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible