Zechariahchapter 4
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Original Language
Zechariah 4— Hebrew word study · with the Hebrew tradition
In Jewish life
Jewish practice and Jewish teaching both have something to say about Zechariah 4. 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
4 rows sit beside their verses in the text, on 4 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 golden lampstand and two olive trees1
Zechariah 4:1· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Zechariah 4:2· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Rashi on Zechariah 4:2
with its oil - bowl on top of it as in (Josh.:19): “The upper springs”. This is an expression for a spring, [hence] a sort of large round bowl.
Read it in full at Sefaria · The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg
Zechariah 4:3· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Zechariah 4:4· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Zechariah 4:5· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Not by might, nor by power, but by my Spirit6
Zechariah 4:6· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Zechariah 4:7· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Zechariah 4:8· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Zechariah 4:9· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Zechariah 4:10· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
The two anointed ones who stand by the Lord of all the earth11
Zechariah 4:11· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Rashi on Zechariah 4:11
What are these two olive trees? What do they symbolize, and what do the two olive branches ( troches in Old French) symbolize? [They are] a cluster of olives on a branch, as if a type of ear of grain.
Read it in full at Sefaria · The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg
Zechariah 4:12· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Rashi on Zechariah 4:12
beside the two golden vats i.e., beside the two golden vats, as in (II Sam.:30): “See, Joab’s field is near mine.”
Read it in full at Sefaria · The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg
Zechariah 4:13· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Zechariah 4:14· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Rashi on Zechariah 4:14
two anointed ones The horns of the priesthood and the kingdom who are anointed with the anointing oil.
Read it in full at Sefaria · The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg