Zechariahchapter 5
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Original Language
Zechariah 5— Hebrew word study · with the Hebrew tradition
In Jewish life
Jewish practice and Jewish teaching both have something to say about Zechariah 5. 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 5. 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
2 rows sit beside their verses in the text, on 2 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 flying scroll that lodges in the thief's house1
Zechariah 5:1· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Rashi on Zechariah 5:1
a flying scroll Our Sages explained [it] as “double,” and they said that the Torah was written on it. They deduced from here that the world is 1/3,200 of the Torah, as stated in Eruvin (21a). And Jonathan rendered: a flying scroll; i.e., flying in the air.
Read it in full at Sefaria · The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg
Zechariah 5:2· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Zechariah 5:3· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Zechariah 5:4· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
The ephah, the woman named Wickedness, and a house in Shinar5
Zechariah 5:5· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Zechariah 5:6· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Zechariah 5:7· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Zechariah 5:8· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Zechariah 5:9· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Zechariah 5:10· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Zechariah 5:11· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Rashi on Zechariah 5:11
and it will be prepared, and they shall place it there And the house shall be prepared, and the ephah shall be placed there with the wicked that are within it.
Read it in full at Sefaria · The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg