Zephaniahchapter 1
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Original Language
Zephaniah 1— Hebrew word study · with the Hebrew tradition
In Jewish life
Jewish practice and Jewish teaching both have something to say about Zephaniah 1. 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.
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.
I will utterly sweep everything from off the land1
Zephaniah 1:1· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Zephaniah 1:2· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Zephaniah 1:3· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Zephaniah 1:4· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Zephaniah 1:5· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Zephaniah 1:6· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Searching Jerusalem with lamps for the men settled on their lees7
Zephaniah 1:7· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Zephaniah 1:8· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Zephaniah 1:9· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Zephaniah 1:10· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Rashi on Zephaniah 1:10
from the fish gate Jonathan renders: from the gate of the fish; there was a gate in Jerusalem called by that name.
Read it in full at Sefaria · The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg
Zephaniah 1:11· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Rashi on Zephaniah 1:11
you inhabitants of Maktesh The Kidron Valley, which is as deep as a mortar. This is according to Targum Jonathan. from the fish gate This is Acre, situated in the bosom of the sea, where many fish are caught.
Read it in full at Sefaria · The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg
Zephaniah 1:12· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Rashi on Zephaniah 1:12
I will search Jerusalem with candles I will judge their iniquities strictly.
Read it in full at Sefaria · The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg
Zephaniah 1:13· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
A day of wrath, trouble, trumpet, and alarm14
Zephaniah 1:14· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Rashi on Zephaniah 1:14
wherein the mighty man cries bitterly The mighty man will cry out with a bitter voice.
Read it in full at Sefaria · The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg
Zephaniah 1:15· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Zephaniah 1:16· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Zephaniah 1:17· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Zephaniah 1:18· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible