Zephaniahchapter 2
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Original Language
Zephaniah 2— Hebrew word study · with the Hebrew tradition
In Jewish life
Jewish practice and Jewish teaching both have something to say about Zephaniah 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.
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.
Seek the LORD, all you meek of the earth1
Zephaniah 2:1· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Rashi on Zephaniah 2:1
Gather yourselves together Gather and assemble together as in (Exod.:12) “To Gather a gathering.”
Read it in full at Sefaria · The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg
Zephaniah 2:2· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Zephaniah 2:3· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Gaza forsaken; the seacoast left for the remnant of Judah4
Zephaniah 2:4· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Zephaniah 2:5· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Zephaniah 2:6· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Zephaniah 2:7· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Moab and Ammon will be like Sodom and Gomorrah8
Zephaniah 2:8· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Zephaniah 2:9· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Zephaniah 2:10· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Zephaniah 2:11· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Ethiopia slain, and Nineveh made a dry waste12
Zephaniah 2:12· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Rashi on Zephaniah 2:12
You, too, Cushites When Israel was exiled there to the other side of the rivets of Cush.
Read it in full at Sefaria · The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg
Zephaniah 2:13· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Rashi on Zephaniah 2:13
on the north Assyria is on the north, neighboring on Babylon.
Read it in full at Sefaria · The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg
Zephaniah 2:14· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Zephaniah 2:15· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible