Zechariah 10:5

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

And they shall be as mighty men, treading down [their enemies] in the mire of the streets in the battle; and they shall fight, because Jehovah is with them; and the riders on horses shall be confounded.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וְהָי֨וּ כְגִבֹּרִ֜ים בּוֹסִ֨ים בְּטִ֤יט חוּצוֹת֙ בַּמִּלְחָמָ֔ה וְנִ֨לְחֲמ֔וּ כִּ֥י יְהוָ֖ה עִמָּ֑ם וְהֹבִ֖ישׁוּ רֹכְבֵ֥י סוּסִֽים׃

Transliteration

And-hayu like-gibborim bosim in-tit chutsot in-the-milchamah and-nilchamu for YHWH with-them and-hovishu rokhvei susim.

Grammar Details

• *hayu*: Qal perfect, 3rd plural - they will be
• *gibborim*: masculine plural noun - mighty men/warriors
• *bosim*: Qal participle, masculine plural - treading/trampling
• *tit*: masculine singular construct - mire of/mud of
• *chutsot*: feminine plural noun - streets/outside places
• *milchamah*: feminine singular noun with definite article - the battle/war
• *nilchamu*: Niphal perfect, 3rd plural - they will fight
• *YHWH*: proper name - LORD
• *hovishu*: Hiphil perfect, 3rd plural - they will put to shame
• *rokhvei*: Qal participle, masculine plural construct - riders of
• *susim*: masculine plural noun - horses

Word Meanings

• *gibborim*: mighty men/warriors/heroes
• *bosim*: treading/trampling/stepping
• *tit chutsot*: mire of streets/mud in public places
• *nilchamu*: they will fight/do battle
• *hovishu*: they will put to shame/cause disgrace/humiliate

Referenced Verses

• Hag 2:22 : 22 and I will overthrow the throne of kingdoms; and I will destroy the strength of the kingdoms of the nations; and I will overthrow the chariots, and those that ride in them; and the horses and their riders shall come down, every one by the sword of his brother.
• Ps 20:7 : 7 Some [trust] in chariots, and some in horses; But we will make mention of the name of Jehovah our God.
• Ps 33:16 : 16 There is no king saved by the multitude of a host: A mighty man is not delivered by great strength.
• Ps 45:3 : 3 Gird thy sword upon thy thigh, O mighty one, Thy glory and thy majesty.
• Isa 8:9 : 9 Make an uproar, O ye peoples, and be broken in pieces; and give ear, all ye of far countries: gird yourselves, and be broken in pieces; gird yourselves, and be broken in pieces.
• Isa 10:6 : 6 I will send him against a profane nation, and against the people of my wrath will I give him a charge, to take the spoil, and to take the prey, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets.
• Isa 25:10 : 10 For in this mountain will the hand of Jehovah rest; and Moab shall be trodden down in his place, even as straw is trodden down in the water of the dunghill.
• Isa 41:12 : 12 Thou shalt seek them, and shalt not find them, even them that contend with thee: they that war against thee shall be as nothing, and as a thing of nought.
• Ezek 38:15 : 15 And thou shalt come from thy place out of the uttermost parts of the north, thou, and many peoples with thee, all of them riding upon horses, a great company and a mighty army;
• Joel 3:12-17 : 12 Let the nations bestir themselves, and come up to the valley of Jehoshaphat; for there will I sit to judge all the nations round about. 13 Put ye in the sickle; for the harvest is ripe: come, tread ye; for the winepress is full, the vats overflow; for their wickedness is great. 14 Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision! for the day of Jehovah is near in the valley of decision. 15 The sun and the moon are darkened, and the stars withdraw their shining. 16 And Jehovah will roar from Zion, and utter his voice from Jerusalem; and the heavens and the earth shall shake: but Jehovah will be a refuge unto his people, and a stronghold to the children of Israel. 17 So shall ye know that I am Jehovah your God, dwelling in Zion my holy mountain: then shall Jerusalem be holy, and there shall no strangers pass through her any more.
• Amos 2:15 : 15 neither shall he stand that handleth the bow; and he that is swift of foot shall not deliver [himself]; neither shall he that rideth the horse deliver himself;
• Mic 7:10 : 10 Then mine enemy shall see it, and shame shall cover her who said unto me, Where is Jehovah thy God? Mine eyes shall see [my desire] upon her; now shall she be trodden down as the mire of the streets.
• Deut 20:1 : 1 When thou goest forth to battle against thine enemies, and seest horses, and chariots, [and] a people more than thou, thou shalt not be afraid of them; for Jehovah thy God is with thee, who brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.
• Josh 10:14 : 14 And there was no day like that before it or after it, that Jehovah hearkened unto the voice of a man: for Jehovah fought for Israel.
• Josh 10:42 : 42 And all these kings and their land did Joshua take at one time, because Jehovah, the God of Israel, fought for Israel.
• 1 Sam 16:18 : 18 Then answered one of the young men, and said, Behold, I have seen a son of Jesse the Beth-lehemite, that is skilful in playing, and a mighty man of valor, and a man of war, and prudent in speech, and a comely person; and Jehovah is with him.
• 2 Sam 22:8 : 8 Then the earth shook and trembled, The foundations of heaven quaked And were shaken, because he was wroth.
• 2 Sam 22:43 : 43 Then did I beat them small as the dust of the earth, I did crush them as the mire of the streets, and did spread them abroad.
• Ps 18:42 : 42 Then did I beat them small as the dust before the wind; I did cast them out as the mire of the streets.
• Zech 9:13 : 13 For I have bent Judah for me, I have filled the bow with Ephraim; and I will stir up thy sons, O Zion, against thy sons, O Greece, and will make thee as the sword of a mighty man.
• Zech 12:4 : 4 In that day, saith Jehovah, I will smite every horse with terror, and his rider with madness; and I will open mine eyes upon the house of Judah, and will smite every horse of the peoples with blindness.
• Zech 12:8 : 8 In that day shall Jehovah defend the inhabitants of Jerusalem: and he that is feeble among them at that day shall be as David; and the house of David shall be as God, as the angel of Jehovah before them.
• Zech 14:3 : 3 Then shall Jehovah go forth, and fight against those nations, as when he fought in the day of battle.
• Zech 14:13 : 13 And it shall come to pass in that day, that a great tumult from Jehovah shall be among them; and they shall lay hold every one on the hand of his neighbor, and his hand shall rise up against the hand of his neighbor.
• Matt 4:3 : 3 And the tempter came and said unto him, If thou art the Son of God, command that these stones become bread.
• Matt 28:20 : 20 teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I commanded you: and lo, I am with you always, even unto the end of the world.
• Luke 24:19 : 19 And he said unto them, What things? And they said unto him, The things concerning Jesus the Nazarene, who was a prophet mighty in deed and word before God and all the people:
• Acts 7:22 : 22 And Moses was instructed in all the wisdom of the Egyptians; and he was mighty in his words and {G1722} works.
• Acts 18:24 : 24 Now a certain Jew named Apollos, an Alexandrian by race, an eloquent man, came to Ephesus; and he was mighty in the scriptures.
• Rom 8:31-37 : 31 What then shall we say to these things? If God [is] for us, who [is] against us? 32 He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not also with him freely give us all things? 33 Who shall lay anything to the charge of God's elect? It is God that justifieth; 34 who is he that condemneth? It is Christ Jesus that died, yea rather, that was raised from the dead, who is at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us. 35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or anguish, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? 36 Even as it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; We were accounted as sheep for the slaughter. 37 Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.
• 2 Cor 10:4 : 4 (for the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh, but mighty before God to the casting down of strongholds),
• 2 Tim 4:7 : 7 I have fought the good fight, I have finished the course, I have kept the faith:
• 2 Tim 4:17 : 17 But the Lord stood by me, and strengthened me; that through me the message might me fully proclaimed, and that all the Gentiles might hear: and I was delivered out of the mouth of the lion.
• Rev 19:13-15 : 13 And he [is] arrayed in a garment sprinkled with blood: and his name is called The Word of God. 14 And the armies which are in heaven followed him upon white horses, clothed in fine linen, white [and] pure. 15 And out of his mouth proceedeth a sharp sword, that with it he should smite the nations: and he shall rule them with a rod of iron: and he treadeth the winepress {G3631} of the fierceness of the wrath of God, the Almighty.
• Rev 19:17 : 17 And I saw an angel standing in the sun; and he cried with a loud voice, saying to all the birds that fly in mid heaven, Come [and] be gathered together unto the great supper of God;