Zechariah 7:6

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

And when ye eat, and when ye drink, do not ye eat for yourselves, and drink for yourselves?

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וְכִ֥י תֹאכְל֖וּ וְכִ֣י תִשְׁתּ֑וּ הֲל֤וֹא אַתֶּם֙ הָאֹ֣כְלִ֔ים וְאַתֶּ֖ם הַשֹּׁתִֽים׃

Transliteration

And when wə-ḵî ṯōʾḵəlû and when ṯištû, hălôʾ you the hāʾōḵəlîm and you the haššōṯîm?

Grammar Details

*wə-ḵî ṯōʾḵəlû*: conjunction + conjunction + qal imperfect, 2nd masculine plural - and when you eat
*ṯištû*: qal imperfect, 2nd masculine plural - you drink
*hălôʾ*: interrogative particle + negative particle - is it not
*hāʾōḵəlîm*: definite article + qal participle, masculine plural - the ones eating
*haššōṯîm*: definite article + qal participle, masculine plural - the ones drinking

Word Meanings

*wə-ḵî*: and when/and if
*hălôʾ*: is it not/do you not/are you not
*hāʾōḵəlîm*: the ones eating/those who eat
*haššōṯîm*: the ones drinking/those who drink

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American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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Referenced Verses

1 Cor 11:20-21 : 20 When therefore ye assemble yourselves together, {G1909} {G846} it is not possible to eat the Lord's supper: 21 for in your eating each one taketh before [other] his own supper; and one {G3303} is hungry, and another is drunken.
1 Cor 11:26-29 : 26 For as often as ye eat {G302} this bread, and drink the cup, ye proclaim the Lord's death till {G302} he come. 27 Wherefore whosoever {G302} shall eat the bread or drink the cup of the Lord in an unworthy manner, shall be guilty of the body and the blood of the Lord. 28 But let a man prove himself, and so let him eat of the bread, and drink of the cup. 29 For he that eateth and drinketh, {G371} eateth and drinketh judgment unto himself, if he discern not the {G2962} body.
Col 3:17 : 17 And {G3748} whatsoever ye do, {G4160} in word or in deed, [do] all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.
Deut 12:7 : 7 and there ye shall eat before Jehovah your God, and ye shall rejoice in all that ye put your hand unto, ye and your households, wherein Jehovah thy God hath blessed thee.
Deut 14:26 : 26 and thou shalt bestow the money for whatsoever thy soul desireth, for oxen, or for sheep, or for wine, or for strong drink, or for whatsoever thy soul asketh of thee; and thou shalt eat there before Jehovah thy God, and thou shalt rejoice, thou and thy household.
1 Sam 16:7 : 7 But Jehovah said unto Samuel, Look not on his countenance, or on the height of his stature; because I have rejected him: for [Jehovah seeth] not as man seeth; for man looketh on the outward appearance, but Jehovah looketh on the heart.
1 Chr 29:22 : 22 and did eat and drink before Jehovah on that day with great gladness. And they made Solomon the son of David king the second time, and anointed him unto Jehovah to be prince, and Zadok to be priest.
Jer 17:9-9 : 9 The heart is deceitful above all things, and it is exceedingly corrupt: who can know it? 10 I, Jehovah, search the mind, I try the heart, even to give every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his doings.
Hos 8:13 : 13 As for the sacrifices of mine offerings, they sacrifice flesh and eat it; but Jehovah accepteth them not: now will he remember their iniquity, and visit their sins; they shall return to Egypt.
Hos 9:4 : 4 They shall not pour out [wine-] [offerings] to Jehovah, neither shall they be pleasing unto him: their sacrifices shall be unto them as the bread of mourners; all that eat thereof shall be polluted; for their bread shall be for their appetite; it shall not come into the house of Jehovah.
1 Cor 10:31 : 31 Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God.

Similar Verses (AI)

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