Zechariah 3:9

Bishops' Bible (1568)

For lo, the stone that I haue layde before Iosua, vpon one stone shalbe seuen eyes: beholde, I wyll cut out the grauing therof, saith the Lorde of hoastes, and I wyll take away the sinne of the lande in one day.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

כִּ֣י ׀ הִנֵּ֣ה הָאֶ֗בֶן אֲשֶׁ֤ר נָתַ֙תִּי֙ לִפְנֵ֣י יְהוֹשֻׁ֔עַ עַל־אֶ֥בֶן אַחַ֖ת שִׁבְעָ֣ה עֵינָ֑יִם הִנְנִ֧י מְפַתֵּ֣חַ פִּתֻּחָ֗הּ נְאֻם֙ יְהוָ֣ה צְבָא֔וֹת וּמַשְׁתִּ֛י אֶת־עֲוֺ֥ן הָאָֽרֶץ־הַהִ֖יא בְּי֥וֹם אֶחָֽד׃

Transliteration

For behold the ʾeḇen which I nātattî before Yəhôšuaʿ, upon ʾeḇen one, seven ʿênāyim. Behold I am məpattēaḥ pittūḥāh, nəʾum YHWH ṣəḇāʾôt, and I will umaštî ʾet-ʿăwōn the ʾāreṣ-that in yôm one.

Grammar Details

• *ʾeḇen*: Noun, feminine singular - stone
• *nātattî*: Qal perfect, 1st person singular - I have placed/given
• *Yəhôšuaʿ*: Proper name, Joshua
• *ʿênāyim*: Noun, feminine plural construct - eyes
• *məpattēaḥ*: Piel participle, masculine singular - engraving
• *pittūḥāh*: Noun, masculine singular with 3rd person feminine singular suffix - its engraving
• *nəʾum*: Noun, masculine singular construct - declaration of
• *YHWH*: Divine name, tetragrammaton
• *ṣəḇāʾôt*: Noun, feminine plural construct - of hosts/armies
• *umaštî*: Qal perfect with waw consecutive, 1st person singular - and I will remove
• *ʿăwōn*: Noun, masculine singular construct - iniquity of
• *ʾāreṣ*: Noun, feminine singular with definite article - the land
• *yôm*: Noun, masculine singular - day

Word Meanings

• *ʾeḇen*: stone/rock
• *nātattî*: placed/given/set
• *ʿênāyim*: eyes/facets/aspects
• *məpattēaḥ*: engraving/opening/carving
• *pittūḥāh*: its engraving/its inscription
• *nəʾum*: declaration of/utterance of/oracle of
• *umaštî*: remove/wipe away
• *ʿăwōn*: iniquity/guilt/sin
• *ʾāreṣ*: land/earth/ground
• *yôm*: day/time

Referenced Verses

• Isa 28:16 : 16 Therfore thus saith the Lorde God, Beholde, I lay in Sion for a foundation a stone, euen a tryed stone, a precious corner stone, a sure foundation: who so beleueth, let hym not be to hastie.
• Ps 118:22 : 22 The same stone which the buylders refused: is become the head stone of the corner.
• Jer 50:20 : 20 In those dayes and at the same tyme saith the Lorde, yf the offence of Israel be sought for, there shal none be founde, yf men enquire for the sinne of Iuda, there shalbe none: for I wyll be mercifull vnto them whom I suffer to remayne.
• Zech 4:10 : 10 For who hath despised the day of small thinges? they shall reioyce, and shall see the stone of tynne in the hande of Zorobabel: these seuen are the eyes of the lord, which go through ye whole worlde.
• Jer 31:34 : 34 And from thencefoorth shall no man teache his neighbour or his brother, and say, Knowe the Lorde: but they shal all knowe me from the lowest vnto the hyest, saith the Lorde: for I wyll forgeue their misdeedes, and wyll neuer remember their sinnes any more.
• Rom 9:33 : 33 As it is written: Beholde, I put in Sion a stumblyng stone, and a rocke of offence: And whosoeuer beleueth on hym, shall not be confounded.
• 2 Cor 1:22 : 22 Which hath also sealed vs, and hath geuen the earnest of the spirite in our heartes.
• Heb 9:25-26 : 25 Not that he shoulde offer him selfe often, as the hye priest entreth into the holy places euery yere in strauge blood: 26 (For then must he haue often suffred sence the foundation of the worlde) But nowe once in the ende of the world hath he appeared, to put away sinne, by the sacrifice of hym selfe.
• 1 Tim 2:5-6 : 5 For there is one God, and one mediatour of God and men, the man Christe Iesus: 6 Who gaue him selfe a raunsome for all, a testimonie in due tymes.
• 2 Tim 2:19 : 19 But the strong foundation of God standeth styl, hauyng this seale: The Lorde knoweth the that are his: And, let euery one that nameth the name of Christe, depart from iniquitie.
• Rev 5:6 : 6 And I behelde, and loe in the middes of the throne and of the foure beastes, and in the middes of the elders, stoode a lambe as though he had ben kylled, hauyng seuen hornes & seuen eyes, whiche are the seuen spirites of God, sent into all the worlde.
• Heb 7:27 : 27 Whiche nedeth not dayly, as those hie priestes, to offer vp sacrifice, first for his owne sinnes, and then for the peoples: for that dyd he once, when he offered vp hym selfe.
• Heb 10:10-18 : 10 In ye which wyll we are made holy, euen by the offeryng of the body of Iesus Christe once for all. 11 And euery priest standeth dayly ministryng, & offeryng oftentymes the same sacrifices, whiche can neuer take away sinnes. 12 But this man, after he hath offered one sacrifice for sinnes, is sit downe for euer on the ryght hande of God: 13 From hencefoorth tarying tyl his foes be made his footstoole. 14 For with one offeryng hath he made perfite for euer them that are sanctified. 15 And the holy ghost also beareth vs recorde: For after that he tolde before, 16 This is the couenaunt that I wyll make vnto them after those dayes, (sayth the Lorde) geuyng my lawes in their heart, and in their myndes wyl I write them: 17 And their sinnes and iniquities wyll I remember no more. 18 And where remission of these thinges is there is no more offering for sinne.
• 1 Pet 2:4-8 : 4 To whom ye come, as vnto a lyuyng stone, disalowed of men, but chosen of God and precious: 5 And ye as lyuely stones, be you made a spirituall house, an holy priesthood, for to offer vp spirituall sacrifices, acceptable to God by Iesus Christe. 6 Wherefore it is conteyned also in the scripture: beholde, I put in Sion a stone to be laide in the chiefe corner, elect and precious, and he that beleueth on hym, shall not be confounded. 7 Unto you therfore which beleue, he is precious: but vnto them whiche beleue not, the stone which the buylders refused, the same is made the head of the corner: 8 And a stone that men stumble at, and a rocke wherat they be offended, whiche stumble at the worde, and beyng disobedient, vnto the whiche thing they were euen ordeyned.
• 1 John 2:2 : 2 And he is ye attonement for our sinnes: not for our sinnes only, but also for the sinnes of all the worlde.
• 2 Cor 3:3 : 3 Forasmuche as ye declare that ye are the epistle of Christ ministred by vs, and written, not with ynke, but with the spirite of the lyuyng God, not in tables of stone, but in fleshly tables of the heart.
• Eph 2:16-17 : 16 And that he myght reconcile both vnto God in one body through his crosse, and slewe hatred thereby. 17 And came and preached peace to you which were a farre of, and to them that were nye.
• Col 1:20-21 : 20 And by hym to reconcile all thynges vnto hym selfe, & to set at peace through the blood of his crosse by hym, both the thynges in earth, and thynges in heauen, 21 And you which were sometyme straungers, and enemies, by cogitation in euyll workes, hath he nowe yet reconciled,
• Isa 53:4-9 : 4 Howbeit, he only hath taken on him our infirmitie, and borne our paynes: Yet we dyd iudge hym as though he were plagued, and cast downe of God. 5 Wheras he notwithstandyng was wounded for our offences, and smitten for our wickednesse: for the payne of our punishment was layde vpon hym, and with his stripes are we healed. 6 As for vs we are all gone astray lyke sheepe, euery one hath turned his owne way: but the Lord hath throwen vpon hym all our sinnes. 7 He suffered violence, and was euyll intreated, and dyd not open his mouth: He shalbe led as a sheepe to be slayne, yet shall he be as styll as a lambe before the shearer, and not open his mouth. 8 From the prison and iudgement was he taken, and his generation who can declare? for he was cut of from the grounde of the lyuyng, which punishment dyd go vpon hym for the transgression of my people. 9 His graue was geuen hym with the condempned, and with the riche man at his death, wheras he did neuer violence nor vnright, neither hath there ben any disceiptfulnesse in his mouth. 10 Yet hath it pleased the Lord to smite hym with infirmitie, that when he had made his soule an offeryng for sinne, he might see long lastyng seede: and this deuice of the Lorde shall prosper in his hande. 11 Of the trauayle and labour of his soule, shall he see the fruite & be satisfied: My righteous seruaunt shall with his knowledge iustifie the multitude, for he shall beare their sinnes. 12 Therfore wyll I geue hym among the great ones his part, and he shall deuide the spoyle with the mightie, because he geueth ouer his soule to death, and is reckened among the transgressours: which neuerthelesse hath taken away the sinnes of the multitude, and made intercession for the misdoers.
• Isa 8:14-15 : 14 For he shalbe the holy place to flee to, and stone to stumble at, the rocke to fall vpon, a snare and net to both the houses of Israel, and the inhabitours of Hierusalem: 15 And many among them shall stumble, and fall, and be broken, yea they shalbe snared and taken.
• Exod 28:21 : 21 And the stones shalbe grauen, as signettes be grauen with the names of the children of Israel, euen with twelue names, euery one with his name accordyng to the twelue tribes.
• Exod 28:36 : 36 And thou shalt make a plate of pure gold, and graue theron as signettes are grauen, the holynes of the Lorde.
• 2 Chr 16:9 : 9 For the eyes of the Lorde beholde all the earth, to strength them that are of perfect heart toward him: Herein thou hast done foolishly, and therefore from hencefoorth thou shalt haue warre.
• Zech 13:1 : 1 In that time shall the house of Dauid and the citezins of Hierusalem haue an open wel to washe of sinne and vncleannesse.
• Matt 21:42-44 : 42 Iesus sayth vnto them. Did ye neuer reade in the Scriptures: The stone which the buylders refused, the same is become the head of the corner. This is the Lordes doing, and it is marueylous in our eyes. 43 Therefore saye I vnto you, the kyngdome of God shalbe taken from you, & geuen to a nation bryngyng foorth the fruites therof. 44 And whosoeuer falleth on this stone, shalbe broken in peeces: but on whomsoeuer it falleth, it shal all to grynd him.
• John 1:29 : 29 The next day, Iohn seeth Iesus comming vnto hym, and saith, beholde the lambe of God, which taketh away the sinne of the worlde.
• John 6:27 : 27 Labour not for the meate whiche perisheth, but for that whiche endureth vnto euerlastyng lyfe, which meate the sonne of man shall geue vnto you: For hym hath God the father sealed.
• Acts 4:11 : 11 This is the stone which was cast asyde of you buylders, which is the head of the corner:
• Dan 9:24-27 : 24 Seuetie weekes are determined ouer thy people, & ouer thy holy citie, to finish the wickednes, and to seale vp ye sinnes, and to reconcile the iniquitie, & to bring in euerlasting righteousnes, to seale vp the vision and prophecie, & to annoynt the most holy. 25 Knowe therfore and vnderstand, that from the going foorth of the commaudement, to bring againe the people and to builde Hierusalem, vnto Messiah the prince, there shalbe seuen weekes and threescore and two weekes: and the streete shalbe built againe, and the wall, euen in the straitnes of time. 26 After these threescore & two weekes shall Messiah be slaine, & not for him selfe: and the people of the prince that shal come, shall destroy the citie and the sanctuarie, and the ende thereof shalbe with a fludde, and vnto the ende of the battel it shalbe destroyed by desolatios. 27 He shall confirme the couenaunt with many for one weeke, and in the midst of the weeke he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to ceasse, and for the ouerspreading of the abhominations, he shal make it desolate, euen vntil the consummation determined shalbe powred vpon the desolate.
• Mic 7:18-19 : 18 Who is such a God as thou, that pardonest wickednesse, and forgeuest the offences of the remnaunt of thyne heritage? He kepeth not his wrath for euer: for his delite is to haue compassion. 19 He shall turne againe, and be merciful to vs, he shall put downe our wickednesses, and cast all our sinnes into the bottome of the sea?
• Zech 3:4 : 4 And he aunswered & saide vnto those that stoode before him, Take away the foule clothes fro him. And vnto him he saide: Beholde, I haue taken away thy sinne from thee, and I wyll clothe thee with chaunge of rayment.
• Exod 28:11 : 11 After the worke of a stone grauer and of him that graueth signettes, shalt thou graue the two stones, with the names of the children of Israel, and shalt make them to be set in ouches of golde.