Zechariah 8:16

Coverdale Bible (1535)

Now the thinges that ye shal do, are these: Speake euery man the treuth vnto his neghboure, execute iudgment truly and peaceably within youre portes,

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

אֵ֥לֶּה הַדְּבָרִ֖ים אֲשֶׁ֣ר תַּֽעֲשׂ֑וּ דַּבְּר֤וּ אֱמֶת֙ אִ֣ישׁ אֶת־רֵעֵ֔הוּ אֱמֶת֙ וּמִשְׁפַּ֣ט שָׁל֔וֹם שִׁפְט֖וּ בְּשַׁעֲרֵיכֶֽם׃

Transliteration

These haḏḏəḇārîm ʾăšer taʿăśû dabbərû ʾĕmet ʾîš to-rēʿēhû ʾĕmet and-mišpaṭ šālôm šipṭû in-šaʿărêḵem.

Grammar Details

• *haḏḏəḇārîm*: definite article + masculine plural noun - the words
• *ʾăšer*: relative pronoun - that/which
• *taʿăśû*: qal imperfect, 2nd plural masculine - you shall do
• *dabbərû*: piel imperative, 2nd plural masculine - speak
• *ʾĕmet*: feminine singular noun - truth
• *ʾîš*: masculine singular noun - man/each
• *rēʿēhû*: masculine singular noun with 3rd masculine singular suffix with direct object marker - to his neighbor
• *mišpaṭ*: masculine singular construct with waw conjunction - and judgment of
• *šālôm*: masculine singular noun - peace
• *šipṭû*: qal imperative, 2nd plural masculine - judge
• *šaʿărêḵem*: masculine plural noun with 2nd masculine plural suffix with preposition bet - in your gates

Word Meanings

• *ʾĕmet*: truth/faithfulness/reliability
• *mišpaṭ šālôm*: judgment of peace/peaceful justice/true justice
• *šaʿărêḵem*: your gates/towns/courts

Referenced Verses

• Zech 7:9 : 9 Thus saieth ye LORDE of hoostes: Execute true iudgment: shewe mercy and louynge kyndnesse, euery man to his brother:
• Eph 4:25 : 25 Wherfore put awaye lyenge, and speake euery man the trueth vnto his neghboure, for as moch as we are membres one of another.
• Ps 15:2 : 2 Euen he yt ledeth an vncorrupte life: that doth the thinge which is right, ad that speaketh the treuth from his herte.
• Prov 12:17 : 17 A iust man will tell the trueth, & shewethe thinge yt is right: but a false wytnesse disceaueth.
• Prov 12:19 : 19 A true mouth is euer constat, but a dyssemblinge toge is soone chaunged.
• Isa 9:7 : 7 he shal make no ende to encrease the kyngdome and peace, and shal syt vpon the seate of Dauid and in his kyngdome, to set vp the same, to stablish it with equyte and rightuousnesse, from thence forth for euermore. This shal the gelousy of the LORDE of hoostes bringe to passe.
• Zech 8:19 : 19 thus sayeth the LORDE of hoostes: The fast of the fourth moneth, the fast of the fifth, the fast of the seuenth, and the fast of the tenth, shal be ioye and gladnesse, & prosperous hye feastes vnto the house of Iuda: Only, loue the treuth and peace.
• Luke 3:8-9 : 8 Take hede, brynge forth due frutes of repetauce, & begynne not to saye: We haue Abraha to or father. For I saye vnto you: God is able of these stones to rayse vp children vnto Abraham. 9 The axe is put vnto the tre allready: so that euery tre which bryngeth not forth good frute, shalbe hewen downe, and cast in to the fyre. 10 And the people axed him, and sayde: What shal we do then? 11 He answered, & sayde vnto the: He that hath two coates, let him parte wt him yt hath none: and he that hath meate, let him do likewyse. 12 The publicans came also, to be baptysed and sayde vnto him: Master, what shal we do? 13 He sayde vnto them: Requyre nomore, then is appoynted you. 14 Then ye soudyours axed him likewyse, and sayde: What shal we do then? And he sayde vnto the: Do no man violence ner wronge, and be content with youre wages.
• Eph 4:17 : 17 This I saye therfore, and testifye in the LORDE, that ye walke nomore as ye other Heythen walke in the vanite of their mynde,
• Matt 5:9 : 9 Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shalbe called the chyldren of God.
• Lev 19:11 : 11 Ye shal not steale, nether lye, ner deale falsely one with another.
• Deut 10:12-13 : 12 Now Israel, what requyreth the LORDE thy God of the, but yt thou feare the LORDE thy God, and that thou walke in all his wayes, & loue him, & serue the LORDE yi God with all thy hert, & with all thy soule: 13 and yt thou kepe the comaundementes of ye LORDE, & his ordinaunces, which I comaunde the this daye, yt thou mayest prospere?
• Deut 11:7-8 : 7 For youre eyes haue sene the greate workes of ye LORDE, which he hath done. 8 Therfore shal ye kepe all the commaundementes which I commaunde you this daye, that ye maye be stronge to come in, and to conquere the londe, whither ye go to possesse it,
• 1 Thess 4:6 : 6 And that no man go to farre, ner defraude his brother in bargayninge. For the LORDE is the auenger of all soch thinges, as we haue sayde & testified vnto you afore tyme.
• 1 Pet 1:13-16 : 13 Wherfore gyrde op the loynes off youre mynde, be sober, and trust perfectly on the grace that is brought vnto you, by the declarynge of Iesus Christ, 14 as obedient childre, not fasshionynge youre selues to yor olde lustes of ignoraunce: 15 but as he which hath called you is holy, eue so be ye holy also in all youre conuersacion: 16 for it it wrytte: Be ye holy, for I am holy.
• Rev 21:8 : 8 But the fearefull and vnbeleuynge, and the abhominable, and murthurers, and whormongers, and sorcerers, and ydolaters, & all lyars, shal haue their parte in the lake, that burneth with fyre and brymstone, which is the seconde death.
• Isa 11:3-9 : 3 and shal make him feruent in the feare of God. For he shal not geue sentece, after the thinge yt shal be brought before his eies, nether reproue a matter at the first hearinge: 4 but with rightousnesse shal he iudge the poore, and with holynes shal he refourme the symple of the worlde. He shal smyte ye worlde with ye staff of his mouth, & with ye breath of his mouth shal he slaye the wicked. 5 Rightuousnesse shalbe the gyrdle of his loynes, treuth and faithfulnesse the gyrdinge vp of his raynes. 6 The shal ye wolfe dwel with the labe, and the leoparde shal lye downe by the gote. Bullokes, lyons and catel shal kepe company together, so that a litle childe shal dryue them forth. 7 The cowe and the Bere shal fede together, and their yongones shal lye together. The lyo shal eate strawe like the oxe, or the cowe. 8 The childe whyle he sucketh, shal haue a desyre to the serpentes nest, and whe he is weened, he shal put his hande in to the Cockatryce denne. 9 Noman shal do euel to another, no man shal destro another, in all the hill of my Sanctuary. For the earth shalbe ful of ye knowlege of ye LORDE, euen as though the water of the see flowed ouer the earth.
• Jer 9:3-5 : 3 They bede their tuges like bowes, to shute out lies: As for the treuth, they maye nothinge awaye with all in the worlde. For they go from one wickednes to another, and holde nothinge of me, saieth the LORDE. 4 Yee one must kepe himself from another, no man maye safely trust his owne brother: for one brother vndermyneth another, & one neghboure begyleth another. 5 Yee one dissembleth with another, and they deale with no treuth. They haue practised their tunges to lye, and taken greate paynes to do myschefe.
• Hos 4:1-2 : 1 Heare ye worde of the LORDE, o ye children of Israel: For the LORDE must punysh the, yt dwel in the londe. And why? There is no faithfulnesse, there is no mercy, there is no knowlege of God in the lode: 2 but swearinge, lyege, maslaughter, theft and aduoutry haue gotten the ouerhande, & one bloudgiltynesse foloweth another.
• Amos 5:15 : 15 Hate the euell, and loue the good: set vp right agayne in the porte: & (no doute) the LORDE God of hoostes shall be mercifull vnto the remnaunt of Ioseph.
• Amos 5:24 : 24 but se that equyte flowe as the water, and rightuousnesse as a mightie streame.
• Mic 6:8 : 8 I wil shewe the (O ma) what is good, and what the LORDE requyreth off the: Namely, to do right, to haue pleasure in louynge kyndnesse, to be lowly, and to walke with thy God:
• Mic 6:12 : 12 amonge those that be full off riches vnrightuously gotten: where the citesyns deale with falsede, speake lyes, and haue disceatfull tunges in their mouthes?