Zechariah 10:6

Geneva Bible (1560)

And I will strengthen the house of Iudah, and I will preserue the house of Ioseph, and I wil bring them againe, for I pitie them: and they shall be as though I had not cast them off: for I am the Lord their God, and will heare them.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וְגִבַּרְתִּ֣י ׀ אֶת־בֵּ֣ית יְהוּדָ֗ה וְאֶת־בֵּ֤ית יוֹסֵף֙ אוֹשִׁ֔יעַ וְהֽוֹשְׁבוֹתִים֙ כִּ֣י רִֽחַמְתִּ֔ים וְהָי֖וּ כַּאֲשֶׁ֣ר לֹֽא־זְנַחְתִּ֑ים כִּ֗י אֲנִ֛י יְהוָ֥ה אֱלֹהֵיהֶ֖ם וְאֶעֱנֵֽם׃

Transliteration

And-gibbarti 'et-beit Yehudah and-'et-beit Yosef oshi'a and-hoshavotim for richamtim and-hayu as lo-zenachtim for 'ani YHWH 'eloheihem and-'e'enem.

Grammar Details

• *gibbarti*: Piel perfect, 1st singular - I will strengthen
• *'et*: direct object marker
• *beit*: masculine singular construct - house of
• *Yehudah*: proper name - Judah
• *Yosef*: proper name - Joseph
• *oshi'a*: Hiphil imperfect, 1st singular - I will save
• *hoshavotim*: Hiphil perfect, 1st singular with 3rd masculine plural suffix - I will cause them to dwell/settle
• *richamtim*: Piel perfect, 1st singular with 3rd masculine plural suffix - I have had mercy on them
• *hayu*: Qal perfect, 3rd plural - they will be
• *lo*: negative particle - not
• *zenachtim*: Qal perfect, 1st singular with 3rd masculine plural suffix - I had rejected them
• *'ani*: 1st person singular pronoun - I
• *YHWH*: proper name - LORD
• *'eloheihem*: masculine plural noun with 3rd masculine plural suffix - their God
• *'e'enem*: Qal imperfect, 1st singular with 3rd masculine plural suffix - I will answer them

Word Meanings

• *gibbarti*: I will strengthen/make mighty/empower
• *oshi'a*: I will save/deliver/give victory
• *hoshavotim*: I will cause them to dwell/restore them/bring them back
• *richamtim*: I have had mercy on them/showed compassion
• *zenachtim*: I had rejected them/cast them off/spurned them
• *'e'enem*: I will answer them/respond to them/hear them

Referenced Verses

• Zech 13:9 : 9 And I will bring that third part thorowe the fire, and will fine them as the siluer is fined, and will trye them as golde is tryed: they shall call on my Name, and I will heare them: I will say, It is my people, and they shall say, The Lorde is my God.
• Zech 10:12 : 12 And I will strengthen them in the Lorde, and they shall walke in his Name, sayth the Lorde.
• Isa 14:1 : 1 For the Lord wil haue compassion of Iaakob, and wil yet chuse Israel, and cause them to rest in their owne lande: and the stranger shall ioyne him selfe vnto them, and they shall cleaue to the house of Iaakob.
• Jer 3:18 : 18 In those daies ye house of Iudah shall walke with the house of Israel, and they shall come together out of the lande of the North, into the lande, that I haue giuen for an inheritance vnto your fathers.
• Jer 23:6 : 6 In his dayes Iudah shalbe saued, and Israel shall dwell safely, and this is the Name wherby they shall call him, The Lorde our righteousnesse.
• Jer 30:18 : 18 Thus saith the Lorde, Beholde, I will bring againe the captiuitie of Iaakobs tentes, and haue compassion on his dwelling places: and the citie shalbe builded vpon her owne heape, and the palace shall remaine after the maner thereof.
• Jer 31:1 : 1 At the same time, saith the Lorde, will I be the God of all the families of Israel, and they shall be my people.
• Jer 31:20 : 20 Is Ephraim my deare sonne or pleasant childe? yet since I spake vnto him, I still remembred him: therefore my bowels are troubled for him: I wil surely haue compassion vpon him, saith the Lorde.
• Jer 31:31 : 31 Beholde, the dayes come, saith the Lord, that I will make a new couenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Iudah,
• Jer 33:2-3 : 2 Thus sayth the Lord, the maker thereof, the Lord that formed it, and established it, the Lord is his Name. 3 Call vnto me, and I will answere thee, and shewe thee great and mightie things, which thou knowest not.
• Ezek 36:11 : 11 And I wil multiply vpon you man & beast, and they shal encrease, and bring fruite, and I will cause you to dwell after your olde estate, & I will bestowe benefites vpon you more then at the first, and ye shal know that I am the Lord.
• Ezek 36:37 : 37 Thus saith the Lord God, I will yet for this be sought of ye house of Israel, to performe it vnto them: I wil encrease them with men like a flocke.
• Ezek 37:16 : 16 Moreouer thou sonne of man, take thee a piece of wood, and write vpon it, Vnto Iudah, and to the children of Israel his companions the take another piece of wood, and write vpon it, Vnto Ioseph the tree of Ephraim, and to al the house of Israel his companions.
• Ezek 39:25 : 25 Therefore thus sayth the Lord God, Nowe will I bring againe the captiuitie of Iaakob, and haue compassion vpon the whole house of Israel, and wil be ielous for mine holy Name,
• Hos 1:7 : 7 Yet I will haue mercie vpon the house of Iudah, and wil saue them by the Lord their God, and wil not saue them by bow, nor by sword nor by battell, by horses, nor by horsemen.
• Hos 1:11 : 11 Then shall the children of Iudah, and the children of Israel be gathered together, and appoint them selues one head, & they shal come vp out of the land: for great is the day of Izreel.
• Hos 2:23 : 23 And I will sowe her vnto me in the earth, and I will haue mercie vpon her, that was not pitied, and I will say to them which were not my people, Thou art my people; they shal say, Thou art my God.
• Obad 1:18 : 18 And the house of Iaakob shalbe a fire, & the house of Ioseph a flame, and the house of Esau as stubble, and they shall kindle in them and deuoure them: and there shall bee no remnant of the house of Esau for the Lord hath spoken it.
• Mic 4:6 : 6 At the same day, saith the Lorde, will I gather her that halteth, and I will gather her that is cast out, and her that I haue afflicted.
• Mic 4:13 : 13 Arise, and thresh, O daughter Zion: for I will make thine horne yron, and I will make thine hooues brasse, and thou shalt breake in pieces many people: and I will consecrate their riches vnto the Lord, and their substance vnto the ruler of the whole worlde.
• Mic 5:8 : 8 And the remnant of Iaakob shalbe among the Gentiles in the middes of many people, as the lyon among the beastes of the forest, and as the lyons whelpe among the flockes of sheepe, who when he goeth thorow, treadeth downe and teareth in pieces, and none can deliuer.
• Mic 7:16 : 16 The nations shall see, and be confounded for all their power: they shall lay their hande vpon their mouth: their eares shall be deafe.
• Mic 7:18-20 : 18 Who is a God like vnto thee, that taketh away iniquitie, and passeth by the transgression of the remnant of his heritage! He reteineth not his wrath for euer, because mercie pleaseth him. 19 He will turne againe, and haue compassion vpon vs: he will subdue our iniquities, and cast all their sinnes into the bottome of the sea. 20 Thou wilt perfourme thy trueth to Iaakob, and mercie to Abraham, as thou hast sworne vnto our fathers in olde time.
• Zeph 3:19-20 : 19 Beholde, at that time I will bruise all that afflict thee, and I will saue her that halteth, and gather her that was cast out, and I will get them praise and fame in all the landes of their shame. 20 At that time wil I bring you againe, & then wil I gather you: for I wil giue you a name & a praise among all people of the earth, when I turne backe your captiuitie before your eyes, saith the Lorde.
• Zech 8:7-8 : 7 Thus sayth the Lord of hostes, Beholde, I will deliuer my people from the East countrey, and from the West countrey. 8 And I wil bring them, & they shal dwel in the mids of Ierusalem, & they shalbe my people, & I wil be their God in trueth, & in righteousnes.
• Zech 8:11 : 11 But nowe, I wil not intreate the residue of this people as aforetime, saith the Lord of hostes.
• Isa 41:10 : 10 Feare thou not, for I am with thee: be not afraide, for I am thy God: I will strengthen thee, and helpe thee, and will susteine thee with the right hand of my iustice.
• Isa 41:17-20 : 17 When the poore and the needy seeke water, & there is none (their tongue faileth for thirst: I the Lorde will heare them: I the God of Israel will not forsake them) 18 I will open riuers in the toppes of the hils, and fountaines in the middes of the valleis: I will make the wildernesse as a poole of water, and the waste land as springs of water. 19 I will set in the wildernesse the cedar, the shittah tree, and the mirre tree, and the pine tree, and I will set in the wildernesse the firre tree, the elme and the boxe tree together. 20 Therefore let them see and knowe, and let them consider and vnderstande together that the hand of the Lord hath done this, & the holy one of Israel hath created it.
• Isa 49:17-21 : 17 Thy builders make haste: thy destroiers and they that made thee waste, are departed from thee. 18 Lift vp thine eies round about and behold: all these gather themselues together and come to thee: as I liue, sayeth the Lorde, thou shalt surely put them all vpon thee as a garment, and girde thy selfe with them like a bride. 19 For thy desolations, and thy waste places, and thy land destroied, shall surely be now narow for them that shall dwell in it, and they that did deuoure thee, shalbe farre away. 20 The children of thy barennesse shall say againe in thine eares, The place is straict for mee: giue place to me that I may dwell. 21 Then shalt thou say in thine heart, Who hath begotten mee these, seeing I am baren and desolate, a captiue and a wanderer to and fro? And who hath nourished them? Beholde, I was left alone: whence are these?
• Ps 89:21 : 21 Therefore mine hande shall be established with him, and mine arme shall strengthen him.
• Rom 11:25-26 : 25 For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this secret (least ye should bee arrogant in your selues) that partly obstinacie is come to Israel, vntill the fulnesse of the Gentiles be come in. 26 And so all Israel shalbe saued, as it is written, The deliuerer shall come out of Sion, and shall turne away the vngodlinesse from Iacob.