Zechariah 10:5

King James Version 1611 (Original)

And they shall be as mighty men, which tread down their enemies in the mire of the streets in the battle: and they shall fight, because the LORD 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 heathen; 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 remember the name of the LORD our God.
• Ps 33:16 : 16 There is no king saved by the multitude of an host: a mighty man is not delivered by much strength.
• Ps 45:3 : 3 Gird thy sword upon thy thigh, O most mighty, with thy glory and thy majesty.
• Isa 8:9 : 9 Associate yourselves, O ye people, and ye shall be broken in pieces; and give ear, all ye of far countries: gird yourselves, and ye shall be broken in pieces; gird yourselves, and ye shall be broken in pieces.
• Isa 10:6 : 6 I will send him against an hypocritical 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 shall the hand of the LORD rest, and Moab shall be trodden down under him, even as straw is trodden down for the dunghill.
• Isa 41:12 : 12 Thou shalt seek them, and shalt not find them, even them that contended 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 north parts, thou, and many people with thee, all of them riding upon horses, a great company, and a mighty army:
• Joel 3:12-17 : 12 Let the heathen be wakened, and come up to the valley of Jehoshaphat: for there will I sit to judge all the heathen round about. 13 Put ye in the sickle, for the harvest is ripe: come, get you down; for the press is full, the fats overflow; for their wickedness is great. 14 Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision: for the day of the LORD is near in the valley of decision. 15 The sun and the moon shall be darkened, and the stars shall withdraw their shining. 16 The LORD also shall roar out of Zion, and utter his voice from Jerusalem; and the heavens and the earth shall shake: but the LORD will be the hope of his people, and the strength of the children of Israel. 17 So shall ye know that I am the LORD 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 she that is mine enemy shall see it, and shame shall cover her which said unto me, Where is the LORD thy God? mine eyes shall behold her: now shall she be trodden down as the mire of the streets.
• Deut 20:1 : 1 When thou goest out to battle against thine enemies, and seest horses, and chariots, and a people more than thou, be not afraid of them: for the LORD thy God is with thee, which 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 the LORD hearkened unto the voice of a man: for the LORD fought for Israel.
• Josh 10:42 : 42 And all these kings and their land did Joshua take at one time, because the LORD God of Israel fought for Israel.
• 1 Sam 16:18 : 18 Then answered one of the servants, and said, Behold, I have seen a son of Jesse the Bethlehemite, that is cunning in playing, and a mighty valiant man, and a man of war, and prudent in matters, and a comely person, and the LORD is with him.
• 2 Sam 22:8 : 8 Then the earth shook and trembled; the foundations of heaven moved and shook, because he was wroth.
• 2 Sam 22:43 : 43 Then did I beat them as small as the dust of the earth, I did stamp them as the mire of the street, 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 dirt in the streets.
• Zech 9:13 : 13 When I have bent Judah for me, filled the bow with Ephraim, and raised up thy sons, O Zion, against thy sons, O Greece, and made thee as the sword of a mighty man.
• Zech 12:4 : 4 In that day, saith the LORD, I will smite every horse with astonishment, and his rider with madness: and I will open mine eyes upon the house of Judah, and will smite every horse of the people with blindness.
• Zech 12:8 : 8 In that day shall the LORD 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 the LORD before them.
• Zech 14:3 : 3 Then shall the LORD 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 the LORD shall be among them; and they shall lay hold every one on the hand of his neighbour, and his hand shall rise up against the hand of his neighbour.
• Matt 4:3 : 3 And when the tempter came to him, he said, If thou be the Son of God, command that these stones be made bread.
• Matt 28:20 : 20 Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world. Amen.
• Luke 24:19 : 19 And he said unto them, What things? And they said unto him, Concerning Jesus of Nazareth, which was a prophet mighty in deed and word before God and all the people:
• Acts 7:22 : 22 And Moses was learned in all the wisdom of the Egyptians, and was mighty in words and in deeds.
• Acts 18:24 : 24 And a certain Jew named Apollos, born at Alexandria, an eloquent man, and mighty in the scriptures, came to Ephesus.
• Rom 8:31-37 : 31 What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us? 32 He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things? 33 Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God's elect? It is God that justifieth. 34 Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even 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 distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? 36 As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are 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 carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds;)
• 2 Tim 4:7 : 7 I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith:
• 2 Tim 4:17 : 17 Notwithstanding the Lord stood with me, and strengthened me; that by me the preaching might be fully known, 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 was clothed with a vesture dipped in blood: and his name is called The Word of God. 14 And the armies which were in heaven followed him upon white horses, clothed in fine linen, white and clean. 15 And out of his mouth goeth 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 of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God.
• Rev 19:17 : 17 And I saw an angel standing in the sun; and he cried with a loud voice, saying to all the fowls that fly in the midst of heaven, Come and gather yourselves together unto the supper of the great God;