Zechariah 2:13

Authorized King James Version (1611)

Be silent, O all flesh, before the LORD: for he is raised up out of his holy habitation.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

כִּ֠י הִנְנִ֨י מֵנִ֤יף אֶת־יָדִי֙ עֲלֵיהֶ֔ם וְהָי֥וּ שָׁלָ֖ל לְעַבְדֵיהֶ֑ם וִֽידַעְתֶּ֕ם כִּֽי־יְהוָ֥ה צְבָא֖וֹת שְׁלָחָֽנִי׃ ס

Transliteration

For hinnî mēnîp ʾet-yādî upon them and wəhāyû šālāl ləʿabdêhem and wîdaʿtem that-YHWH ṣəbāʾôt šəlāḥānî

Grammar Details

• *hinnî*: interjection + 1st person singular suffix - behold me
• *mēnîp*: participle masculine singular Hiphil of *nûp* - waving/brandishing
• *yādî*: noun feminine singular + 1st person singular suffix - my hand
• *wəhāyû*: conjunction + 3rd person plural perfect Qal of *hāyāh* - and they will be
• *šālāl*: noun masculine singular - spoil/plunder
• *ləʿabdêhem*: preposition + noun masculine plural + 3rd person masculine plural suffix - to their servants
• *wîdaʿtem*: conjunction + 2nd person masculine plural perfect Qal of *yādaʿ* - and you will know
• *YHWH*: divine name - LORD/Yahweh
• *ṣəbāʾôt*: noun feminine plural - hosts/armies
• *šəlāḥānî*: 3rd person masculine singular perfect Qal of *šālaḥ* + 1st person singular suffix - he sent me

Word Meanings

• *mēnîp*: waving/brandishing/swinging/shaking
• *šālāl*: spoil/plunder/booty/prey

Referenced Verses

• Hab 2:20 : 20 But the LORD [is] in his holy temple: let all the earth keep silence before him.
• Ps 68:5 : 5 A father of the fatherless, and a judge of the widows, [is] God in his holy habitation.
• Ps 78:65 : 65 Then the Lord awaked as one out of sleep, [and] like a mighty man that shouteth by reason of wine.
• Isa 26:20-21 : 20 ¶ Come, my people, enter thou into thy chambers, and shut thy doors about thee: hide thyself as it were for a little moment, until the indignation be overpast. 21 For, behold, the LORD cometh out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity: the earth also shall disclose her blood, and shall no more cover her slain.
• Isa 51:9 : 9 ¶ Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of the LORD; awake, as in the ancient days, in the generations of old. [Art] thou not it that hath cut Rahab, [and] wounded the dragon?
• Zeph 1:7 : 7 ¶ Hold thy peace at the presence of the Lord GOD: for the day of the LORD [is] at hand: for the LORD hath prepared a sacrifice, he hath bid his guests.
• Deut 26:15 : 15 Look down from thy holy habitation, from heaven, and bless thy people Israel, and the land which thou hast given us, as thou swarest unto our fathers, a land that floweth with milk and honey.
• Ps 46:10 : 10 Be still, and know that I [am] God: I will be exalted among the heathen, I will be exalted in the earth.
• 2 Chr 30:27 : 27 Then the priests the Levites arose and blessed the people: and their voice was heard, and their prayer came [up] to his holy dwelling place, [even] unto heaven.
• Ps 11:4 : 4 ¶ The LORD [is] in his holy temple, the LORD'S throne [is] in heaven: his eyes behold, his eyelids try, the children of men.
• Zeph 3:8 : 8 ¶ Therefore wait ye upon me, saith the LORD, until the day that I rise up to the prey: for my determination [is] to gather the nations, that I may assemble the kingdoms, to pour upon them mine indignation, [even] all my fierce anger: for all the earth shall be devoured with the fire of my jealousy.
• Rom 3:19 : 19 ¶ Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God.
• Rom 9:20 : 20 Nay but, O man, who art thou that repliest against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed [it], Why hast thou made me thus?
• Isa 57:5 : 5 Enflaming yourselves with idols under every green tree, slaying the children in the valleys under the clifts of the rocks?
• Isa 57:15 : 15 For thus saith the high and lofty One that inhabiteth eternity, whose name [is] Holy; I dwell in the high and holy [place], with him also [that is] of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite ones.
• Isa 63:15 : 15 ¶ Look down from heaven, and behold from the habitation of thy holiness and of thy glory: where [is] thy zeal and thy strength, the sounding of thy bowels and of thy mercies toward me? are they restrained?
• Jer 25:30 : 30 ¶ Therefore prophesy thou against them all these words, and say unto them, The LORD shall roar from on high, and utter his voice from his holy habitation; he shall mightily roar upon his habitation; he shall give a shout, as they that tread [the grapes], against all the inhabitants of the earth.
• Isa 42:13-15 : 13 ¶ The LORD shall go forth as a mighty man, he shall stir up jealousy like a man of war: he shall cry, yea, roar; he shall prevail against his enemies. 14 I have long time holden my peace; I have been still, [and] refrained myself: [now] will I cry like a travailing woman; I will destroy and devour at once. 15 I will make waste mountains and hills, and dry up all their herbs; and I will make the rivers islands, and I will dry up the pools.