Zechariah 14:10

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

All the land shall be turned as a plain from Geba to Rimmon south of Jerusalem: and it shall be lifted up, and inhabited in her place, from Benjamin's gate unto the place of the first gate, unto the corner gate, and from the tower of Hananeel unto the king's winepresses.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

יִסּ֨וֹב כָּל־הָאָ֤רֶץ כָּעֲרָבָה֙ מִגֶּ֣בַע לְרִמּ֔וֹן נֶ֖גֶב יְרֽוּשָׁלָ֑͏ִם וְֽרָאֲמָה֩ וְיָשְׁבָ֨ה תַחְתֶּ֜יהָ לְמִשַּׁ֣עַר בִּנְיָמִ֗ן עַד־מְק֞וֹם שַׁ֤עַר הָֽרִאשׁוֹן֙ עַד־שַׁ֣עַר הַפִּנִּ֔ים וּמִגְדַּ֣ל חֲנַנְאֵ֔ל עַ֖ד יִקְבֵ֥י הַמֶּֽלֶךְ׃

Transliteration

Yissôb kol-hāʾāreṣ kāʿărābâ miGgebaʿ ləRimmôn negeb yərûšālāim wərāʾămâ wəyāšəbâ taḥtêhā ləmiššaʿar Binyāmin ʿad-məqôm šaʿar hāʾrišôn ʿad-šaʿar happinnîm ûmigdal Ḥănanʾēl ʿad yiqbê hammelek.

Grammar Details

• *Yissôb*: qal imperfect 3rd masculine singular - will be turned/changed
• *kol-hāʾāreṣ*: masculine singular construct + feminine singular noun with definite article - all the land
• *kāʿărābâ*: preposition + feminine singular noun with definite article - like the Arabah/plain
• *miGgebaʿ*: preposition + proper noun - from Geba
• *ləRimmôn*: preposition + proper noun - to Rimmon
• *negeb*: masculine singular construct - south of
• *yərûšālāim*: proper noun - Jerusalem
• *wərāʾămâ*: waw-consecutive + qal perfect 3rd feminine singular - and will be lifted up
• *wəyāšəbâ*: waw-consecutive + qal perfect 3rd feminine singular - and will remain/dwell
• *taḥtêhā*: preposition with 3rd feminine singular suffix - in her place
• *ləmiššaʿar*: preposition + preposition + masculine singular construct - from gate of
• *Binyāmin*: proper noun - Benjamin
• *ʿad-məqôm*: preposition + masculine singular construct - to place of
• *šaʿar*: masculine singular construct - gate of
• *hāʾrišôn*: adjective masculine singular with definite article - the first
• *ʿad-šaʿar*: preposition + masculine singular construct - to gate of
• *happinnîm*: masculine plural noun with definite article - the corners
• *ûmigdal*: waw-conjunction + masculine singular construct - and tower of
• *Ḥănanʾēl*: proper noun - Hananel
• *ʿad*: preposition - to
• *yiqbê*: masculine plural construct - wine vats of
• *hammelek*: masculine singular noun with definite article - the king

Word Meanings

• *Yissôb*: will be turned/changed/transformed
• *kāʿărābâ*: like the Arabah/plain/desert
• *wərāʾămâ*: will be lifted up/raised/exalted
• *wəyāšəbâ*: will remain/dwell/be inhabited
• *taḥtêhā*: in her place/under her/in her site
• *happinnîm*: the corners/angles
• *yiqbê*: wine vats/wine presses

Referenced Verses

• Zech 12:6 : 6 In that day will I make the governors of Judah like an hearth of fire among the wood, and like a torch of fire in a sheaf; and they shall devour all the people round about, on the right hand and on the left: and Jerusalem shall be inhabited again in her own place, even in Jerusalem.
• Josh 15:32 : 32 And Lebaoth, and Shilhim, and Ain, and Rimmon: all the cities are twenty and nine, with their villages:
• 1 Kgs 15:22 : 22 Then king Asa made a proclamation throughout all Judah; none was exempted: and they took away the stones of Ramah, and the timber thereof, wherewith Baasha had builded; and king Asa built with them Geba of Benjamin, and Mizpah.
• Jer 30:18 : 18 Thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will bring again the captivity of Jacob's tents, and have mercy on his dwellingplaces; and the city shall be builded upon her own heap, and the palace shall remain after the manner thereof.
• Jer 37:13 : 13 And when he was in the gate of Benjamin, a captain of the ward was there, whose name was Irijah, the son of Shelemiah, the son of Hananiah; and he took Jeremiah the prophet, saying, Thou fallest away to the Chaldeans.
• Jer 38:7 : 7 Now when Ebedmelech the Ethiopian, one of the eunuchs which was in the king's house, heard that they had put Jeremiah in the dungeon; the king then sitting in the gate of Benjamin;
• Neh 3:1 : 1 Then Eliashib the high priest rose up with his brethren the priests, and they builded the sheep gate; they sanctified it, and set up the doors of it; even unto the tower of Meah they sanctified it, unto the tower of Hananeel.
• Judg 20:45 : 45 And they turned and fled toward the wilderness unto the rock of Rimmon: and they gleaned of them in the highways five thousand men; and pursued hard after them unto Gidom, and slew two thousand men of them.
• Judg 20:47 : 47 But six hundred men turned and fled to the wilderness unto the rock Rimmon, and abode in the rock Rimmon four months.
• Zech 2:4 : 4 And said unto him, Run, speak to this young man, saying, Jerusalem shall be inhabited as towns without walls for the multitude of men and cattle therein:
• Zech 4:6-7 : 6 Then he answered and spake unto me, saying, This is the word of the LORD unto Zerubbabel, saying, Not by might, nor by power, but by my spirit, saith the LORD of hosts. 7 Who art thou, O great mountain? before Zerubbabel thou shalt become a plain: and he shall bring forth the headstone thereof with shoutings, crying, Grace, grace unto it.
• Luke 3:4-6 : 4 As it is written in the book of the words of Esaias the prophet, saying, The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make his paths straight. 5 Every valley shall be filled, and every mountain and hill shall be brought low; and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough ways shall be made smooth; 6 And all flesh shall see the salvation of God.
• Judg 21:13 : 13 And the whole congregation sent some to speak to the children of Benjamin that were in the rock Rimmon, and to call peaceably unto them.
• Josh 21:17 : 17 And out of the tribe of Benjamin, Gibeon with her suburbs, Geba with her suburbs,
• 1 Chr 4:32 : 32 And their villages were, Etam, and Ain, Rimmon, and Tochen, and Ashan, five cities:
• 1 Chr 6:77 : 77 Unto the rest of the children of Merari were given out of the tribe of Zebulun, Rimmon with her suburbs, Tabor with her suburbs:
• 2 Chr 25:23 : 23 And Joash the king of Israel took Amaziah king of Judah, the son of Joash, the son of Jehoahaz, at Bethshemesh, and brought him to Jerusalem, and brake down the wall of Jerusalem from the gate of Ephraim to the corner gate, four hundred cubits.
• Neh 12:39 : 39 And from above the gate of Ephraim, and above the old gate, and above the fish gate, and the tower of Hananeel, and the tower of Meah, even unto the sheep gate: and they stood still in the prison gate.
• Isa 2:2 : 2 And it shall come to pass in the last days, that the mountain of the LORD'S house shall be established in the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations shall flow unto it.
• Isa 10:29 : 29 They are gone over the passage: they have taken up their lodging at Geba; Ramah is afraid; Gibeah of Saul is fled.
• Isa 40:3-4 : 3 The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the LORD, make straight in the desert a highway for our God. 4 Every valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill shall be made low: and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough places plain:
• Amos 9:11 : 11 In that day will I raise up the tabernacle of David that is fallen, and close up the breaches thereof; and I will raise up his ruins, and I will build it as in the days of old:
• Jer 31:38-40 : 38 Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that the city shall be built to the LORD from the tower of Hananeel unto the gate of the corner. 39 And the measuring line shall yet go forth over against it upon the hill Gareb, and shall compass about to Goath. 40 And the whole valley of the dead bodies, and of the ashes, and all the fields unto the brook of Kidron, unto the corner of the horse gate toward the east, shall be holy unto the LORD; it shall not be plucked up, nor thrown down any more for ever.