Zechariah 9:12

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

Turn you to the strong hold, ye prisoners of hope: even to day do I declare that I will render double unto thee;

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

שׁ֚וּבוּ לְבִצָּר֔וֹן אֲסִירֵ֖י הַתִּקְוָ֑ה גַּם־הַיּ֕וֹם מַגִּ֥יד מִשְׁנֶ֖ה אָשִׁ֥יב לָֽךְ׃

Transliteration

šûḇû to-biṣṣārôn ʾăsîrê the-tiqwāh also-the-yôm maggiḏ mišneh ʾāšîḇ to-you.

Grammar Details

*šûḇû*: verb, qal imperative, masculine plural - return
*lə*: preposition - to
*biṣṣārôn*: noun, masculine, singular - stronghold/fortress
*ʾăsîrê*: noun, masculine, plural, construct - prisoners of
*ha*: definite article - the
*tiqwāh*: noun, feminine, singular - hope
*gam*: adverb - also/even
*yôm*: noun, masculine, singular - day
*maggiḏ*: verb, hiphil participle, masculine singular - declaring
*mišneh*: noun, masculine, singular - double portion
*ʾāšîḇ*: verb, hiphil imperfect, 1st person singular - I will restore
*lāḵ*: preposition + 2nd person feminine singular suffix - to you

Word Meanings

*šûḇû*: return/come back/turn
*biṣṣārôn*: stronghold/fortress/place of security
*ʾăsîrê* *ha*-*tiqwāh*: prisoners of hope/hopeful prisoners/captives with hope
*maggiḏ*: declaring/announcing/proclaiming
*mišneh*: double portion/twice as much/double
*ʾāšîḇ*: I will restore/I will return/I will repay

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Referenced Verses

Job 42:10 : 10 And the LORD turned the captivity of Job, when he prayed for his friends: also the LORD gave Job twice as much as he had before.
Lam 3:21-22 : 21 This I recall to my mind, therefore have I hope. 22 It is of the LORD'S mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not.
Mic 4:8 : 8 And thou, O tower of the flock, the strong hold of the daughter of Zion, unto thee shall it come, even the first dominion; the kingdom shall come to the daughter of Jerusalem.
Jer 51:10 : 10 The LORD hath brought forth our righteousness: come, and let us declare in Zion the work of the LORD our God.
Heb 6:18 : 18 That by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us:
Isa 40:2 : 2 Speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem, and cry unto her, that her warfare is accomplished, that her iniquity is pardoned: for she hath received of the LORD'S hand double for all her sins.
Isa 61:7 : 7 For your shame ye shall have double; and for confusion they shall rejoice in their portion: therefore in their land they shall possess the double: everlasting joy shall be unto them.
Jer 31:17 : 17 And there is hope in thine end, saith the LORD, that thy children shall come again to their own border.
Jer 50:4-5 : 4 In those days, and in that time, saith the LORD, the children of Israel shall come, they and the children of Judah together, going and weeping: they shall go, and seek the LORD their God. 5 They shall ask the way to Zion with their faces thitherward, saying, Come, and let us join ourselves to the LORD in a perpetual covenant that shall not be forgotten.
Jer 50:28 : 28 The voice of them that flee and escape out of the land of Babylon, to declare in Zion the vengeance of the LORD our God, the vengeance of his temple.
Jer 31:6 : 6 For there shall be a day, that the watchmen upon the mount Ephraim shall cry, Arise ye, and let us go up to Zion unto the LORD our God.
Isa 49:9 : 9 That thou mayest say to the prisoners, Go forth; to them that are in darkness, Shew yourselves. They shall feed in the ways, and their pastures shall be in all high places.
Isa 52:2 : 2 Shake thyself from the dust; arise, and sit down, O Jerusalem: loose thyself from the bands of thy neck, O captive daughter of Zion.
Isa 38:18 : 18 For the grave cannot praise thee, death can not celebrate thee: they that go down into the pit cannot hope for thy truth.
Nah 1:7 : 7 The LORD is good, a strong hold in the day of trouble; and he knoweth them that trust in him.
Ezek 37:11 : 11 Then he said unto me, Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel: behold, they say, Our bones are dried, and our hope is lost: we are cut off for our parts.
Hos 2:15 : 15 And I will give her her vineyards from thence, and the valley of Achor for a door of hope: and she shall sing there, as in the days of her youth, and as in the day when she came up out of the land of Egypt.
Joel 3:16 : 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.

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