Zechariah 5:6 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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Chapter 5

⁶And I said, What is it? And he said, This is an ephah that goeth forth. He said moreover, This is their resemblance through all the earth.

Zechariah 5:6 —

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Original word meaning

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Amos 8:5
Saying, When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell corn? and the sabbath, that we may set forth wheat, making the ephah small, and the shekel great, and falsifying the balances by deceit?
Ezekiel 44:10-11
And the Levites that are gone away far from me, when Israel went astray, which went astray away from me after their idols; they shall even bear their iniquity. …

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 5-11)

The foregoing vision was very plain and easy, but in this are things dark and hard to be understood; and some think that the scope of it is to foretel the final destruction of the Jewish church and nation and the dispersion of the Jews, when, by crucifying Christ and persecuting his gospel, they should have filled up the measure of their iniquities; therefore it is industriously set out in obscure…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 6)

6. This is their resemblance--literally, “eye” (compare Eze 1:4, 5, 16). Hengstenberg translates, “Their (the people’s) eye” was all directed to evil. But English Version is better. “This is the appearance (that is, an image) of the Jews in all the land” (not as English Version, “in all the earth”), that is, of the wicked Jews. This--Here used of what was within the ephah, not the ephah itself.