Zechariah 10:2
King James Version
12 Jun 2026
“For the idols have spoken vanity, and the diviners have seen a lie, and have told false dreams; they comfort in vain: therefore they went their way as a flock, they were troubled, because there was no shepherd.”
כֵּן
properly, set upright; hence (figuratively as adjective) just; but usually (as adverb or conjunction) rightly or so (in various applications to manner, time and relation; often with other particles)
הֶבֶל
futility
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הֶבֶל
Vanity, breath, emptiness. Hebel. A breath that vanishes, emptiness. Ecclesiastes says everything apart from God is hebel. It looks solid but it is vapor. Only God endures.
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רָעָה
is a shepherd
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רָעָה
To shepherd, to tend, to feed. Raah. To care for a flock with total devotion. The LORD is my shepherd. He takes personal responsibility for every need.
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עַל
there-
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עַל
above, over, upon, or against (yet always in this last relation with a downward aspect) in a great variety of applications
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דָבַר
they speak
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דָבַר
perhaps properly, to arrange; but used figuratively (of words), to speak; rarely (in a destructive sense) to subdue
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עָנָה
they are afflicted
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עָנָה
to depress literally or figuratively, transitive or intransitive (in various applications, as follows)
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נָחַם
they comfort/ !
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נָחַם
To comfort, to console. Nacham. God's comfort is not distant advice but personal presence in the pain.
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חָזָה
they see
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חָזָה
to gaze at; mentally to perceive, contemplate (with pleasure); specifically, to have avision of
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צֹאן
sheep
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צֹאן
a collective name for a flock (of sheep or goats); also figuratively (of men)
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נָסַע
they have set out
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נָסַע
properly, to pull up, especially the tent-pins, i.e. start on ajourney
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כְּמוֹ
like
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כְּמוֹ
a form of the prefix 'k-', but used separately as, thus, so
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שֶׁקֶר
falsehood
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שֶׁקֶר
an untruth; by implication, a sham (often adverbial)
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