Definitions
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- proper noun biblical A book of the
Old Testament and theHebrew Tanakh . - proper noun A male
given name , rarely used in this form.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a Hebrew minor prophet of the late 6th century BC
- noun an Old Testament book telling the prophecies of Zechariah which are concerned mainly with the renewal of Israel after the Babylonian Captivity
Etymologies
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Examples
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You can imagine how discouraged he must have been, but then, after ten years had passed, a prophet by the name of Zechariah came by.
It’s Your Time Joel Osteen 2010
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You can imagine how discouraged he must have been, but then, after ten years had passed, a prophet by the name of Zechariah came by.
It’s Your Time Joel Osteen 2010
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You can imagine how discouraged he must have been, but then, after ten years had passed, a prophet by the name of Zechariah came by.
It’s Your Time JOEL OSTEEN 2009
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The word in Zechariah means to thrust through with spear, javelin, sword, or any such weapon.
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Babylon alone of the four great world kingdoms had in Zechariah's time been finally punished; therefore, in its case alone does God now say His anger is satisfied; the others had as yet to expiate their sin; the fourth has still to do so.
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Herein Zechariah shows that the Jews by their own idolatry had stayed the grace of God heretofore, which otherwise would have given them all those blessings, temporal and spiritual, which they are now (Zec 10: 1) urged to "ask" for. diviners -- who gave responses to consulters of the teraphim: opposed to
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Naturally the "angel that talked with" Zechariah is desired to "speak to" him the further communications to be made from the Divine Being. towns without walls for the multitude ...
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I will feed -- "I fed" [Calvin], which comes to the same thing, as the past tense must in Zechariah's time have referred to the event of
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Another special characteristic of Zechariah is his introduction of spiritual beings into his prophetic scenes.
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Many of the Jews in Zechariah's time had not yet returned to Judea.
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