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Zechariah 11

Zech. 11:8 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Three
shalowsh (Hebrew #7969)
masculine shlowshah {shel-o-shaw'}; or shloshah {shel-o-shaw'}; a primitive number; three; occasionally (ordinal) third, or (multipl.) thrice
KJV usage: + fork, + often(-times), third, thir(-teen, -teenth), three, + thrice. Compare 7991.
Pronounce: shaw-loshe'
Origin: or shalosh {shaw-loshe'}
shepherds
ra`ah (Hebrew #7462)
to tend a flock; i.e. pasture it; intransitively, to graze (literally or figuratively); generally to rule; by extension, to associate with (as a friend)
KJV usage: X break, companion, keep company with, devour, eat up, evil entreat, feed, use as a friend, make friendship with, herdman, keep (sheep)(-er), pastor, + shearing house, shepherd, wander, waste.
Pronounce: raw-aw'
Origin: a primitive root
also I cut off
kachad (Hebrew #3582)
to secrete, by act or word; hence (intensively) to destroy
KJV usage: conceal, cut down (off), desolate, hide.
Pronounce: kaw-khad'
Origin: a primitive root
in one
'echad (Hebrew #259)
properly, united, i.e. one; or (as an ordinal) first
KJV usage: a, alike, alone, altogether, and, any(-thing), apiece, a certain, (dai-)ly, each (one), + eleven, every, few, first, + highway, a man, once, one, only, other, some, together,
Pronounce: ekh-awd'
Origin: a numeral from 258
month
yerach (Hebrew #3391)
a lunation, i.e. month
KJV usage: month, moon.
Pronounce: yeh'-rakh
Origin: from a unused root of uncertain signification
m; and my soul
nephesh (Hebrew #5315)
properly, a breathing creature, i.e. animal of (abstractly) vitality; used very widely in a literal, accommodated or figurative sense (bodily or mental)
KJV usage: any, appetite, beast, body, breath, creature, X dead(-ly), desire, X (dis-)contented, X fish, ghost, + greedy, he, heart(-y), (hath, X jeopardy of) life (X in jeopardy), lust, man, me, mind, mortally, one, own, person, pleasure, (her-, him-, my-, thy-)self, them (your)-selves, + slay, soul, + tablet, they, thing, (X she) will, X would have it.
Pronounce: neh'-fesh
Origin: from 5314
πlothed
qatsar (Hebrew #7114)
to dock off, i.e. curtail (transitive or intransitive, literal or figurative); especially to harvest (grass or grain)
KJV usage: X at all, cut down, much discouraged, grieve, harvestman, lothe, mourn, reap(-er), (be, wax) short(-en, -er), straiten, trouble, vex.
Pronounce: kaw-tsar'
Origin: a primitive root
them, and their soul
nephesh (Hebrew #5315)
properly, a breathing creature, i.e. animal of (abstractly) vitality; used very widely in a literal, accommodated or figurative sense (bodily or mental)
KJV usage: any, appetite, beast, body, breath, creature, X dead(-ly), desire, X (dis-)contented, X fish, ghost, + greedy, he, heart(-y), (hath, X jeopardy of) life (X in jeopardy), lust, man, me, mind, mortally, one, own, person, pleasure, (her-, him-, my-, thy-)self, them (your)-selves, + slay, soul, + tablet, they, thing, (X she) will, X would have it.
Pronounce: neh'-fesh
Origin: from 5314
also abhorred
bachal (Hebrew #973)
to loath
KJV usage: abhor, get hastily (from the margin for 926).
Pronounce: baw-khal'
Origin: a primitive root
me.
m
Hos. 5:7• 7They have dealt treacherously against Jehovah; for they have begotten strange children: now shall the new moon devour them, with their allotted possessions. (Hos. 5:7)
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was straitened for.

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Months,
Shepherd,
Soul; Spirit,
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Cross References

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Ministry on This Verse

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Hos. 5:7• 7They have dealt treacherously against Jehovah; for they have begotten strange children: now shall the new moon devour them, with their allotted possessions. (Hos. 5:7)
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Matt. 23:34‑36• 34Therefore, behold, *I* send unto you prophets, and wise men, and scribes; and some of them ye will kill and crucify, and some of them ye will scourge in your synagogues, and will persecute from city to city;
 35so that all righteous blood shed upon the earth should come upon *you*, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zacharias son of Barachias, whom ye slew between the temple and the altar.
 36Verily I say unto you, All these things shall come upon this generation. (Matt. 23:34‑36)
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Matt. 24:50‑51• 50the lord of that bondman shall come in a day when he does not expect it, and in an hour he knows not of,
 51and shall cut him in two and appoint his portion with the hypocrites: there shall be the weeping and the gnashing of teeth. (Matt. 24:50‑51)
and my.
Lev. 26:11,30,44• 11And I will set my habitation among you; and my soul shall not abhor you;
 30And I will lay waste your high places, and cut down your sun-pillars, and cast your carcases upon the carcases of your idols; and my soul shall abhor you.
 44And yet for all that, when they are in the land of their enemies, I will not despise them, and will not abhor them, to make an end of them utterly, to break my covenant with them, for I am Jehovah their God. (Lev. 26:11,30,44)
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Deut. 32:19• 19And Jehovah saw it, and despised them, Because of the provoking of his sons and of his daughters. (Deut. 32:19)
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Psa. 5:5• 5Insolent fools shall not stand before thine eyes; thou hatest all workers of iniquity. (Psa. 5:5)
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Psa. 78:9• 9The sons of Ephraim, armed bowmen, turned back in the day of battle. (Psa. 78:9)
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Psa. 106:40• 40Then was the anger of Jehovah kindled against his people, and he abhorred his inheritance; (Psa. 106:40)
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Jer. 12:8• 8My heritage is become unto me as a lion in the forest; it hath raised its voice against me: therefore have I hated it. (Jer. 12:8)
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Jer. 14:21• 21For thy name's sake, do not spurn us, do not disgrace the throne of thy glory: remember, break not thy covenant with us. (Jer. 14:21)
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Hos. 9:15• 15All their wickedness is in Gilgal; for there I hated them: because of the wickedness of their doings, I will drive them out of my house, I will love them no more: all their princes are rebellious. (Hos. 9:15)
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Heb. 10:38• 38But the just shall live by faith; and, if he draw back, my soul does not take pleasure in him. (Heb. 10:38)
lothed them.
Heb. was straitened for them.
Isa. 49:7• 7Thus saith Jehovah, the Redeemer of Israel, his Holy One, to him whom man despiseth, to him whom the nation abhorreth, to the servant of rulers: Kings shall see and arise, princes, and they shall worship, because of Jehovah who is faithful, the Holy One of Israel, who hath chosen thee. (Isa. 49:7)
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Luke 12:50• 50But I have a baptism to be baptised with, and how am I straitened until it shall have been accomplished! (Luke 12:50)
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Luke 19:14• 14But his citizens hated him, and sent an embassy after him, saying, We will not that this man should reign over us. (Luke 19:14)
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John 7:7• 7The world cannot hate you, but me it hates, because I bear witness concerning it that its works are evil. (John 7:7)
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John 15:18,23‑25• 18If the world hate you, know that it has hated me before you.
 23He that hates me hates also my Father.
 24If I had not done among them the works which no other one has done, they had not had sin; but now they have both seen and hated both me and my Father.
 25But that the word written in their law might be fulfilled, They hated me without a cause. (John 15:18,23‑25)
• Who these shepherds were that were cut off is not revealed. (There has been endless speculation on the subject; but where God has not drawn back the curtain of concealment, it is impossible for man to penetrate into His secrets.) It is quite probable — nay, it would be consistent with God’s ways in government at that period — that these shepherds may have passed off the scene apparently in a natural way; but here it is revealed that they were cut off by the hand of Jehovah. “And,” He proceeds, “My soul loathed** them, and their soul also abhorred Me,” Who can wonder that the Messiah was weary of the unbelieving nation? (“Zechariah 11” by E. Dennett)

J. N. Darby Translation

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And I destroyed three shepherds in one month; and my soul was vexedi with them, and their soul also loathed me.

JND Translation Notes

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Or "grieved." see Judg. 10.16; Mark 3.5.