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Zechariah 1

Zech. 1:5 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Your fathers
'ab (Hebrew #1)
father, in a literal and immediate, or figurative and remote application)
KJV usage: chief, (fore-)father(-less), X patrimony, principal. Compare names in "Abi-".
Pronounce: awb
Origin: a primitive word
, where are they? and the prophets
nabiy' (Hebrew #5030)
a prophet or (generally) inspired man
KJV usage: prophecy, that prophesy, prophet.
Pronounce: naw-bee'
Origin: from 5012
, do they live
chayah (Hebrew #2421)
to live, whether literally or figuratively; causatively, to revive
KJV usage: keep (leave, make) alive, X certainly, give (promise) life, (let, suffer to) live, nourish up, preserve (alive), quicken, recover, repair, restore (to life), revive, (X God) save (alive, life, lives), X surely, be whole.
Pronounce: khaw-yaw'
Origin: a primitive root (compare 2331, 2421)
for ever
`owlam (Hebrew #5769)
from 5956; properly, concealed, i.e. the vanishing point; generally, time out of mind (past or future), i.e. (practically) eternity; frequentatively, adverbial (especially with prepositional prefix) always
KJV usage: alway(-s), ancient (time), any more, continuance, eternal, (for, (n-))ever(-lasting, -more, of old), lasting, long (time), (of) old (time), perpetual, at any time, (beginning of the) world (+ without end). Compare 5331, 5703.
Pronounce: o-lawm'
Origin: or lolam {o-lawm'}
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Cross References

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Ministry on This Verse

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Job 14:10‑12• 10But a man dieth, and is prostrate; yea, man expireth, and where is he?
 11The waters recede from the lake, and the river wasteth and drieth up:
 12So man lieth down, and riseth not again; till the heavens be no more, they do not awake, nor are raised out of their sleep. (Job 14:10‑12)
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Psa. 90:10• 10The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if, by reason of strength, they be fourscore years, yet their pride is labour and vanity, for it is soon cut off, and we fly away. (Psa. 90:10)
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Eccl. 1:4• 4One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh, but the earth standeth for ever. (Eccl. 1:4)
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Eccl. 9:1‑3• 1For all this I laid to my heart and indeed to investigate all this, that the righteous, and the wise, and their works, are in the hand of God; man knoweth neither love nor hatred: all is before them.
 2All things come alike to all: one event to the righteous and to the wicked, to the good, and to the clean, and to the unclean, to him that sacrificeth and to him that sacrificeth not: as is the good, so is the sinner; he that sweareth, as he that feareth an oath.
 3This is an evil among all that is done under the sun, that one thing befalleth all: yea, also the heart of the children of men is full of evil, and madness is in their heart while they live; and after that, they have to go to the dead. (Eccl. 9:1‑3)
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Eccl. 12:5,7• 5they are also afraid of what is high, and terrors are in the way, and the almond is despised, and the grasshopper is a burden, and the caper-berry is without effect; (for man goeth to his age-long home, and the mourners go about the streets;)
 7and the dust return to the earth as it was, and the spirit return unto God who gave it. (Eccl. 12:5,7)
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Acts 13:36• 36For David indeed, having in his own generation ministered to the will of God, fell asleep, and was added to his fathers and saw corruption. (Acts 13:36)
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Heb. 7:23‑24• 23And they have been many priests, on account of being hindered from continuing by death;
 24but he, because of his continuing for ever, has the priesthood unchangeable. (Heb. 7:23‑24)
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Heb. 9:27• 27And forasmuch as it is the portion of men once to die, and after this judgment; (Heb. 9:27)
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2 Peter 3:2‑4• 2to be mindful of the words spoken before by the holy prophets, and of the commandment of the Lord and Saviour by your apostles;
 3knowing this first, that there shall come at the close of the days mockers with mocking, walking according to their own lusts,
 4and saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for from the time the fathers fell asleep all things remain thus from the beginning of the creation. (2 Peter 3:2‑4)
• Zechariah recalls the fact to the people’s mind that, while their fathers and the prophets who had spoken to them the word of the Lord had passed off the scene, the word of God had not failed. (“Zechariah 1” by E. Dennett)

J. N. Darby Translation

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Your fathers, where are they? and the prophets, do they live for ever?