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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 man dieth, and is prostrate,{HR}And man expireth, and where is he?
 11Waters roll away from a sea,{HR}And the stream becometh waste and dry,
 12So man lieth down, and riseth not:{HR}Till the heavens [be] no more, they wake not,{HR}Nor are roused out of their sleep. (Job 14:10‑12)
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Psa. 90:10• 10The days of our years! in them [are] seventy years,{HR}And if by strength eighty years,{HR}Even their pride [is] trouble and mischief;{HR}For it is soon gone, and we fly away. (Psa. 90:10)
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Eccl. 1:4• 4Generation cometh and generation goeth,{HR}And the earth forever abideth. (Eccl. 1:4)
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Eccl. 9:1‑3• 1For all this I laid to my heart,{HR}Even to explore all this,{HR}That the righteous, and the wise,{HR}And their works, are in the hand of God:{HR}Whether it be love or hatred,{HR}Man knoweth it not; all is before them.
 2All things [come] alike to all:{HR}There is one event to the righteous and to the wicked;{HR}To the good, and to the clean and to the unclean;{HR}To him that sacrificeth and to him that sacrificeth not:{HR}As is the good, so is the sinner;{HR}He that sweareth, as he that feareth an oath.
 3This is an evil in all that is done under the sun,{HR}That there is one event unto all:{HR}Yea also the heart of the sons of men is full of evil,{HR}And madness is in [their] heart while they live;{HR}And, after that, they go to the dead. (Eccl. 9:1‑3)
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Eccl. 12:5,7• 5Yea, they shall be afraid of [that which is] high,{HR}And terrors [shall be] in the way;{HR}And the almond tree shall blossom,{HR}And the grasshopper shall be a burden,{HR}And desire shall fail;{HR}Because man goeth to his long home,{HR}And the mourners go about the streets:
 7And the dust return to the earth as it was,{HR}And the spirit return unto God who gave it. (Eccl. 12:5,7)
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Acts 13:36• 36For David, having in his own generation served the counsel 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 indeed are become many more priests, because by death they are hindered from continuing;
 24but he because of his abiding forever hath the priesthood untransferable. (Heb. 7:23‑24)
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Heb. 9:27• 27And forasmuch as it is appointed to men once to die, and, after this, judgment; (Heb. 9:27)
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2 Peter 3:2‑4• 2that ye 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 in the last of the days mockers shall come with mockery walking according to their own lusts,
 4and saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for from the [day] that the fathers fell asleep, all things continue thus from beginning of 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?

W. Kelly Translation

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