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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 the Lord: for they have begotten strange children: now shall a month devour them with their portions. (Hos. 5:7)
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was straitened for.

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Ministry on This Verse

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Hos. 5:7• 7They have dealt treacherously against the Lord: for they have begotten strange children: now shall a month devour them with their portions. (Hos. 5:7)
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Matt. 23:34‑36• 34Wherefore, behold, I send unto you prophets, and wise men, and scribes: and some of them ye shall kill and crucify; and some of them shall ye scourge in your synagogues, and persecute them from city to city:
 35That upon you may come all the righteous blood shed upon the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel unto 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 servant shall come in a day when he looketh not for him, and in an hour that he is not aware of,
 51And shall cut him asunder, and appoint him his portion with the hypocrites: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth. (Matt. 24:50‑51)
and my.
Lev. 26:11,30,44• 11And I will set my tabernacle among you: and my soul shall not abhor you.
 30And I will destroy your high places, and cut down your images, and cast your carcases upon the carcases of your idols, and my soul shall abhor you.
 44And yet for all that, when they be in the land of their enemies, I will not cast them away, neither will I abhor them, to destroy them utterly, and to break my covenant with them: for I am the Lord their God. (Lev. 26:11,30,44)
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Deut. 32:19• 19And when the Lord saw it, he abhorred them, because of the provoking of his sons, and of his daughters. (Deut. 32:19)
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Psa. 5:5• 5The foolish shall not stand in thy sight: thou hatest all workers of iniquity. (Psa. 5:5)
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Psa. 78:9• 9The children of Ephraim, being armed, and carrying bows, turned back in the day of battle. (Psa. 78:9)
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Psa. 106:40• 40Therefore was the wrath of the Lord kindled against his people, insomuch that he abhorred his own inheritance. (Psa. 106:40)
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Jer. 12:8• 8Mine heritage is unto me as a lion in the forest; it crieth out against me: therefore have I hated it. (Jer. 12:8)
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Jer. 14:21• 21Do not abhor us, for thy name's sake, 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: for the wickedness of their doings I will drive them out of mine house, I will love them no more: all their princes are revolters. (Hos. 9:15)
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Heb. 10:38• 38Now the just shall live by faith: but if any man draw back, my soul shall have no pleasure in him. (Heb. 10:38)
lothed them.
Heb. was straitened for them.
Isa. 49:7• 7Thus saith the Lord, the Redeemer of Israel, and his Holy One, to him whom man despiseth, to him whom the nation abhorreth, to a servant of rulers, Kings shall see and arise, princes also shall worship, because of the Lord that is faithful, and the Holy One of Israel, and he shall choose thee. (Isa. 49:7)
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Luke 12:50• 50But I have a baptism to be baptized with; and how am I straitened till it be accomplished! (Luke 12:50)
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Luke 19:14• 14But his citizens hated him, and sent a message after him, saying, We will not have this man to reign over us. (Luke 19:14)
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John 7:7• 7The world cannot hate you; but me it hateth, because I testify of it, that the works thereof are evil. (John 7:7)
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John 15:18,23‑25• 18If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you.
 23He that hateth me hateth my Father also.
 24If I had not done among them the works which none other man did, they had not had sin: but now have they both seen and hated both me and my Father.
 25But this cometh to pass, that the word might be fulfilled that is written in their law, 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.