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Zechariah 14

Zech. 14:10 KJV (With Strong’s)

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All the land
'erets (Hebrew #776)
the earth (at large, or partitively a land)
KJV usage: X common, country, earth, field, ground, land, X natins, way, + wilderness, world.
Pronounce: eh'-rets
Origin: from an unused root probably meaning to be firm
shall be σturned
cabab (Hebrew #5437)
to revolve, surround, or border; used in various applications, literally and figuratively (as follows)
KJV usage: bring, cast, fetch, lead, make, walk, X whirl, X round about, be about on every side, apply, avoid, beset (about), besiege, bring again, carry (about), change, cause to come about, X circuit, (fetch a) compass (about, round), drive, environ, X on every side, beset (close, come, compass, go, stand) round about, inclose, remove, return, set, sit down, turn (self) (about, aside, away, back).
Pronounce: saw-bab'
Origin: a primitive root
as a plain
`arabah (Hebrew #6160)
a desert; especially (with the article prefix) the (generally) sterile valley of the Jordan and its continuation to the Red Sea
KJV usage: Arabah, champaign, desert, evening, heaven, plain, wilderness. See also 1026.
Pronounce: ar-aw-baw'
Origin: from 6150 (in the sense of sterility)
from Geba
Geba` (Hebrew #1387)
Geba, a place in Palestine
KJV usage: Gaba, Geba, Gibeah.
Pronounce: gheh'-bah
Origin: from the same as 1375, a hillock
to Rimmon
Rimmown (Hebrew #7417)
or Rimmownow (1 Chronicles 6:62 (77)) {rim-mo-no'}; the same as 7416; Rimmon, the name of a Syrian deity, also of five places in Palestine
KJV usage: Remmon, Rimmon. The addition "-methoar" (Josh. 19:13) is ham-mthonar {ham-meth-o-awr'}; passive participle of 8388 with the article; the (one) marked off, i.e. which pertains; mistaken for part of the name.
Pronounce: rim-mone'
Origin: or (shorter) Rimmon {rim-mone'}
south
negeb (Hebrew #5045)
the south (from its drought); specifically, the Negeb or southern district of Judah, occasionally, Egypt (as south to Palestine)
KJV usage: south (country, side, -ward).
Pronounce: neh'-gheb
Origin: from an unused root meaning to be parched
of Jerusalem
Yruwshalaim (Hebrew #3389)
a dual (in allusion to its two main hills (the true pointing, at least of the former reading, seems to be that of 3390)); probably from (the passive participle of) 3384 and 7999; founded peaceful; Jerushalaim or Jerushalem, the capital city of Palestine
KJV usage: Jerusalem.
Pronounce: yer-oo-shaw-lah'-im
Origin: rarely Yruwshalayim {yer-oo- shaw-lah'-yim}
: and it shall be lifted up
ra'am (Hebrew #7213)
to rise
KJV usage: be lifted up.
Pronounce: raw-am'
Origin: a primitive root
, and τinhabited
yashab (Hebrew #3427)
properly, to sit down (specifically as judge. in ambush, in quiet); by implication, to dwell, to remain; causatively, to settle, to marry
KJV usage: (make to) abide(-ing), continue, (cause to, make to) dwell(-ing), ease self, endure, establish, X fail, habitation, haunt, (make to) inhabit(-ant), make to keep (house), lurking, X marry(-ing), (bring again to) place, remain, return, seat, set(- tle), (down-)sit(-down, still, -ting down, -ting (place) -uate), take, tarry.
Pronounce: yaw-shab'
Origin: a primitive root
in her place, from Benjamin’s
Binyamiyn (Hebrew #1144)
son of (the) right hand; Binjamin, youngest son of Jacob; also the tribe descended from him, and its territory
KJV usage: Benjamin.
Pronounce: bin-yaw-mene'
Origin: from 1121 and 3225
gate
sha`ar (Hebrew #8179)
an opening, i.e. door or gate
KJV usage: city, door, gate, port (X -er).
Pronounce: shah'-ar
Origin: from 8176 in its original sense
unto the place
maqowm (Hebrew #4725)
also (feminine) mqowmah {mek-o-mah'}; or mqomah {mek-o-mah'}; from 6965; properly, a standing, i.e. a spot; but used widely of a locality (general or specific); also (figuratively) of a condition (of body or mind)
KJV usage: country, X home, X open, place, room, space, X whither(-soever).
Pronounce: maw-kome'
Origin: or maqom {maw-kome'}
of the first
ri'shown (Hebrew #7223)
from 7221; first, in place, time or rank (as adjective or noun)
KJV usage: ancestor, (that were) before(-time), beginning, eldest, first, fore(-father) (-most), former (thing), of old time, past.
Pronounce: ree-shone'
Origin: or riishon {ree-shone'}
gate
sha`ar (Hebrew #8179)
an opening, i.e. door or gate
KJV usage: city, door, gate, port (X -er).
Pronounce: shah'-ar
Origin: from 8176 in its original sense
, unto the corner
pen (Hebrew #6434)
an angle (of a street or wall)
KJV usage: corner.
Pronounce: pane
Origin: from an unused root meaning to turn
gate
sha`ar (Hebrew #8179)
an opening, i.e. door or gate
KJV usage: city, door, gate, port (X -er).
Pronounce: shah'-ar
Origin: from 8176 in its original sense
, and from the tower
migdal (Hebrew #4026)
from 1431; a tower (from its size or height); by analogy, a rostrum; figuratively, a (pyramidal) bed of flowers
KJV usage: castle, flower, tower. Compare the names following.
Pronounce: mig-dawl'
Origin: also (in plural) feminine migdalah {mig-daw- law'}
of Hananeel
Chanan'el (Hebrew #2606)
God has favored; Chananel, probably an Israelite, from whom a tower of Jerusalem was named
KJV usage: Hananeel.
Pronounce: khan-an-ale'
Origin: from 2603 and 410
unto the king’s
melek (Hebrew #4428)
a king
KJV usage: king, royal.
Pronounce: meh'-lek
Origin: from 4427
winepresses
yeqeb (Hebrew #3342)
a trough (as dug out); specifically, a wine-vat (whether the lower one, into which the juice drains; or the upper, in which the grapes are crushed)
KJV usage: fats, presses, press-fat, wine(-press).
Pronounce: yeh'-keb
Origin: from an unused root meaning to excavate
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σ
or, compassed.
τ
or, shall abide.

More on:

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Benjamin,
Gate of Benjamin,
Geba,
Jerusalem,
King,
Plain,
Rimmon,
South,
Tower of Hananeel,
Wine-Press; Wine-Fat

Cross References

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Ministry on This Verse

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the land.
Zech. 4:6‑7• 6Then he answered and spake unto me, saying, This is the word of the Lord unto Zerubbabel, saying, Not by might, nor by power, but by my spirit, saith the Lord of hosts.
 7Who art thou, O great mountain? before Zerubbabel thou shalt become a plain: and he shall bring forth the headstone thereof with shoutings, crying, Grace, grace unto it. (Zech. 4:6‑7)
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Isa. 40:3‑4• 3The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make straight in the desert a highway for our God.
 4Every valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill shall be made low: and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough places plain: (Isa. 40:3‑4)
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Luke 3:4‑6• 4As it is written in the book of the words of Esaias the prophet, saying, The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make his paths straight.
 5Every valley shall be filled, and every mountain and hill shall be brought low; and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough ways shall be made smooth;
 6And all flesh shall see the salvation of God. (Luke 3:4‑6)
turned.
or, compassed.
from Geba.
Josh. 21:17• 17And out of the tribe of Benjamin, Gibeon with her suburbs, Geba with her suburbs, (Josh. 21:17)
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1 Kings 15:22• 22Then king Asa made a proclamation throughout all Judah; none was exempted: and they took away the stones of Ramah, and the timber thereof, wherewith Baasha had builded; and king Asa built with them Geba of Benjamin, and Mizpah. (1 Kings 15:22)
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Isa. 10:29• 29They are gone over the passage: they have taken up their lodging at Geba; Ramah is afraid; Gibeah of Saul is fled. (Isa. 10:29)
Rimmon.
Josh. 15:32• 32And Lebaoth, and Shilhim, and Ain, and Rimmon: all the cities are twenty and nine, with their villages: (Josh. 15:32)
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Judg. 20:45,47• 45And they turned and fled toward the wilderness unto the rock of Rimmon: and they gleaned of them in the highways five thousand men; and pursued hard after them unto Gidom, and slew two thousand men of them.
 47But six hundred men turned and fled to the wilderness unto the rock Rimmon, and abode in the rock Rimmon four months. (Judg. 20:45,47)
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Judg. 21:13• 13And the whole congregation sent some to speak to the children of Benjamin that were in the rock Rimmon, and to call peaceably unto them. (Judg. 21:13)
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1 Chron. 4:32• 32And their villages were, Etam, and Ain, Rimmon, and Tochen, and Ashan, five cities: (1 Chron. 4:32)
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1 Chron. 6:77• 77Unto the rest of the children of Merari were given out of the tribe of Zebulun, Rimmon with her suburbs, Tabor with her suburbs: (1 Chron. 6:77)
inhabited.
or, shall abide.
Zech. 2:4• 4And said unto him, Run, speak to this young man, saying, Jerusalem shall be inhabited as towns without walls for the multitude of men and cattle therein: (Zech. 2:4)
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Zech. 12:6• 6In that day will I make the governors of Judah like an hearth of fire among the wood, and like a torch of fire in a sheaf; and they shall devour all the people round about, on the right hand and on the left: and Jerusalem shall be inhabited again in her own place, even in Jerusalem. (Zech. 12:6)
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Jer. 30:18• 18Thus saith the Lord; Behold, I will bring again the captivity of Jacob's tents, and have mercy on his dwellingplaces; and the city shall be builded upon her own heap, and the palace shall remain after the manner thereof. (Jer. 30:18)
from Benjamin's.
2 Chron. 25:23• 23And Joash the king of Israel took Amaziah king of Judah, the son of Joash, the son of Jehoahaz, at Beth-shemesh, and brought him to Jerusalem, and brake down the wall of Jerusalem from the gate of Ephraim to the corner gate, four hundred cubits. (2 Chron. 25:23)
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Neh. 3:1• 1Then Eliashib the high priest rose up with his brethren the priests, and they builded the sheep gate; they sanctified it, and set up the doors of it; even unto the tower of Meah they sanctified it, unto the tower of Hananeel. (Neh. 3:1)
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Neh. 12:39• 39And from above the gate of Ephraim, and above the old gate, and above the fish gate, and the tower of Hananeel, and the tower of Meah, even unto the sheep gate: and they stood still in the prison gate. (Neh. 12:39)
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Jer. 31:38‑40• 38Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that the city shall be built to the Lord from the tower of Hananeel unto the gate of the corner.
 39And the measuring line shall yet go forth over against it upon the hill Gareb, and shall compass about to Goath.
 40And the whole valley of the dead bodies, and of the ashes, and all the fields unto the brook of Kidron, unto the corner of the horse gate toward the east, shall be holy unto the Lord; it shall not be plucked up, nor thrown down any more for ever. (Jer. 31:38‑40)
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Jer. 37:13• 13And when he was in the gate of Benjamin, a captain of the ward was there, whose name was Irijah, the son of Shelemiah, the son of Hananiah; and he took Jeremiah the prophet, saying, Thou fallest away to the Chaldeans. (Jer. 37:13)
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Jer. 38:7• 7Now when Ebed-melech the Ethiopian, one of the eunuchs which was in the king's house, heard that they had put Jeremiah in the dungeon; the king then sitting in the gate of Benjamin; (Jer. 38:7)
• {v.10-11} Jerusalem, moreover, as the metropolis, will be exalted above all cities, be blessed with overflowing prosperity, and be guarded by divine power; for that we conceive to be the meaning of verses 10-11. Geba and Rimmon mark the northern and southern boundaries of the kingdom of Judah ....The abounding prosperity of the city in these days is indicated by the mention of the limits of the city. (“Zechariah 14” by E. Dennett)
• Jerusalem, moreover, as the metropolis, will be exalted above all cities, be blessed with overflowing prosperity, and be guarded by divine power; for that we conceive to be the meaning of verses 10-11. Geba and Rimmon mark the northern and southern boundaries of the kingdom of Judah. (“Zechariah 14” by E. Dennett)

J. N. Darby Translation

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All the land from Geba to Rimmon south of Jerusalem shall be turned as the Arabahe; and Jerusalem shall be lifted up, and shall dwellf in her own place, from Benjamin’s gate unto the place of the first gate, unto the corner-gate, and from the tower of Hananeel unto the king’s winepresses.

JND Translation Notes

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e
Or "plain." see Josh. 3.16.
f
"be inhabited," as ch. 12.6.