He — The angel. An ephah — A measure which held about three bushels. Goeth forth — Out of the temple. Their resemblance — This is an emblem of this people everywhere. Thus there is limited time and measure for them, while they sin, and are filling the ephah with their sins, they will find that the ephah of wrath is filled up also, to be poured out upon them.
Verse Zechariah 5:6. _THIS_ IS _AN EPHAH THAT GOETH FORTH._] This, among the Jews, was the ordinary measure of grain. The _woman_ in the _ephah_ is supposed to represent _Judea_, which shall be visit...
THIS IS THE EPHAH THAT GOETH FORTH - Theodoret: “We too are taught by this, that the Lord of all administers all things in weight and measure. So, foretelling to Abraham that his seed should be a sojo...
CHAPTER 5 _ 1. The sixth vision (Zechariah 5:1) _ 2. The seventh vision (Zechariah 5:5) Zechariah 5:1. The three remaining night visions are of a different character. The first visions the prophet h...
THE TRANSFERENCE TO BABYLONIA OF JUDAH'S GUILT (_i.e._ the cause of calamity). For their resemblance (Zechariah 5:6) read with LXX their iniquity (_mg.)_ or rather their guilt. By the transference of...
THIS. Hebrew. _zoth_. Feminine. Singular. EPHAH. See App-51., RESEMBLANCE. aspect. Heb _eye._ Put by Figure of speech Metonymy (of Adjunct), App-6, for their Look: i.e. appearance, or colour, as in L...
_an ephah_ Lit. THE EPHAH. Though it seems impossible to fix accurately the size of the Hebrew ephah (_Dict. of Bible_, Weights and Measures), there can be no doubt that it was not large enough to con...
THIS IS AN EPHAH THAT GOETH FORTH— _The ephah that is going forth._ An ephah was a dry measure containing somewhat less than our bushel, consequently too small for a woman to sit in; we must therefore...
CHAPTER XXXIII A VISION OF A WOMAN IN A FLYING BASKET Zechariah 5:5-11 RV. Then the angel that talked with me went forth, and said unto me, Lift up now thine eyes, and see what is this that goeth fo...
Then the angel that talked with me went forth, and said unto me, Lift up now thine eyes, and see what is this that goeth forth. Wickedness and idolatry removed from the Holy Land to Babylon, there...
5:6 land. (e-27) Or 'earth,' as 1 Samuel 2:8 . resemblance (f-23) Or 'look;' 'iniquity,' LXX....
THE SIXTH AND SEVENTH VISIONS 1-4. A flying roll inscribed with curses comes down upon the earth. The previous visions had promised many blessings to the people; and the sixth and seventh teach that...
EPHAH] the greatest measure among the Jews, a round vessel holding about 7 gals. This vision describes the fulfilment of the promise given in Zechariah 3:9. RESEMBLANCE] A very slight change of one He...
A SERIES OF SEVEN VISIONS. Zechariah 1:7 to Zechariah 6:15. Between the commencement of Zechariah’s prophetic labours and the incidents recorded in Zechariah 1:7 to...
WHAT IS IT_?_ — i.e., What does it symbolise? For, of course, he could see that it was an ephah. THIS IS AN EPHAH... ALL THE EARTH. — Better, _This, the ephah that cometh forth, this, continued he, is...
וָ אֹמַ֖ר מַה ־הִ֑יא וַ יֹּ֗אמֶר זֹ֤את
THE VISIONS OF ZECHARIAH Zechariah 1:7; Zechariah 2:1; Zechariah 3:1; Zechariah 4:1;...
THE VISION OF THE FLYING ROLL Zechariah 5:1-11 This huge sheet of parchment, 30 by 15 feet, was covered with the solemn curses of the Law, on one side against the thief and on the other against false...
The vision of the flying roll represents the principle of law as it will be administered by Israel when she fulfils the true ideal. It must be considered as a sequence following the realization of tho...
And I said, What [is] it? And he said, This [is] an (e) ephah that goeth forth. He said moreover, This [is] their (f) resemblance through all the earth. (e) Which was a measure in dry things, contain...
_Vessel. Hebrew epha. (Calmet) --- Eye. This is what they fix their eye upon, or this is a resemblance and figure of them, viz., of sinners. (Calmet) --- Protestants, "resemblance." (Haydock) --- This...
"Then the angel that talked with me went forth, and said unto me, Lift up now thine eyes, and see what is this that goeth forth. (6) And I said, What is it? And he said, This is an ephah that goeth fo...
Lectures on the Minor Prophets. W. Kelly. Zechariah was plainly a contemporary of Haggai. Like him he dates his prophecies from the second imperial power of the Gentiles; but he goes a great deal far...
Then the angel answered, _This is the measure that goes forth, and this is their eye in all the earth_. By saying that the measure is their eye, he no doubt means that the ungodly could not thus be ca...
Chapter 5 shews us the other side of the picture, that is to say, the judgment of the wicked in Israel in the last days. The prophet sees an immense roll filled with a curse for the wicked, for those...
AND I SAID, WHAT [IS] IT?.... After he had lifted up his eyes and seen it, he desires to know both what it was, and what was the meaning of it: AND HE SAID, THIS [IS] AN EPHAH THAT GOETH FORTH; which...
And I said, What [is] it? And he said, This [is] an ephah that goeth forth. He said moreover, This [is] their resemblance through all the earth. Ver. 6. _And I said, What is it?_] _i.e._ What meaneth...
_The angel that talked with me went forth_ Or rather, _went on_, as the verb יצא often signifies; (see 2 Chronicles 21:19; Jeremiah 25:32;) and so it may signify at the end of this verse, and in the n...
THE VISION OF THE WOMAN IN THE EPHAH...
And I said, What is it? for Zechariah evidently did not recognize the object at once. AND HE SAID, THIS IS AN EPHAH THAT GOETH FORTH, the ephah being a dry measure corresponding roughly to our peck. T...
THE SIXTH VISION - A FLYING SCROLL (vv. 1-4) The five previous visions have beautifully emphasized the grace of God in His restoring great blessing to Israel after years of sorrow and desolation. Th...
5-11 In this vision the prophet sees an ephah, something in the shape of a corn measure. This betokened the Jewish nation. They are filling the measure of their iniquity; and when it is full, they sh...
AND I SAID, WHAT IS IT? Zechariah knew not what this was tie saw, so far was. he from knowing what it meant. AND HE, the angel, said, THIS IS AN EPHAH; the greatest, say some, of measures with the Heb...
Zechariah 5:6 asked H559 (H8799) said H559 (H8799) basket H374 forth H3318 (H8802) said H559 ...
THE SEVENTH VISION. THE WOMAN IN THE MEASURING VESSEL - IDOLATRY TO BE REMOVED FROM THE LAND (ZECHARIAH 5:5). Not only must dishonesty and false witness be removed from the land, so also must all con...
WHAT IS IT In the vision of the ephah local and prophetic elements are to be distinguished. The elements are: an ephah or measure; a woman in the ephah; a sealing weight upon the mouth of the ephah c...
CONTENTS: Vision of the flying roll and the ephah. CHARACTERS: God, Zechariah, angel. CONCLUSION: God's holy law reveals the righteous wrath of God against those who by swearing, affront God's majes...
Zechariah 5:2. _What seest thou? I see a flying roll._ Hebrews _meghilla,_ a parchment, a terrific scroll, twenty cubits in length, and ten in breadth, an oblong in measure like the courts of the temp...
_And this is a woman that sitteth in the midst of the ephah _ THE WOMAN IN THE EPHAH This vision, like the preceding, is of a warning character, and somewhat more obscure in its symbolical apparatus...
ZECHARIAH—NOTE ON ZECHARIAH 5:5 The seventh vision is closely linked to the sixth. It adds exile to the threat of destruction. ⇐...
ZECHARIAH—NOTE ON ZECHARIAH 5:6 The prophet saw a BASKET holding about three-fifths of a bushel. Inside this small container was THEIR INIQUITY IN ALL THE LAND, personified as a woman
CRITICAL NOTES.] Zechariah 5:5.] Seventh vision. Wickedness driven from Judah to mingle with its kindred elements in Babylon. ZECHARIAH 5:6. EPHAH] A familiar dry measure, denoting unjust dealings i...
EXPOSITION ZECHARIAH 5:1 § 8. _The sixth vision: the flying roll._ ZECHARIAH 5:1 THEN I TURNED, AND LIFTED UP MINE EYES; _i.e. _I lifted up mine eyes again, and saw the vision that follows. The pro...
So then I turned, and I lifted up my eyes, and I beheld a flying roll (Zechariah 5:1). Now this must have been a weird looking sight, a flying saucer kind of a thing. And he said unto me, What do you...
Amos 8:5; Ezekiel 44:10; Ezekiel 44:11...