King James Version
Zechariah 1:9 in the King James Version says “Then said I, O my lord, what are these? And the angel that talked with me said unto me, I will shew thee what these be.” — study this verse from Zechariah chapter 1 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“Then said I, O my lord, what are these? And the angel that talked with me said unto me, I will shew thee what these be.”
Zechariah 1:9 · KJV
Upon the four and twentieth day of the eleventh month, which is the month Sebat, in the second year of Darius, came the word of the LORD unto Zechariah, the son of Berechiah, the son of Iddo the prophet, saying,
I saw by night, and behold a man riding upon a red horse, and he stood among the myrtle trees that were in the bottom; and behind him were there red horses, speckled, and white. speckled: or, bay
Then said I, O my lord, what are these? And the angel that talked with me said unto me, I will shew thee what these be.
And the man that stood among the myrtle trees answered and said, These are they whom the LORD hath sent to walk to and fro through the earth.
And they answered the angel of the LORD that stood among the myrtle trees, and said, We have walked to and fro through the earth, and, behold, all the earth sitteth still, and is at rest.
KJV Study — Public Domain
properly, interrogative what? (including how? why? when?); but also exclamation, what! (including how!), or indefinitely what (including whatever, and
“what are these And the angel”
H4397a messenger; specifically, of god, i.e., an angel (also a prophet, priest or teacher)
“that talked”
H1696perhaps properly, to arrange; but used figuratively (of words), to speak; rarely (in a destructive sense) to subdue
“unto me I will shew”
H7200to see, literally or figuratively (in numerous applications, direct and implied, transitive, intransitive and causative)
properly, interrogative what? (including how? why? when?); but also exclamation, what! (including how!), or indefinitely what (including whatever, and
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