The Meaning of Zechariah 5:6 Explained

Zechariah 5:6

KJV: 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.

YLT: And I say, 'What is it?' And he saith, 'This -- the ephah that is coming forth.' And he saith, 'This is their aspect in all the land.

Darby: And I said, What is it? And he said, This is the ephah that goeth forth. And he said, This is their resemblance in all the land.

ASV: And I said, What is it? And he said, This is the ephah that goeth forth. He said moreover, This is their appearance in all the land;

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CONTEXT: What is the Context of Zechariah 5:6?

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What is the context of Zechariah 5:6?

KJV Reverse Interlinear

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.

What does Zechariah 5:6 Mean?

Study Notes

earth
Lit. land, i.e. Palestine.

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 confining the woman, and the stork-winged women whose only function is to bear the ephah and woman away into Babylonia (Shinar). The thing thus symbolized was "through all the land" ( Zechariah 5:6 ).

Symbolically, a "measure" (or "cup") stands for something which has come to the full, so that God must judge it 2 Samuel 8:2 ; Jeremiah 51:13 ; Habakkuk 3:6 ; Habakkuk 3:7 ; Matthew 7:2 ; Matthew 23:32 . A woman, in the bad ethical sense, is always a symbol of that which, religiously, is out of its place. The "woman" in Matthew 13:33 is dealing with doctrine, a sphere forbidden to her 1 Timothy 2:12 . In Thyatira a woman is suffered to teach Revelation 2:20 . The Babylon phase of the apostate church is symbolized by an unchaste woman, sodden with the greed and luxury of commercialism.; Revelation 17:1-6 ; Revelation 18:3 ; Revelation 18:11-20 .

The local application of Zechariah's ninth vision is, therefore, evident. The Jews then in the land had been in captivity in Babylon. Outwardly they had put away idolatry, but they had learned in Babylon that insatiate greed of gain Nehemiah 5:1-9 ; Malachi 3:8 that intense commercial spirit which had been foreign to Israel as a pastoral people, but which was thenceforward to characterize them through the ages. These things were out of place in God's people and land. Symbolically He judged them as belonging to Babylon and sent them there to build a temple--they could have no part in His. The "woman" was to be "set there upon her own base" ( Zechariah 5:11 ). It was Jehovah's moral judgment upon Babylonism in His own land and people.

Prophetically, the application to the Babylon of the Revelation is obvious. The professing Gentile church at that time condoning every iniquity of the rich, doctrinally a mere "confusion," as the name indicates, and corrupted to the core by commercialism, wealth, and luxury, falls under the judgment of God (Revelation 18.).

earth

Lit. land, i.e. Palestine.

Context Summary

Zechariah 5:1-11 - The Vision Of The Flying Roll

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-swearing. The young community was notorious for these two sins. They brought the dry-rot with them, Zechariah 5:4. Their commercial life also, represented by the ephah, was full of wickedness. But it was to be eliminated. The swift stork wings would bear it away. [source]

Chapter Summary: Zechariah 5

¹ By the flying scroll is shown the curse of thieves and swearers;
⁵ and by a woman pressed in an ephah the final judgment of wickedness

What do the individual words in Zechariah 5:6 mean?

So I asked what [is] it and he said this [is] a basket that is going forth And He said their resemblance throughout the earth

וָאֹמַ֖ר מַה־ ؟ הִ֑יא וַיֹּ֗אמֶר זֹ֤את הָֽאֵיפָה֙ הַיּוֹצֵ֔את וַיֹּ֕אמֶר עֵינָ֖ם בְּכָל־ הָאָֽרֶץ

וָאֹמַ֖ר	So I asked
Parse: Conjunctive waw, Verb, Qal, Consecutive imperfect, first person common singular Root: אָמַר Sense: to say, speak, utter.
מַה־	what [is]
Parse: Interrogative Root: לָמָּה Sense: what, how, of what kind.
וַיֹּ֗אמֶר	and he said
Parse: Conjunctive waw, Verb, Qal, Consecutive imperfect, third person masculine singular Root: אָמַר Sense: to say, speak, utter.
זֹ֤את	this [is]
Parse: Pronoun, feminine singular Root: זׄאת Sense: this, this one, here, which, this … that, the one … the other, such.
הָֽאֵיפָה֙	a basket
Parse: Article, Noun, feminine singular Root: אֵיפָה Sense: ephah.
הַיּוֹצֵ֔את	that is going forth
Parse: Article, Verb, Qal, Participle, feminine singular Root: יׄוצֵאת Sense: to go out, come out, exit, go forth.
וַיֹּ֕אמֶר	And He said
Parse: Conjunctive waw, Verb, Qal, Consecutive imperfect, third person masculine singular Root: אָמַר Sense: to say, speak, utter.
עֵינָ֖ם	their resemblance
Parse: Noun, common singular construct, third person masculine plural Root: עֹונָה Sense: eye.
בְּכָל־	throughout
Parse: Preposition-b, Noun, masculine singular construct Root: כֹּל Sense: all, the whole.
הָאָֽרֶץ	the earth
Parse: Article, Noun, feminine singular Root: אֶרֶץ Sense: land, earth.

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