Zechariah 1:5
Strong's Lexicon
Where
אַיֵּה־ (’ay·yêh-)
Interrogative
Strong's Hebrew 346: 1) where? 1a) of persons, things 1b) rhetorical

הֵ֑ם (hêm)
Pronoun - third person masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 1992: 1) they, these, the same, who

are your forefathers now ?
אֲבֽוֹתֵיכֶ֖ם (’ă·ḇō·w·ṯê·ḵem)
Noun - masculine plural construct | second person masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 1: 1) father of an individual 2) of God as father of his people 3) head or founder of a household, group, family, or clan 4) ancestor 4a) grandfather, forefathers -- of person 4b) of people 5) originator or patron of a class, profession, or art 6) of producer, generator (fig.) 7) of benevolence and protection (fig.) 8) term of respect and honour 9) ruler or chief (spec.)

And the prophets,
וְהַ֨נְּבִאִ֔ים (wə·han·nə·ḇi·’îm)
Conjunctive waw, Article | Noun - masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 5030: 1) spokesman, speaker, prophet 1a) prophet 1b) false prophet 1c) heathen prophet

do they live
יִֽחְיֽוּ׃ (yiḥ·yū)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 2421: 1) to live, have life, remain alive, sustain life, live prosperously, live for ever, be quickened, be alive, be restored to life or health 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to live 1a1a) to have life 1a1b) to continue in life, remain alive 1a1c) to sustain life, to live on or upon 1a1d) to live (prosperously) 1a2) to revive, be quickened 1a2a) from sickness 1a2b) from discouragement 1a2c) from faintness 1a2d) from death 1b) (Piel) 1b1) to preserve alive, let live 1b2) to give life 1b3) to quicken, revive, refresh 1b3a) to restore to life 1b3b) to cause to grow 1b3c) to restore 1b3d) to revive 1c) (Hiphil) 1c1) to preserve alive, let live 1c2) to quicken, revive 1c2a) to restore (to health) 1c2b) to revive 1c2c) to restore to life

forever ?
הַלְעוֹלָ֖ם (hal·‘ō·w·lām)
Article, Preposition-l | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 5769: 1) long duration, antiquity, futurity, for ever, ever, everlasting, evermore, perpetual, old, ancient, world 1a) ancient time, long time (of past) 1b) (of future) 1b1) for ever, always 1b2) continuous existence, perpetual 1b3) everlasting, indefinite or unending future, eternity

Parallel Strong's
Berean Study Bible
Where are your fathers now? And the prophets, do they live forever?

Young's Literal Translation
Your fathers—where [are] they? And the prophets—to the age do they live?

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Where are your ancestors now? And do the prophets live forever ?

New American Standard Bible
"Your fathers, where are they? And the prophets, do they live forever?

King James Bible
Your fathers, where [are] they? and the prophets, do they live for ever?
Parallel Verses
New International Version
Where are your ancestors now? And the prophets, do they live forever?

New Living Translation
"Where are your ancestors now? They and the prophets are long dead.

English Standard Version
Your fathers, where are they? And the prophets, do they live forever?

New American Standard Bible
"Your fathers, where are they? And the prophets, do they live forever?

King James Bible
Your fathers, where are they? and the prophets, do they live for ever?

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Where are your ancestors now? And do the prophets live forever?

International Standard Version
"Your ancestors—where are they? And the prophets—do they live forever?

NET Bible
"As for your ancestors, where are they? And did the prophets live forever?

American Standard Version
Your fathers, where are they? and the prophets, do they live for ever?

English Revised Version
Your fathers, where are they? and the prophets, do they live for ever?

Young's Literal Translation
Your fathers -- where are they? And the prophets -- to the age do they live?
















Cross References
John 8:52
Then said the Jews unto him, Now we know that thou hast a devil. Abraham is dead, and the prophets; and thou sayest, If a man keep my saying, he shall never taste of death.

Jeremiah 36:28
Take thee again another roll, and write in it all the former words that were in the first roll, which Jehoiakim the king of Judah hath burned.

Lamentations 5:7
Our fathers have sinned, and are not; and we have borne their iniquities.

Zechariah 1:1
In the eighth month, 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,

Zechariah 1:4
Be ye not as your fathers, unto whom the former prophets have cried, saying, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Turn ye now from your evil ways, and from your evil doings: but they did not hear, nor hearken unto me, saith the LORD.

Zechariah 1:3
Therefore say thou unto them, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Turn ye unto me, saith the LORD of hosts, and I will turn unto you, saith the LORD of hosts.

Zechariah 1:2
The LORD hath been sore displeased with your fathers.

Zechariah 1:6
But my words and my statutes, which I commanded my servants the prophets, did they not take hold of your fathers? and they returned and said, Like as the LORD of hosts thought to do unto us, according to our ways, and according to our doings, so hath he dealt with us.

Zechariah 1:7
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,

Zechariah 1:8
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.
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