Polyglot Bible: Zechariah: Zechariah 5

This is a scholarly parallel-text presentation of Zechariah 5:1–11, displaying the same biblical passage simultaneously in four versions: the King James Version (with inline Strong's Hebrew concordance numbers), the Greek Septuagint (LXX), the Hebrew Masoretic Text (Tanakh), and the Latin Vulgate. The passage recounts two of the prophet Zechariah's visions: first, a flying scroll 20 cubits long and 10 wide, which God sends as a curse to destroy the houses of thieves and false swearers; second, a measuring ephah containing a woman labeled "Wickedness," sealed with a lead weight and carried by two stork-winged women to be enshrined in a house built for her in the land of Shinar (Babylon). The text's distinctive feature is its comparative layout, designed for source-critical or translation study — the KJV column's numeric tags link every word to its underlying Hebrew lemma, enabling readers to cross-check translation choices against the original. Notably, the Greek and Latin versions render key terms differently (the Septuagint reads "sickle" where Hebrew has "scroll," and "hoopoe" rather than "stork"), variations that are directly visible by reading across columns. This resource is aimed at biblical scholars, translators, or serious students who want to examine textual divergences across the major ancient witnesses to a single prophetic text.

Polyglot Bible: Zechariah: Zechariah 5

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