Verse Lens · Concise explanation
Zechariah 12:14 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 14. 14All the families that remain, every family apart, and their wives apart.
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Quick Meaning
This verse extends separate mourning to every remaining family and its women.
Read It With
- Zechariah 12:10-14
Read Zechariah 12:14 with 12:10-14. This verse extends separate mourning to every remaining family and its women. The complete unit establishes this movement: Divine grace produces supplication and deep, differentiated mourning over a pierced figure, moving the delivered community from triumph to repentance; the Hebrew speaker and object shifts and the figure's identity must remain visible alongside Christian reception in John.
Why This Verse Appears Here
The oracle refuses to let deliverance end in celebration of enemy destruction; grace turns the community toward grief over violence within its own story. Within that movement, this verse extends separate mourning to every remaining family and its women.
What Remains True
The lament reaches the whole community while preserving distinct experiences.
How It Can Shape Life
- Plan public remembrance that permits personal and family difference.
Continue in Context
The full thought-unit study remains the final contextual authority for this Verse Lens.
Read Zechariah 12:10-14 — Grace, the Pierced One, and Family-by-Family MourningSources used for this Verse Lens
How certain is this explanation? strong
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Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
eBible.org and CrossWire Bible Society
USFM archive eng-kjv2006_usfm.zip; source files dated 2026-08-19; downloaded 2026-08-24; archive SHA-256 aec1b3b26c622fd3d963d2bbac963016b9513246ffbfa20da00bb100372ea007; normalized corpus SHA-256 09aef51d90488aa7b9722b3fd9a93f4b25f6bf2064c5fd798fb39673c300ddf2.
Supports: Exact reader-facing Scripture wording, paragraph markers, supplied-word markup, and complete verse coverage.
Exact location: Zechariah 12:10-14, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM corpus
Open source ↗hebrew text and morphology
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible: Zechariah
Open Scriptures
Open Scriptures, release 2.2
Supports: Masoretic Hebrew wording, morphology, speaker changes, repeated formulas, names, and the base text behind translation discussion.
Exact location: Open Scriptures MorphHB v.2.2, commit 6a5db284c715c18b239422e57bb89684e6a19f00, wlc/Zech.xml, 12:10-14
Open source ↗translation and translator notes
NET Bible: Zechariah with translators' notes
Biblical Studies Press
Biblical Studies Press, 2006
Supports: Verse-level translation, syntax, textual, literary, historical, and canonical-reception notes.
Exact location: NET Bible Zechariah PDF, printed pp. 1798-1799, translation and notes on 12:10-14
Open source ↗modern critical commentary
Zechariah
Rex Mason
Oxford University Press, in The Oxford Bible Commentary, 2001
Supports: Whole-book movement, Persian and later horizons, literary boundaries, composition, and material alternatives.
Exact location: Mason, 'Zechariah,' Oxford Bible Commentary, printed pp. 614, discussion of 12:10-14
Open source ↗