Zechariah 5:1 Meaning and Explanation
“Then I turned, and lifted up mine eyes, and looked, and behold a flying roll.”
King James Version (KJV)
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Read Full Chapter →The prophet looks up again and sees a great scroll soaring through the air.
What Does Zechariah 5:1 Mean?
This opens the sixth in the night sequence of visions God gives Zechariah after the return from exile. The familiar phrase, 'I lifted up mine eyes, and looked,' signals a new scene, and what appears is startling: a scroll, normally held in the hand and read at rest, here flying open across the sky.
A written scroll in flight is a picture of God's word set loose and moving. What is recorded does not stay folded on a shelf; it goes out over the land with purpose. For the reader it is a reminder that the words God speaks are living and active, carrying His will to the very places that need to hear it.
Zechariah 5:1 in the Original Language
megillah (מְגִלָּה), 'roll' -- a rolled scroll, the ordinary form of a written document.
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What does Zechariah 5:1 mean?
The prophet looks up again and sees a great scroll soaring through the air.