📖 Biblical Definition
A post-exilic apocalyptic-prophetic book whose night visions and messianic oracles point to the coming of Christ as humble King, pierced Shepherd, and returning Lord on the Mount of Olives.
📜 Webster 1828 Definition
ZECHARIAH, n. The eleventh of the minor prophets, contemporary with Haggai.
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ZECHARIAH, n. A Hebrew prophet of priestly descent who, with Haggai, encouraged the rebuilding of the second temple, and whose canonical book contains eight symbolic night visions, oracles concerning the coming Branch, the humble King riding upon an ass, the Shepherd sold for thirty pieces of silver, the One pierced whom they shall look upon, and the Lord's feet standing on the Mount of Olives.
📖 Key Scripture
Zechariah 4:6 — "Not by might nor by power, but by My Spirit, says the LORD of hosts."
Zechariah 9:9 — "Behold, your King is coming to you…lowly and riding on a donkey."
Zechariah 12:10 — "They will look on Me whom they pierced."
Zechariah 14:4 — "And in that day His feet will stand on the Mount of Olives."
⚠️ Modern Corruption
Mined for messianic proof-texts in isolation; the integrated apocalyptic vision rarely preached.
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No major postmodern corruption of the book itself. The risk is simply that it gets read less, or read past. The corruption that hides in the gap is the corruption of forgetting — and forgetting Scripture is the slow corruption.
🔗 Greek & Hebrew Roots
Key terms: tsemach (Branch), ruach (Spirit), daqar (pierce).
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Usage
"Zechariah is the gospel of the Old Testament in eight visions."
"Not by might, not by power — the church's only working budget."
"They will look on Him whom they pierced — and we are among the looking."