Zechariah 6:8 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Bible Comments

cried. upon. Are almost obsolete idiom. To "cry upon" meant to call to, or appeal to, and is still used in this sense in Scotland. It comes to us through the Genevan Bible (1560), from the Great Bible (1539), and Coverdale (1534). It is the sense of the Hebrew z. ak here. See Judges 4:10; 3 John 1:3; 3 John 1:3 :7, &c.

quieted. caused [mine anger] to rest upon. This is the force of the Hebrew Hiphil.

spirit. Hebrew. ruach App-9. Put by Fig, Metonymy (of Cause), App-6, for the manifestation of it in feeling: here, anger, wrath, Compare Judges 8:3,

Zechariah 6:8

8 Then cried he upon me, and spake unto me, saying, Behold, these that go toward the north country have quieted my spirit in the north country.