Verse 7
7. While the interpreter was still speaking, the cover was lifted from the top of the ephah.
A talent of lead Literally, a circle; margin, “a round piece” (of lead). The ephah is pictured as round. Now the prophet beholds the contents.
And this is a woman that sitteth in the midst of the ephah If the first part of Zechariah 5:7 is taken as a parenthetical clause (so R.V.), these words are a continuation of Zechariah 5:6, dependent on “He said moreover.” If Zechariah 5:7 is taken by itself as describing the sight which met the prophet’s eyes, a better rendering would be, “And, behold! a round piece of lead was lifted up; and (behold) this! one (lone) woman sitting in the midst of the ephah”; one woman is in apposition to this (G.-K., 136d, note). It says not “a woman,” but “one woman”; the numeral is used to indicate that nothing else was in the ephah.
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