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by James Strong (S.T.D.) (LL.D.) 1890.
Bible Verse Dictionary
Ecclesiastes 3:1 - Under
Ecclesiastes 3:1 - To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:
| Verse | Strongs No. | Hebrew | |
|---|---|---|---|
| To every | H3605 | כֹּל |
[Noun Masculine] properly the whole; hence {all} any or every (in the singular {only} but often in a plural sense) |
| thing there is a season | H2165 | זְמָן |
[Noun Masculine] an appointed occasion |
| and a time | H6256 | עֵת |
[Noun Feminine] {time} especially (adverbially with preposition) {now} {when } etc. |
| to every | H3605 | כֹּל |
[Noun Masculine] properly the whole; hence {all} any or every (in the singular {only} but often in a plural sense) |
| purpose | H2656 | חֵפֶץ |
[Noun Masculine] pleasure; hence (abstractly) desire; concretely a valuable thing; hence (by extension) a matter (as something in mind) |
| under | H8478 | תַּחַת |
[Noun Masculine] the bottom (as depressed); only adverbially below (often with prepositional prefix {underneath }) in lieu {of} etc. |
| the heaven | H8064 | שָׁמַיִם |
[Noun Masculine] from an unused root meaning to be lofty; the sky (as aloft; the dual perhaps alluding to the visible arch in which the clouds {move} as well as to the higher ether where the celestial bodies revolve) |
Definitions are taken from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance
by James Strong (S.T.D.) (LL.D.) 1890.