Bible Verse Dictionary
Ecclesiastes 2:19 - Laboured
Verse | Strongs No. | Hebrew | |
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And who | H4310 | מִי |
also (indefinitely) whoever; often used in oblique construction with prefix or suffix |
knoweth | H3045 | יָדַע |
[Verb] to know (properly to ascertain by seeing); used in a great variety of {senses} {figuratively} {literally} euphemistically and inferentially (including {observation} care: recognition; and causatively {instruction} designation: {punishment} etc.) |
whether he shall be | H1961 | הָיָה |
[Verb] to {exist} that {is} be or {become} come to pass (always {emphatic} and not a mere copula or auxiliary) |
a wise | H2450 | חָכָם |
[Adjective] {wise} (that {is} {intelligent} skilful or artful) |
man or | H176 | אוֹ |
desire (and so probably in |
a fool | H5530 | סָכָל |
[Noun Masculine] silly |
yet shall he have rule | H7980 | שָׁלַט |
[Verb] to {dominate} that {is} govern; by implication to permit |
over all | H3605 | כֹּל |
[Noun Masculine] properly the whole; hence {all} any or every (in the singular {only} but often in a plural sense) |
my labour | H5999 | עָמָל |
[Noun] {toil} that {is} wearing effort; hence {worry} whether of body or mind |
wherein I have laboured | H7945 | שֶׁל |
used with prepositional {prefix} and often followed by some pronoun affixed; on account {of} what {soever} which soever |
and wherein I have shewed myself wise | H2450 | חָכָם |
[Adjective] {wise} (that {is} {intelligent} skilful or artful) |
under | H8478 | תַּחַת |
[Noun Masculine] the bottom (as depressed); only adverbially below (often with prepositional prefix {underneath }) in lieu {of} etc. |
the sun | H8121 | שֶׁמֶשׁ |
[Noun] the sun; by implication the east; figuratively a {ray} that {is} (architecturally) a notched battlement |
This | H2088 | זֶה |
the masculine demonstrative {pronoun} this or that |
is also | H1571 | גַּם |
[Adverb] properly assemblage; used only adverbially {also} even: {yea} though; often repeated as correlation both ... and |
vanity | H1892 | הֶבֶל |
[Noun Masculine] emptiness or vanity; figuratively something transitory and unsatisfactory; often used as an adverb |
Definitions are taken from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance
by James Strong (S.T.D.) (LL.D.) 1890.