Bible Verse Dictionary
Ecclesiastes 12:3 - Few
Verse | Strongs No. | Hebrew | |
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In the day | H3117 | יוֹם |
[Noun Masculine] a day (as the warm {hours}) whether literally (from sunrise to {sunset} or from one sunset to the {next}) or figuratively (a space of time defined by an associated {term}) (often used adverbially) |
when the keepers | H8104 | שָׁמַר |
[Verb] properly to hedge about (as with {thorns}) that {is} guard; generally to {protect} attend {to} etc. |
of the house | H1004 | בַּיִת |
[Noun Masculine] a house (in the greatest variation of {applications} especially {family} etc.) |
shall tremble | H7945 | שֶׁל |
used with prepositional {prefix} and often followed by some pronoun affixed; on account {of} what {soever} which soever |
and the strong | H2428 | חַיִל |
[Noun Masculine] probably a {force} whether of {men} means or other resources; an {army} wealth: {virtue} {valor } strength |
men | H376 | אִישׁ |
[Noun Masculine] a man as an individual or a male person; often used as an adjunct to a more definite term (and in such cases frequently not expressed in translation.) |
shall bow themselves | H5791 | עָוַת |
[Verb] to wrest |
and the grinders | H2912 | טָחַן |
[Verb] to grind meal; hence to be a concubine (that being their employment) |
cease | H988 | בָּטֵל |
[Verb] to desist from labor |
because | H3588 | כִּי |
[Conjunction] (by implication) very widely used as a relative conjugation or adverb; often largely modified by other particles annexed |
they are few | H4591 | מָעַט |
[Verb] properly to pare {off} that {is} lessen; intransitively to be (or causatively to make) small or few (or figuratively ineffective) |
and those that look | H7200 | רָאָה |
[Verb] to {see} literally or figuratively (in numerous {applications} direct and {implied} {transitively} intransitively and causatively) |
out of the windows | H699 | אֲרֻבָּה |
[Noun Feminine] a lattice; (by implication) a {window} dove cot (because of the pigeon {holes}) chimney (with its apertures for {smoke}) sluice (with openings for water) |
be darkened | H2821 | חָשַׁךְ |
[Verb] to be dark (as withholding light); transitively to darken |
Definitions are taken from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance
by James Strong (S.T.D.) (LL.D.) 1890.