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by James Strong (S.T.D.) (LL.D.) 1890.
Bible Verse Dictionary
Ecclesiastes 2:2 - Wine
Ecclesiastes 2:2 - I said of laughter, It is mad: and of mirth, What doeth it?
Verse | Strongs No. | Hebrew | |
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I said | H559 | אָמַר |
[Verb] to say (used with great latitude) |
of laughter | H7814 | שְׂחוֹק |
[Noun Masculine] laughter (in meriment or defiance) |
It | H2090 | זֹה |
[Feminine] this or that |
is mad | H1984 | הָלַל |
[Verb] to be clear (originally of {sound} but usually of color); to shine; hence to make a show; to boast; and thus to be (clamorously) foolish; to rave; causatively to celebrate; also to stultify |
and of mirth | H8057 | שִׂמְחָה |
[Noun Feminine] blithesomeness or {glee} (religious or festival) |
What | H4100 | מָה |
properly interrogitive what ? (including {how ?} why ? and when ?); but also exclamations like what ! (including {how !}) or indefinitely what (including {whatever} and even relatively that which); often used with prefixes in various adverbial or conjugational sneses |
doeth | H6213 | עָשָׂה |
[Verb] to do or {make} in the broadest sense and widest application |
it | H2090 | זֹה |
[Feminine] this or that |
Definitions are taken from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance
by James Strong (S.T.D.) (LL.D.) 1890.