Bible Verse Dictionary
Ecclesiastes 1:17 - Vexation
Verse | Strongs No. | Hebrew | |
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And I gave | H5414 | נָתַן |
[Verb] to {give} used with great latitude of application ({put } {make } etc.) |
my heart | H3820 | לֵב |
[Noun Masculine] the heart; also used (figuratively) very widely for the {feelings} the will and even the intellect; likewise for the centre of anything |
to know | 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.) |
wisdom | H2451 | חׇכְמָה |
[Noun Feminine] wisdom (in a good sense) |
and to know | 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.) |
madness | H1947 | הוֹלֵלָה |
[Noun Feminine] folly |
and folly | H5531 | סִכְלוּת |
[Noun Masculine] silliness |
I perceived | 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.) |
that this | H2088 | זֶה |
the masculine demonstrative {pronoun} this or that |
also | H7945 | שֶׁל |
used with prepositional {prefix} and often followed by some pronoun affixed; on account {of} what {soever} which soever |
is vexation | H7475 | רַעְיוֹן |
[Noun Masculine] desire |
of spirit | H7307 | רוּחַ |
[Noun Feminine] wind; by resemblance {breath} that {is} a sensible (or even violent) exhalation; figuratively {life} anger: unsubstantiality; by extension a region of the sky; by resemblance {spirit} but only of a rational being (including its expression and functions) |
Definitions are taken from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance
by James Strong (S.T.D.) (LL.D.) 1890.