Bible Verse Dictionary
Ecclesiastes 2:22 - Labour
Verse | Strongs No. | Hebrew | |
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For | H3588 | כִּי |
[Conjunction] (by implication) very widely used as a relative conjugation or adverb; often largely modified by other particles annexed |
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 |
hath | H1933 | הָוָא |
[Verb] to be (in the sense of existence) |
man | H120 | אָדָם |
[Noun Masculine] {ruddy} that {is} a human being (an individual or the {species} {mankind } etc.) |
of all | H3605 | כֹּל |
[Noun Masculine] properly the whole; hence {all} any or every (in the singular {only} but often in a plural sense) |
his labour | H5999 | עָמָל |
[Noun] {toil} that {is} wearing effort; hence {worry} whether of body or mind |
and of the vexation | H7475 | רַעְיוֹן |
[Noun Masculine] desire |
of his 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 |
wherein he | H7945 | שֶׁל |
used with prepositional {prefix} and often followed by some pronoun affixed; on account {of} what {soever} which soever |
hath | H1933 | הָוָא |
[Verb] to be (in the sense of existence) |
laboured | H6001 | עָמֵל |
[Noun Masculine] toiling; concretely a laborer; figuratively sorrowful |
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 |
Definitions are taken from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance
by James Strong (S.T.D.) (LL.D.) 1890.