Bible Verse Dictionary
Ecclesiastes 2:3 - What
Verse | Strongs No. | Hebrew | |
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I sought | H8446 | תּוּר |
[Verb] to meander (causatively guide) {about} especially for trade or reconnoitring |
in mine 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 give | H4900 | מָשַׁךְ |
[Verb] to {draw} used in a great variety of applications (including to {sow} to {sound} to {prolong} to {develop} to {march} to {remove} to {delay} to be {tall} etc.) |
myself | H1320 | בָּשָׂר |
[Noun Masculine] flesh (from its freshness); by extension {body} person; also (by euphemism) the pudenda of a man |
unto wine | H3196 | יַיִן |
[Noun Masculine] wine (as fermented); by implication intoxication |
yet acquainting | H5090 | נָהַג |
[Verb] to drive forth (a {person} an animal or {chariot}) that {is} lead: carry away; reflexively to proceed (that {is} impel or guide oneself); also (from the panting induced by {effort}) to sigh |
mine 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 |
with wisdom | H2451 | חׇכְמָה |
[Noun Feminine] wisdom (in a good sense) |
and to lay hold | H270 | אָחַז |
[Verb] to seize (often with the accessory idea of holding in possession) |
on folly | H5531 | סִכְלוּת |
[Noun Masculine] silliness |
till | H5704 | עַד |
[Preposition] especially with a preposition); as far (or {long} or much) {as} whether of space (even unto) or time ({during } while: until) or degree (equally with) |
I might see | H7200 | רָאָה |
[Verb] to {see} literally or figuratively (in numerous {applications} direct and {implied} {transitively} intransitively and causatively) |
what | H335 | אַי |
where ? hence how? |
was that | H2088 | זֶה |
the masculine demonstrative {pronoun} this or that |
good | H2896 | טוֹב |
[Adjective] good (as an adjective) in the widest sense; used likewise as a {noun} both in the masculine and the {feminine} the singular and the plural ({good } a good or good {thing} a good man or woman; the {good} goods or good {things} good men or {women}) also as an adverb (well) |
for the sons | H1121 | בֵּן |
[Noun Masculine] a son (as a builder of the family {name}) in the widest sense (of literal and figurative {relationship} including {grandson} subject: {nation} quality or {condition} {etc.} (like {H1 } {H251 } etc.) |
of men | H120 | אָדָם |
[Noun Masculine] {ruddy} that {is} a human being (an individual or the {species} {mankind } etc.) |
which | H834 | אֲשֶׁר |
{who} which: {what} that; also (as adverb and conjunction) {when} where: {how} because: in order {that} etc. |
they should do | H6213 | עָשָׂה |
[Verb] to do or {make} in the broadest sense and widest application |
under | H8478 | תַּחַת |
[Noun Masculine] the bottom (as depressed); only adverbially below (often with prepositional prefix {underneath }) in lieu {of} etc. |
the heaven | H8064 | שָׁמַיִם |
[Noun Masculine] from an unused root meaning to be lofty; the sky (as aloft; the dual perhaps alluding to the visible arch in which the clouds {move} as well as to the higher ether where the celestial bodies revolve) |
all | H4557 | מִסְפָּר |
[Noun Masculine] a {number} definitely (arithmetical) or indefinitely ({large} innumerable; {small} a few); also (abstractly) narration |
the days | 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) |
of their life | H2416 | חַי |
[Adjective] alive; hence raw (flesh); fresh ({plant} {water} {year}) strong; also (as {noun} especially in the feminine singular and masculine plural) life (or living {thing}) whether literally or figuratively |
Definitions are taken from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance
by James Strong (S.T.D.) (LL.D.) 1890.