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Whoever watchesשֹׁמֵרthe windרוּחַwill notלֹאsow,יִזְרָעand whoever looksוְרֹאֶהat the cloudsבֶעָבִיםwill notלֹאreap.יִקְצוֹר
Ecclesiastes 11:4
Study it in the app“Whoever watches the wind will not sow, and whoever looks at the clouds will not reap.”
With the Hebrew beneath
Ecclesiastes 11:4, word by word
- Whoever watchesשֹׁמֵרshomer
preserve
To keep something, or watch and wait.
Where else “shomer” appears- the windרוּחַruach
wind
Moving air; also the four quarters of the horizon.
Where else “ruach” appears- sowיִזְרָעyizra
sow
To put seed in the ground.
Where else “yizra” appears- and whoever looksרֹאֶהroe
see
To see with one's eyes.
Where else “roe” appears- at the cloudsעָבִיםavim
thick cloud
A dark, laden cloud that brings rain or storm.
Where else “avim” appears- reapיִקְצוֹרyiktsor
reap
To cut the ripe grain; those who cut it.
Where else “yiktsor” appears
The context
3If the clouds are full of rain, on the earth they empty it; and if a tree falls to the south or to the north, in the place where the tree falls, there it will be.
4 · This verse (above)
5As you do not know what is the way of the breath, as the bones in the womb of the pregnant woman, so you do not know the work of Elohim who does everything.