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Forכִּיwhoמִיwill eat,יֹאכַלand whoוּמִיwill enjoyיָחוּשׁapartחוּץfrom me?מִמֶּנִּי
Ecclesiastes 2:25
Study it in the app“For who will eat, and who will enjoy apart from me?”
With the Hebrew beneath
Ecclesiastes 2:25, word by word
- will eatיֹאכַלyochal
eat
To bring food to the mouth and swallow it, above all at a shared table.
Where else “yochal” appears- will enjoyיָחוּשׁyachush
enjoy
To enjoy what one eats and has.
Where else “yachush” appears- apartחוּץchuts
outside
What lies outside the house, the city or the camp.
Where else “chuts” appears
Translation note
The ancient Greek translation reads “apart from him.”
The context
24There is no good in the man that he should eat and drink and make his soul see good in his toil. This also I saw, that it is from the hand of Elohim.
25 · This verse (above)
26For to the man who is good before him he gives wisdom and knowledge and joy, but to the sinner he gives the occupation of gathering and collecting, to give to the one who is good before Elohim. This too is vapor and striving after wind.