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I sawרָאִיתִיallאֶת כָּלthe livingהַחַיִּיםwho walkהַמְהַלְּכִיםunderתַּחַתthe sun,הַשָּׁמֶשׁwith the youth,עִם הַיֶּלֶדthe second,הַשֵּׁנִיwhoאֲשֶׁרwill standיַעֲמֹדin his place.תַּחְתָּיו
Ecclesiastes 4:15
Study it in the app“I saw all the living who walk under the sun, with the youth, the second, who will stand in his place.”
With the Hebrew beneath
Ecclesiastes 4:15, word by word
- I sawרָאִיתִיraiti
see
To see with one's eyes.
Where else “raiti” appears- the livingחַיִּיםchayim
alive
Having life, not dead.
Where else “chayim” appears- who walkמְהַלְּכִיםmehalchim
walk
Literally "to go": to live a certain way, as Enoch with Elohim.
Where else “mehalchim” appears- the sunשָּׁמֶשׁshamesh
sun
The star that gives light and heat by day and marks the day and the year; "under the sun" means in this world.
Where else “shamesh” appears- with the youthיֶּלֶדyeled
youth
Young males, no longer children but not yet full-grown men.
Where else “yeled” appears- the secondשֵּׁנִיsheni
second
The one that comes after the first; the other of two.
Where else “sheni” appears- will standיַעֲמֹדyaamod
stand
To be on one's feet, firm in a place, or to rise up to act.
Where else “yaamod” appears
The context
14For from the house of the prisoners he came out to reign, though also in his kingdom he was born poor.
15 · This verse (above)
16There is no end to all the people, to all before whom he was; also the later ones will not rejoice in him. For this too is vapor and striving after wind.