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And Iוְ אֲנִיturnedשַׁבְתִּיand sawוָאֶרְאֶהvaporהֶבֶלunderתַּחַתthe sun:הַשָּׁמֶשׁ
Ecclesiastes 4:7
Study it in the app“And I turned and saw vapor under the sun:”
With the Hebrew beneath
Ecclesiastes 4:7, word by word
- turnedשַׁבְתִּיshavti
return
To go back to a place.
Where else “shavti” appears- and sawאֶרְאֶהere
see
To see with one's eyes.
Where else “ere” appears- vaporהֶבֶלhevel
vapor
A breath that passes and does not last; that brief is everything.
Where else “hevel” 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
The context
6Better is a full palm with rest than two full fists with toil and striving after wind.
7 · This verse (above)
8There is one, and no second; he has neither son nor brother, and there is no end to all his toil; also his eye is not satisfied with riches. “And for whom am I toiling and depriving my soul of good?” This too is vapor, and it is a bad occupation.