Ecclesiastes 6:3

“If a man fathers a hundred and lives many years, and many are the days of his years, but his soul is not satisfied with good, and also he has had no burial, I say, better than he is the stillborn.”

Ecclesiastes 6:3 · direct translation from the Hebrew
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Ecclesiastes 6:3, word by word

a manאִישׁish

man

An adult male person; also each man of a people, a trade or a place.

Where else “ish” appears
fathersיוֹלִידyolid

father

For a man to have a child.

Where else “yolid” appears
a hundredמֵאָהmea

hundred

The amount of one hundred; with other numbers it forms two hundred, three hundred and the rest.

Where else “mea” appears
and livesיִחְיֶהyichye

live

To have breath and remain in this world, not die.

Where else “yichye” appears
many yearsשָׁנִיםshanim

year

Each full turn of the seasons, by which time is counted.

Where else “shanim” appears
many yearsרַבּוֹתrabot

many

A great number of people or things.

Where else “rabot” appears
areיִּהְיוּyihyu

be

To be: "I will be their Elohim".

Where else “yihyu” appears
the daysיְמֵיyeme

time

Literally "the days": a period, an age, or the span of someone's life.

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but his soulנַפְשׁnafsh

appetite

Hunger or craving; the throat.

Where else “nafsh” appears
satisfiedתִשְׂבַּעtisba

be sated

To have plenty, be fed up.

Where else “tisba” appears
with goodטּוֹבָהtova

good

What is as it should be and gives delight: sound, useful, beautiful or valuable.

Where else “tova” appears
burialקְבוּרָהkevura

grave

Grave, tomb; burial.

Where else “kevura” appears
I sayאָמַרְתִּיamarti

say

To say with the mouth to someone what one thinks or wants, or to answer him.

Where else “amarti” appears
is the stillbornנָּפֶלnafel

stillborn child

A stillborn child: a child born before its time and without life.

Where else “nafel” appears

The context

2a man to whom Elohim gives riches and possessions and honor, and he is not lacking for his soul anything of all that he desires; but Elohim does not give him power to eat from it, for a foreigner eats it. This is vapor and a bad sickness.

3 · This verse (above)

4For in vapor it came, and in darkness it goes, and with darkness its name is covered.

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