Ifאִםa manאִישׁfathersיוֹלִידa hundredמֵאָהand livesוְ יִחְיֶהmany years,שָׁנִים רַבּוֹתand manyוְרַבareשֶׁיִּהְיוּthe daysיְמֵיof his years,שָׁנָיוbut his soulוְנַפְשׁוֹis notלֹאsatisfiedתִשְׂבַּעwith good,מִן הַטּוֹבָהand alsoוְגַםhe has hadהָיְתָה לּוֹnoלֹאburial,קְבוּרָהI say,אָמַרְתִּיbetterטוֹבthan heמִמֶּנּוּis the stillborn.הַנָּפֶל
Ecclesiastes 6:3
Study it in the app“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.”
With the Hebrew beneath
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.
Where else “yeme” appears- 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.