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Forכִּיin vaporבַהֶבֶלit came,בָּאand in darknessוּבַחֹשֶׁךְit goes,יֵלֵךְand with darknessוּבַחֹשֶׁךְits nameשְׁמוֹis covered.יְכֻסֶּה
Ecclesiastes 6:4
Study it in the app“For in vapor it came, and in darkness it goes, and with darkness its name is covered.”
With the Hebrew beneath
Ecclesiastes 6:4, word by word
- in vaporהֶבֶלhevel
vapor
A breath that passes and does not last; that brief is everything.
Where else “hevel” appears- it cameבָּאba
come
To come, arrive: "days are coming".
Where else “ba” appears- and in darknessחֹשֶׁךְchoshech
gloom
Distress, ignorance or death.
Where else “choshech” appears- it goesיֵלֵךְyelech
go
To head for a place, to leave where one is in order to reach another.
Where else “yelech” appears- its nameשְׁמshem
name
The word by which a person, place or thing is called and recognized.
Where else “shem” appears- is coveredיְכֻסֶּהyechuse
cover
To put something over a thing so that it can no longer be seen.
Where else “yechuse” appears
The context
3If 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.
4 · This verse (above)
5Also it has not seen the sun nor known it; there is more rest for this one than for that one.