Allאֶת כָּלthisזֶהI saw,רָאִיתִיand I gaveוְנָתוֹןmy heartאֶת לִבִּיto everyלְכָלworkמַעֲשֶׂהthatאֲשֶׁרis doneנַעֲשָׂהunderתַּחַתthe sun,הַשָּׁמֶשׁa timeעֵתin whichאֲשֶׁרthe human beingהָאָדָםrulesשָׁלַטover a human beingבְּאָדָםto his harm.לְרַע לוֹ
Ecclesiastes 8:9
Study it in the app“All this I saw, and I gave my heart to every work that is done under the sun, a time in which the human being rules over a human being to his harm.”
With the Hebrew beneath
Ecclesiastes 8:9, word by word
- I sawרָאִיתִיraiti
see
To see with one's eyes.
Where else “raiti” appears- and I gaveנָתוֹןnaton
give
To hand something over to someone: a gift, a payment, a charge or a land.
Where else “naton” appears- my heartלִבִּlibi
heart
The deepest part of a person: where they think, feel and decide.
Where else “libi” appears- workמַעֲשֶׂהmaase
work
What someone does: his works, and especially what God does.
Where else “maase” appears- is doneנַעֲשָׂהnaasa
do
To carry out an act or to deal with someone in a certain way, for good or ill.
Where else “naasa” 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- a timeעֵתet
time
The moment at which something happens; also "at that time".
Where else “et” appears- the human beingאָדָםadam
human being
All humankind, men and women, as creatures God formed.
Where else “adam” appears- rulesשָׁלַטshalat
dominate, rule
To dominate, to have power over another.
Where else “shalat” appears- to his harmרַעra
harm
Something that hurts, a disaster.
Where else “ra” appears
The context
8There is no human being with power over the breath to retain the breath, nor is there power over the day of death, nor is there discharge in war, nor will wickedness deliver its owners.
9 · This verse (above)
10And so I saw the wicked buried, and they came, and from the holy place they would go, and they were forgotten in the city where they had done so. This too is vapor.