Ecclesiastes 8:9

“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.”

Ecclesiastes 8:9 · direct translation from the Hebrew
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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.

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