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This alsoגַּם זֹהI sawרָאִיתִי— wisdomחָכְמָהunderתַּחַתthe sunהַשָּׁמֶשׁand it wasוּ הִיאgreatגְדוֹלָהto me:אֵלָי
Ecclesiastes 9:13
Study it in the app“This also I saw — wisdom under the sun and it was great to me:”
With the Hebrew beneath
Ecclesiastes 9:13, word by word
- This alsoזֹהzo
this, thus
This, thus: a word that points to something already said or about to be said.
Where else “zo” appears- I sawרָאִיתִיraiti
see
To see with one's eyes.
Where else “raiti” appears- — wisdomחָכְמָהchachma
wisdom
Knowing how to live well; it begins with revering YHWH.
Where else “chachma” 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- greatגְדוֹלָהgedola
great
Of great size, amount or importance: a river, a city, a king.
Where else “gedola” appears
The context
12For also the human being does not know his time; like fish that are caught in an evil net, and like birds caught in the snare, so are human beings ensnared at an evil time when it falls on them suddenly.
13 · This verse (above)
14There was a small city and few men in it, and there came against it a great king and surrounded it and built against it great bulwarks.