Ecclesiastes 9:7

“Go, eat your bread with joy, and drink your wine with a good heart, for already Elohim has been pleased with your works.”

Ecclesiastes 9:7 · direct translation from the Hebrew
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The Teacher says: eat your bread with joy and drink your wine with a glad heartJoy and thanks

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Ecclesiastes 9:7, word by word

Goלֵךְlech

go

To head for a place, to leave where one is in order to reach another.

Where else “lech” appears
eatאֱכֹלechol

eat

To bring food to the mouth and swallow it, above all at a shared table.

Where else “echol” appears
your breadלַחְמֶlachme

bread

Food made of kneaded, baked flour: the basis of each day's meal.

Where else “lachme” appears
with joyשִׂמְחָהsimcha

joy

Joy, gladness, celebration.

Where else “simcha” appears
and drinkשֲׁתֵהshate

drink

Drink.

Where else “shate” appears
your wineיֵינֶyene

wine

Wine; also drunkenness.

Where else “yene” appears
with a good heartלֶבlev

heart

The deepest part of a person: where they think, feel and decide.

Where else “lev” appears
with a good heartטוֹבtov

glad

Light of spirit and at ease, with a peaceful heart.

Where else “tov” appears
alreadyכְבָרchevar

already, long ago

Already; long ago, formerly.

Where else “chevar” appears
Elohimאֱלֹהִיםelohim

Elohim

The one true God, the Creator; the word is plural but means one.

Where else “elohim” appears
has been pleased withרָצָהratsa

take pleasure

To look on someone with pleasure.

Where else “ratsa” appears
your worksמַעֲשֶׂיmaase

work

What someone does: his works, and especially what God does.

Where else “maase” appears

The context

6Both their love and their hatred and their envy have already perished, and they have no longer a portion forever in all that is done under the sun.

7 · This verse (above)

8At every time let your garments be white, and let oil on your head not be lacking.

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