רְעוּת
reut · striving, chasing
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H7469 · appears 7 times in the Bible
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reut (רְעוּת) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “striving, chasing”.
Striving (from the root "to feed, shepherd"); in "chasing after wind": the effort to catch the wind.
How to say it
re·ut
Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.
Its senses in the Bible
- Chasing what cannot be caught, like someone running after the wind.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
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Where it appears
- Ecclesiastes 1:14
I saw all the works that are done under the sun, and look, all is vapor and striving after wind.
- Ecclesiastes 2:11
And I turned to all my works that my hands had done and to the toil at which I had toiled in doing them, and look, all was vapor and striving after wind, and there was no profit under the sun.
- Ecclesiastes 2:17
And I hated life, for the work that is done under the sun was bad to me, for all is vapor and striving after wind.
- Ecclesiastes 2:26
For to the man who is good before him he gives wisdom and knowledge and joy, but to the sinner he gives the occupation of gathering and collecting, to give to the one who is good before Elohim. This too is vapor and striving after wind.
- Ecclesiastes 4:4
And I saw all the toil and all the skill of the work, that it is the envy of a man toward his neighbor. This too is vapor and striving after wind.
- Ecclesiastes 4:6
Better is a full palm with rest than two full fists with toil and striving after wind.
- Ecclesiastes 6:9
Better is the sight of the eyes than the going of the soul. This too is vapor and striving after wind.