רַעְיוֹן
raon · striving, thought
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H7475 · appears 3 times in the Bible
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raon (רַעְיוֹן) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “striving, thought”.
Striving, effort; a thought or longing (as in "chasing after wind" or "striving of the heart").
How to say it
ra·on
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
- Effort after something never reached.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
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Words that come from it
Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- Ecclesiastes 1:17
And I gave my heart to know wisdom and to know madness and witlessness; I knew that this also is striving after wind.
- Ecclesiastes 2:22
For what is there for the man in all his toil and in the striving of his heart with which he toils under the sun?
- Ecclesiastes 4:16
There is no end to all the people, to all before whom he was; also the later ones will not rejoice in him. For this too is vapor and striving after wind.