Hebrew Interlinear

Ecclesiastes 3:1 Interlinear

“ To every thing there is a season and a time to every purpose under the heaven”

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Ecclesiastes 3 with commentary

Word-by-Word Analysis

#	Original	Strong's	English	Definition
1	לַכֹּ֖ל	H3605		properly, the whole; hence, all, any or every (in the singular only, but often in a plural sense)
2	זְמָ֑ן	H2165	To every thing there is a season	an appointed occasion
3	וְעֵ֥ת	H6256	and a time	time, especially (adverb with preposition) now, when, etc
4	לְכָל	H3605		properly, the whole; hence, all, any or every (in the singular only, but often in a plural sense)
5	חֵ֖פֶץ	H2656	to every purpose	pleasure; hence (abstractly) desire; concretely, a valuable thing; hence (by extension) a matter (as something in mind)
6	תַּ֥חַת	H8478		the bottom (as depressed); only adverbially, below (often with prepositional prefix underneath), in lieu of, etc
7	הַשָּׁמָֽיִם׃	H8064	under the heaven	the sky (as aloft; the dual perhaps alluding to the visible arch in which the clouds move, as well as to the higher ether where the celestial bodies r

Ecclesiastes 3:1 (current) To every thing there is a season and a time to every purpose under the heaven