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Ecclesiastes 5:14 Interlinear

“perish But those riches travail by evil and he begetteth a son in his hand and there is nothing”

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Ecclesiastes 5 with commentary

Word-by-Word Analysis

#	Original	Strong's	English	Definition
1	וְאָבַ֛ד	H6	perish	properly, to wander away, i.e., lose oneself; by implication to perish (causative, destroy)
2	הָעֹ֥שֶׁר	H6239	But those riches	wealth
3	הַה֖וּא	H1931		he (she or it); only expressed when emphatic or without a verb; also (intensively) self, or (especially with the article) the same; sometimes (as demo
4	בְּעִנְיַ֣ן	H6045	travail	ado, i.e., (generally) employment or (specifically) an affair
5	רָ֑ע	H7451	by evil	bad or (as noun) evil (natural or moral)
6	וְהוֹלִ֣יד	H3205	and he begetteth	to bear young; causatively, to beget; medically, to act as midwife; specifically, to show lineage
7	בֵּ֔ן	H1121	a son	a son (as a builder of the family name), in the widest sense (of literal and figurative relationship, including grandson, subject, nation, quality or
8	וְאֵ֥ין	H369		a nonentity; generally used as a negative particle
9	בְּיָד֖וֹ	H3027	in his hand	a hand (the open one [indicating power, means, direction, etc.], in distinction from h3709, the closed one); used (as noun, adverb, etc.) in a great v
10	מְאֽוּמָה׃	H3972	and there is nothing	properly, a speck or point, i.e., (by implication) something; with negative, nothing

Ecclesiastes 5:14 (current)perish But those riches travail by evil and he begetteth a son in his hand and there is nothing