Hebrew Interlinear
Ecclesiastes 6:3 Interlinear
“ beget If a man an hundred of his years be many children and live be many so that the days of his years and his soul be not filled is better and also that he have no burial I say is better that an untimely birth”
Word-by-Word Analysis
| # | Original | Strong's | English | Definition |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | אִם | H518 | used very widely as demonstrative, lo!; interrogative, whether?; or conditional, if, although; also oh that!, when; hence, as a negative, not | |
| 2 | יוֹלִ֣יד | H3205 | beget | to bear young; causatively, to beget; medically, to act as midwife; specifically, to show lineage |
| 3 | אִ֣ישׁ | H376 | If a man | a man as an individual or a male person; often used as an adjunct to a more definite term (and in such cases frequently not expressed in translation) |
| 4 | מֵאָ֡ה | H3967 | an hundred | a hundred; also as a multiplicative and a fraction |
| 5 | שָׁנָ֗יו | H8141 | of his years | a year (as a revolution of time) |
| 6 | וְרַ֣ב׀ | H7227 | be many | abundant (in quantity, size, age, number, rank, quality) |
| 7 | יִֽחְיֶ֜ה | H2421 | children and live | to live, whether literally or figuratively; causatively, to revive |
| 8 | וְרַ֣ב׀ | H7227 | be many | abundant (in quantity, size, age, number, rank, quality) |
| 9 | שֶׁיִּהְי֣וּ | H1961 | to exist, i.e., be or become, come to pass (always emphatic, and not a mere copula or auxiliary) | |
| 10 | יְמֵֽי | H3117 | so that the days | a day (as the warm hours), whether literal (from sunrise to sunset, or from one sunset to the next), or figurative (a space of time defined by an asso |
| 11 | שָׁנָ֗יו | H8141 | of his years | a year (as a revolution of time) |
| 12 | וְנַפְשׁוֹ֙ | H5315 | and his soul | properly, a breathing creature, i.e., animal of (abstractly) vitality; used very widely in a literal, accommodated or figurative sense (bodily or ment |
| 13 | לֹא | H3808 | not (the simple or abs. negation); by implication, no; often used with other particles | |
| 14 | תִשְׂבַּ֣ע | H7646 | be not filled | to sate, i.e., fill to satisfaction (literally or figuratively) |
| 15 | מִן | H4480 | properly, a part of; hence (prepositionally), from or out of in many senses | |
| 16 | ט֥וֹב | H2896 | is better | good (as an adjective) in the widest sense; used likewise as a noun, both in the masculine and the feminine, the singular and the plural (good, a good |
| 17 | וְגַם | H1571 | properly, assemblage; used only adverbially also, even, yea, though; often repeated as correl. both...and | |
| 18 | קְבוּרָ֖ה | H6900 | and also that he have no burial | sepulture; (concretely) a sepulcher |
| 19 | לֹא | H3808 | not (the simple or abs. negation); by implication, no; often used with other particles | |
| 20 | הָ֣יְתָה | H1961 | to exist, i.e., be or become, come to pass (always emphatic, and not a mere copula or auxiliary) | |
| 21 | לּ֑וֹ | H0 | ||
| 22 | אָמַ֕רְתִּי | H559 | I say | to say (used with great latitude) |
| 23 | ט֥וֹב | H2896 | is better | good (as an adjective) in the widest sense; used likewise as a noun, both in the masculine and the feminine, the singular and the plural (good, a good |
| 24 | מִמֶּ֖נּוּ | H4480 | properly, a part of; hence (prepositionally), from or out of in many senses | |
| 25 | הַנָּֽפֶל׃ | H5309 | that an untimely birth | something fallen, i.e., an abortion |
Verse Context
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