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Ecclesiastes 6:9 Interlinear

“Better is the sight of the eyes than the wandering of the desire this is also vanity and vexation of spirit”

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Ecclesiastes 6 with commentary

Word-by-Word Analysis

#	Original	Strong's	English	Definition
1	ט֛וֹב	H2896	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
2	מַרְאֵ֥ה	H4758	is the sight	a view (the act of seeing); also an appearance (the thing seen), whether (real) a shape (especially if handsome, comeliness; often plural the looks),
3	עֵינַ֖יִם	H5869	of the eyes	an eye (literally or figuratively); by analogy, a fountain (as the eye of the landscape)
4	מֵֽהֲלָךְ	H1980	than the wandering	to walk (in a great variety of applications, literally and figuratively)
5	נָ֑פֶשׁ	H5315	of the desire	properly, a breathing creature, i.e., animal of (abstractly) vitality; used very widely in a literal, accommodated or figurative sense (bodily or ment
6	גַּם	H1571		properly, assemblage; used only adverbially also, even, yea, though; often repeated as correl. both...and
7	זֶ֥ה	H2088		the masculine demonstrative pronoun, this or that
8	הֶ֖בֶל	H1892	this is also vanity	emptiness or vanity; figuratively, something transitory and unsatisfactory; often used as an adverb
9	וּרְע֥וּת	H7469	and vexation	a feeding upon, i.e., grasping after
10	רֽוּחַ׃	H7307	of spirit	wind; by resemblance breath, i.e., a sensible (or even violent) exhalation; figuratively, life, anger, unsubstantiality; by extension, a region of the

Ecclesiastes 6:9 (current)Better is the sight of the eyes than the wandering of the desire this is also vanity and vexation of spirit