What Does Ecclesiastes 2:24 Mean?

a nonentity; generally used as a negative particle

“There is nothing 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

“for a man”

ruddy i.e., a human being (an individual or the species, mankind, etc.)

“than that he should eat”

to eat (literally or figuratively)

“and drink”

to imbibe (literally or figuratively)

to go (causatively, bring) out, in a great variety of applications, literally and figuratively, direct and proxim

properly, self (but generally used to point out more definitely the object of a verb or preposition, even or namely)

“and that he should make 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

“There is nothing 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

“in his labour”

toil, i.e., wearing effort; hence, worry, whether of body or mind

properly, assemblage; used only adverbially also, even, yea, though; often repeated as correl. both...and

“This”

this or that

“also I saw”

to see, literally or figuratively (in numerous applications, direct and implied, transitive, intransitive and causative)

i

(by implication) very widely used as a relative conjunction or adverb (as below); often largely modified by other particles annexed

“that it was from the 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

“of God”

gods in the ordinary sense; but specifically used (in the plural thus, especially with the article) of the supreme god; occasionally applied by way of

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