What Does Ecclesiastes 2:7 Mean?

“I got”

to erect, i.e., create; by extension, to procure, especially by purchase (causatively, sell); by implication to own

“me servants”

a servant

“and maidens”

a female slave (as a member of the household)

“and had servants born”

a son (as a builder of the family name), in the widest sense (of literal and figurative relationship, including grandson, subject, nation, quality or

“in my house”

a house (in the greatest variation of applications, especially family, etc.)

to exist, i.e., be or become, come to pass (always emphatic, and not a mere copula or auxiliary)

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

“possessions”

something bought, i.e., property, but only live stock; abstractly, acquisition

“of great”

a beeve or an animal of the ox family of either gender (as used for plowing); collectively, a herd

“and small cattle”

a collective name for a flock (of sheep or goats); also figuratively (of men)

“also I had great”

to increase (in whatever respect)

to exist, i.e., be or become, come to pass (always emphatic, and not a mere copula or auxiliary)

properly, the whole; hence, all, any or every (in the singular only, but often in a plural sense)

to exist, i.e., be or become, come to pass (always emphatic, and not a mere copula or auxiliary)

“before”

the face (as the part that turns); used in a great variety of applications (literally and figuratively); also (with prepositional prefix) as a preposi

“above all that were in Jerusalem”

jerushalaim or jerushalem, the capital city of palestine