King James Version
Ecclesiastes 3:1 in the King James Version says “To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:” — study this verse from Ecclesiastes chapter 3 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:”
Ecclesiastes 3:1 · KJV
To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:
A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted; to be: Heb. to bear
A time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up;
KJV Study — Public Domain
properly, the whole; hence, all, any or every (in the singular only, but often in a plural sense)
properly, the whole; hence, all, any or every (in the singular only, but often in a plural sense)
“to every purpose”
H2656pleasure; hence (abstractly) desire; concretely, a valuable thing; hence (by extension) a matter (as something in mind)
the bottom (as depressed); only adverbially, below (often with prepositional prefix underneath), in lieu of, etc
“under the heaven”
H8064the sky (as aloft; the dual perhaps alluding to the visible arch in which the clouds move, as well as to the higher ether where the celestial bodies r
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