What Does Ecclesiastes 6:3 Mean?

used very widely as demonstrative, lo!; interrogative, whether?; or conditional, if, although; also oh that!, when; hence, as a negative, not

“beget”

to bear young; causatively, to beget; medically, to act as midwife; specifically, to show lineage

“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)

“an hundred”

a hundred; also as a multiplicative and a fraction

“of his years”

a year (as a revolution of time)

“be many”

abundant (in quantity, size, age, number, rank, quality)

“children and live”

to live, whether literally or figuratively; causatively, to revive

“be many”

abundant (in quantity, size, age, number, rank, quality)

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

“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

“of his years”

a year (as a revolution of time)

“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

not (the simple or abs. negation); by implication, no; often used with other particles

“be not filled”

to sate, i.e., fill to satisfaction (literally or figuratively)

properly, a part of; hence (prepositionally), from or out of in many senses

“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

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

“and also that he have no burial”

sepulture; (concretely) a sepulcher

not (the simple or abs. negation); by implication, no; often used with other particles

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

“I say”

to say (used with great latitude)

“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

properly, a part of; hence (prepositionally), from or out of in many senses

“that an untimely birth”

something fallen, i.e., an abortion