What Does Ecclesiastes 9:6 Mean?

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

“Also their love”

love

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

“and their hatred”

hate

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

“and their envy”

jealousy or envy

“is now”

properly, extent of time, i.e., a great while; hence, long ago, formerly, hitherto

“perished”

properly, to wander away, i.e., lose oneself; by implication to perish (causative, destroy)

“neither have they any more a portion”

properly, smoothness (of the tongue)

a nonentity; generally used as a negative particle

they (only used when emphatic)

properly, iteration or continuance; used only adverbially (with or without preposition), again, repeatedly, still, more

“for ever”

properly, concealed, i.e., the vanishing point; generally, time out of mind (past or future), i.e., (practically) eternity; frequentatively, adverbial

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

who, which, what, that; also (as an adverb and a conjunction) when, where, how, because, in order that, etc

“in any thing that is done”

to do or make, in the broadest sense and widest application

the bottom (as depressed); only adverbially, below (often with prepositional prefix underneath), in lieu of, etc

“under the sun”

the sun; by implication, the east; figuratively, a ray, i.e., (architectural) a notched battlement