Ecclesiastes 1:3

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Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all [is] vanity.	What profit hath a man of all his labour which he taketh under the sun?	[One] generation passeth away, and [another] generation cometh: but the earth abideth for ever.

Verse Text

KJV with Strong's Numbers

What profit^H3504 hath a man^H120 of all his labour^H5999 which he taketh^H5998 under the sun^H8121?

Original Hebrew

מַה־יִּתְרֹון לָאָדָם בְּכָל־עֲמָלֹו שֶׁיַּעֲמֹל תַּחַת הַשָּׁמֶשׁ׃

Hebrew	Transliteration	Strong's	Morphology	Gloss
מַה	mah-	H4100	HTi	what?
יִּתְר֖וֹן	yit.Ron	H3504	HNcmsa	profit
לָֽ/אָדָ֑ם	la./'a.Dam	H120	HRd/Ncmsa	(belongs) to (the)/ humankind
בְּ/כָל	be./khol	H3605	HR/Ncmsc	in/ all
עֲמָל֔/וֹ	a.ma.L/o	H5999	HNcbsc/Sp3ms	toil/ his
שֶֽׁ/יַּעֲמֹ֖ל	she/i.ya.'a.Mol	H5998	HTr/Vqi3ms	that/ he toils
תַּ֥חַת	Ta.chat	H8478	HR	under
הַ/שָּֽׁמֶשׁ	ha./Sha.mesh	H8121	HTd/Ncbsa	the/ sun

Source: Westminster Leningrad Codex (MorphHB), TAHOT (Tyndale House)

Strong's References

H120 — אָדָם (ʼâdâm, aw-dawm'): from אָדַם; ruddy i.e. a human being (an individual or the species, mankind, etc.); [idiom] another, [phrase] hypocrite, [phrase] common sort, [idiom] low, man (mean, of low degree), person.
H3504 — יִתְרוֹן (yithrôwn, yith-rone'): from יָתַר; preeminence, gain; better, excellency(-leth), profit(-able).
H5998 — עָמַל (ʻâmal, aw-mal'): a primitive root; to toil, i.e. work severely and with irksomeness; (take) labour (in).
H5999 — עָמָל (ʻâmâl, aw-mawl'): from עָמַל; toil, i.e. wearing effort; hence, worry, wheth. of body or mind; grievance(-vousness), iniquity, labour, mischief, miserable(-sery), pain(-ful), perverseness, sorrow, toil, travail, trouble, wearisome, wickedness.
H8121 — שֶׁמֶשׁ (shemesh, sheh'-mesh): from an unused root meaning to be brilliant; the sun; by implication, the east; figuratively, a ray, i.e. (architectural) a notched battlement; [phrase] east side(-ward), sun (rising), [phrase] west(-ward), window. See also בֵּית שֶׁמֶשׁ.

The following Strong's numbers are referenced in the Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) text but were not explicitly tagged in the KJV source:

H3605 — כֹּל (kôl, kole): or (Jeremiah 33:8) כּוֹל; from כָּלַל; properly, the whole; hence, all, any or every (in the singular only, but often in a plural sense); (in) all (manner, (ye)), altogether, any (manner), enough, every (one, place, thing), howsoever, as many as, (no-) thing, ought, whatsoever, (the) whole, whoso(-ever).
H4100 — מָה (mâh, maw): or מַה; or מָ; or מַ; also מֶה; a primitive particle; properly, interrogative what? (including how? why? when?); but also exclamation, what! (including how!), or indefinitely what (including whatever, and even relatively, that which); often used with prefixes in various adverbial or conjunctive senses; how (long, oft, (-soever)), (no-) thing, what (end, good, purpose, thing), whereby(-fore, -in, -to, -with), (for) why.
H8478 — תַּחַת (tachath, takh'-ath): from the same as תּוֹחַ; the bottom (as depressed); only adverbially, below (often with prepositional prefix underneath), in lieu of, etc.; as, beneath, [idiom] flat, in(-stead), (same) place (where...is), room, for...sake, stead of, under, [idiom] unto, [idiom] when...was mine, whereas, (where-) fore, with.

Cross References

Verse Cross-References (Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, Enhanced)

profit — Proverbs 23:4-5, Ecclesiastes 2:22, Ecclesiastes 3:9, Ecclesiastes 5:16, Isaiah 55:2, Habakkuk 2:13, Habakkuk 2:18, Matthew 16:26, Mark 8:36-37, John 6:27
under — Ecclesiastes 2:11, Ecclesiastes 2:19, Ecclesiastes 4:3, Ecclesiastes 4:7, Ecclesiastes 5:18, Ecclesiastes 6:12, Ecclesiastes 7:11, Ecclesiastes 8:15-17, Ecclesiastes 9:3, Ecclesiastes 9:6, Ecclesiastes 9:13

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