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Ecclesiastes 2:15

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The wise man's eyes [are] in his head; but the fool walketh in darkness: and I myself perceived also that one event happeneth to them all.	Then said I in my heart, As it happeneth to the fool, so it happeneth even to me; and why was I then more wise? Then I said in my heart, that this also [is] vanity.	For [there is] no remembrance of the wise more than of the fool for ever; seeing that which now [is] in the days to come shall all be forgotten. And how dieth the wise [man]? as the fool.

Verse Text

KJV with Strong's Numbers

Then^H227 said^H559 I in my heart^H3820, As it happeneth^H4745 to the fool^H3684, so it happeneth^H7136 even to me^H1571; and why was I then more^H3148 wise^H2449? Then I said^H1696 in my heart^H3820, that this also is vanity^H1892.

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Original Hebrew

וְאָמַרְתִּי אֲנִי בְּלִבִּי כְּמִקְרֵה הַכְּסִיל גַּם־אֲנִי יִקְרֵנִי וְלָמָּה חָכַמְתִּי אֲנִי אָז יֹותֵר וְדִבַּרְתִּי בְלִבִּי שֶׁגַּם־זֶה הָבֶל׃

Hebrew	Transliteration	Strong's	Morphology	Gloss
וְ/אָמַ֨רְתִּֽי	ve./'a.Mar.ti	H559	HC/Vqp1cs	and/ I said
אֲנִ֜י	'a.Ni	H589	HPp1cs	I
בְּ/לִבִּ֗/י	be./li.B/i	H3820	HR/Ncmsc/Sp1cs	in/ heart/ my
כְּ/מִקְרֵ֤ה	ke./mik.Reh	H4745	HR/Ncmsc	like/ (the) fate of
הַ/כְּסִיל֙	ha./ke.Sil	H3684	HTd/Aamsa	the/ fool
גַּם	gam-	H1571	HTa	also
אֲנִ֣י	'a.Ni	H589	HPp1cs	me
יִקְרֵ֔/נִי	yik.Re./ni	H7136	HVqi3ms/Sp1cs	it will happen to/ me
וְ/לָ֧/מָּה	ve./La./mah	H4100	HC/R/Ti	and/ (to)/ why?
חָכַ֛מְתִּי	cha.Kham.ti	H2449	HVqp1cs	have I become wise
אֲנִ֖י	'a.Ni	H589	HPp1cs	I
אָ֣ז	'az	H227	HD	then
יוֹתֵ֑ר	yo.Ter	H3148	HNcmsa	excessively
וְ/דִבַּ֣רְתִּי	ve./di.Bar.ti	H1696	HC/Vpp1cs	and/ I said
בְ/לִבִּ֔/י	ve./li.B/i	H3820	HR/Ncmsc/Sp1cs	in/ heart/ my
שֶׁ/גַּם	she./gam-	H1571	HTr/D	that/ also
זֶ֖ה	zeh	H2088	HPdxms	this
הָֽבֶל	Ha.vel	H1892	HNcmsa	(is) futility

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

Strong's References

• H227 — אָז (ʼâz, awz): a demonstrative adverb; at that time or place; also as a conjunction, therefore; beginning, for, from, hitherto, now, of old, once, since, then, at which time, yet.
• H559 — אָמַר (ʼâmar, aw-mar'): a primitive root; to say (used with great latitude); answer, appoint, avouch, bid, boast self, call, certify, challenge, charge, [phrase] (at the, give) command(-ment), commune, consider, declare, demand, [idiom] desire, determine, [idiom] expressly, [idiom] indeed, [idiom] intend, name, [idiom] plainly, promise, publish, report, require, say, speak (against, of), [idiom] still, [idiom] suppose, talk, tell, term, [idiom] that is, [idiom] think, use (speech), utter, [idiom] verily, [idiom] yet.
• H1571 — גַּם (gam, gam): by contraction from an unused root meaning to gather; properly, assemblage; used only adverbially also, even, yea, though; often repeated as correl. both...and; again, alike, also, (so much) as (soon), both (so)...and, but, either...or, even, for all, (in) likewise (manner), moreover, nay...neither, one, then(-refore), though, what, with, yea.
• H1696 — דָבַר (dâbar, daw-bar'): a primitive root; perhaps properly, to arrange; but used figuratively (of words), to speak; rarely (in a destructive sense) to subdue; answer, appoint, bid, command, commune, declare, destroy, give, name, promise, pronounce, rehearse, say, speak, be spokesman, subdue, talk, teach, tell, think, use (entreaties), utter, [idiom] well, [idiom] work.
• H1892 — הֶבֶל (hebel, heh'bel): or (rarely in the abs.) הֲבֵל; from הָבַל; emptiness or vanity; figuratively, something transitory and unsatisfactory; often used as an adverb; [idiom] altogether, vain, vanity.
• H2449 — חָכַם (châkam, khaw-kam'): a primitive root,; to be wise (in mind, word or act); [idiom] exceeding, teach wisdom, be (make self, shew self) wise, deal (never so) wisely, make wiser.
• H3148 — יוֹתֵר (yôwthêr, yo-thare'): active participle of יָתַר; properly, redundant; hence, over and above, as adjective, noun, adverb or conjunction; better, more(-over), over, profit.
• H3684 — כְּסִיל (kᵉçîyl, kes-eel'): from כָּסַל; properly, fat, i.e. (figuratively) stupid or silly; fool(-ish).
• H3820 — לֵב (lêb, labe): a form of לֵבָב; the heart; also used (figuratively) very widely for the feelings, the will and even the intellect; likewise for the centre of anything; [phrase] care for, comfortably, consent, [idiom] considered, courag(-eous), friend(-ly), ((broken-), (hard-), (merry-), (stiff-), (stout-), double) heart(-ed), [idiom] heed, [idiom] I, kindly, midst, mind(-ed), [idiom] regard(-ed), [idiom] themselves, [idiom] unawares, understanding, [idiom] well, willingly, wisdom.
• H4745 — מִקְרֶה (miqreh, mik-reh'): from קָרָה; something met with, i.e. an accident or fortune; something befallen, befalleth, chance, event, hap(-peneth).
• H7136 — קָרָה (qârâh, kaw-raw'): a primitive root; to light upon (chiefly by accident); causatively, to bring about; specifically, to impose timbers (for roof or floor); appoint, lay (make) beams, befall, bring, come (to pass unto), floor, (hap) was, happen (unto), meet, send good speed.

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

• H589 — אֲנִי (ʼănîy, an-ee'): lemma אֲנַי second vowel, corrected to אֲנִי; contracted from אָנֹכִי; I; I, (as for) me, mine, myself, we, [idiom] which, [idiom] who.
• H2088 — זֶה (zeh, zeh): a primitive word; the masculine demonstrative pronoun, this or that; he, [idiom] hence, [idiom] here, it(-self), [idiom] now, [idiom] of him, the one...the other, [idiom] than the other, ([idiom] out of) the (self) same, such (a one) that, these, this (hath, man), on this side...on that side, [idiom] thus, very, which. Compare זֹאת, זֹה, זוֹ, זוּ.
• 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.

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