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Ecclesiastes 4:14

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Better [is] a poor and a wise child than an old and foolish king, who will no more be admonished.	For out of prison he cometh to reign; whereas also [he that is] born in his kingdom becometh poor.	I considered all the living which walk under the sun, with the second child that shall stand up in his stead.

Verse Text

KJV with Strong's Numbers

For out of prison^{H631 H1004} he cometh^H3318 to reign^H4427; whereas also he that is born^H3205 in his kingdom^H4438 becometh poor^H7326.

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Original Hebrew

כִּי־מִבֵּית הָסוּרִים יָצָא לִמְלֹךְ כִּי גַּם בְּמַלְכוּתֹו נֹולַד רָשׁ׃

Hebrew	Transliteration	Strong's	Morphology	Gloss
כִּֽי	ki-	H3588	HC	for
מִ/בֵּ֥ית	mi./Beit	H1004	HR/Ncmsc	from/ (the) house of
הָ/סוּרִ֖ים	ha./su.Rim	H631	HTd/Vqsmpa	the/ prisoners
יָצָ֣א	ya.Tza'	H3318	HVqp3ms	he came out
לִ/מְלֹ֑ךְ	li/m.Lokh	H4427	HR/Vqc	to/ become king
כִּ֛י	ki	H3588	HC	for
גַּ֥ם	gam	H1571	HTa	also
בְּ/מַלְכוּת֖/וֹ	be./mal.khu.T/o	H4438	HR/Ncfsc/Sp3ms	in/ own kingdom/ his
נוֹלַ֥ד	no.Lad	H3205	HVNp3ms	he had been born
רָֽשׁ	Rash	H7326	HVqrmsa	a poor (person)

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

Strong's References

• H631 — אָסַר (ʼâçar, aw-sar'): a primitive root; to yoke or hitch; by analogy, to fasten in any sense, to join battle; bind, fast, gird, harness, hold, keep, make ready, order, prepare, prison(-er), put in bonds, set in array, tie.
• H1004 — בַּיִת (bayith, bah'-yith): probably from בָּנָה abbreviated; a house (in the greatest variation of applications, especially family, etc.); court, daughter, door, [phrase] dungeon, family, [phrase] forth of, [idiom] great as would contain, hangings, home(born), (winter) house(-hold), inside(-ward), palace, place, [phrase] prison, [phrase] steward, [phrase] tablet, temple, web, [phrase] within(-out).
• H3205 — יָלַד (yâlad, yaw-lad'): a primitive root; to bear young; causatively, to beget; medically, to act as midwife; specifically, to show lineage; bear, beget, birth(-day), born, (make to) bring forth (children, young), bring up, calve, child, come, be delivered (of a child), time of delivery, gender, hatch, labour, (do the office of a) midwife, declare pedigrees, be the son of, (woman in, woman that) travail(-eth, -ing woman).
• H3318 — יָצָא (yâtsâʼ, yaw-tsaw'): a primitive root; to go (causatively, bring) out, in a great variety of applications, literally and figuratively, direct and proxim.; [idiom] after, appear, [idiom] assuredly, bear out, [idiom] begotten, break out, bring forth (out, up), carry out, come (abroad, out, thereat, without), [phrase] be condemned, depart(-ing, -ure), draw forth, in the end, escape, exact, fail, fall (out), fetch forth (out), get away (forth, hence, out), (able to, cause to, let) go abroad (forth, on, out), going out, grow, have forth (out), issue out, lay (lie) out, lead out, pluck out, proceed, pull out, put away, be risen, [idiom] scarce, send with commandment, shoot forth, spread, spring out, stand out, [idiom] still, [idiom] surely, take forth (out), at any time, [idiom] to (and fro), utter.
• H4427 — מָלַךְ (mâlak, maw-lak'): a primitive root; to reign; inceptively, to ascend the throne; causatively, to induct into royalty; hence (by implication) to take counsel; consult, [idiom] indeed, be (make, set a, set up) king, be (make) queen, (begin to, make to) reign(-ing), rule, [idiom] surely.
• H4438 — מַלְכוּת (malkûwth, mal-kooth'): or מַלְכֻת; or (in plural) מַלְכֻיָּה; from מָלַךְ; a rule; concretely, a dominion; empire, kingdom, realm, reign, royal.
• H7326 — רוּשׁ (rûwsh, roosh): a primitive root; to be destitute; lack, needy, (make self) poor (man).

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

• 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.
• H3588 — כִּי (kîy, kee): a primitive particle (the full form of the prepositional prefix) indicating causal relations of all kinds, antecedent or consequent; (by implication) very widely used as a relative conjunction or adverb (as below); often largely modified by other particles annexed; and, + (forasmuch, inasmuch, where-) as, assured(-ly), + but, certainly, doubtless, + else, even, + except, for, how, (because, in, so, than) that, + nevertheless, now, rightly, seeing, since, surely, then, therefore, + (al-) though, + till, truly, + until, when, whether, while, whom, yea, yet.

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