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Ecclesiastes 4:2

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So I returned, and considered all the oppressions that are done under the sun: and behold the tears of [such as were] oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors [there was] power; but they had no comforter.	Wherefore I praised the dead which are already dead more than the living which are yet alive.	Yea, better [is he] than both they, which hath not yet been, who hath not seen the evil work that is done under the sun.

Verse Text

KJV with Strong's Numbers

Wherefore I praised^H7623 the dead^H4191 which are already^H3528 dead^H4191 more than the living^H2416 which are yet^H5728 alive^H2416.

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Original Hebrew

וְשַׁבֵּחַ אֲנִי אֶת־הַמֵּתִים שֶׁכְּבָר מֵתוּ מִן־הַחַיִּים אֲשֶׁר הֵמָּה חַיִּים עֲדֶנָה׃

Hebrew	Transliteration	Strong's	Morphology	Gloss
וְ/שַׁבֵּ֧חַ	ve./sha.Be.ach	H7623	HC/Vpa	and/ I congratulated
אֲנִ֛י	'a.Ni	H589	HPp1cs	I
אֶת	'et-	H853	HTo	(obj.)
הַ/מֵּתִ֖ים	ha./me.Tim	H4191	HTd/Vqrmpa	the/ dead
שֶׁ/כְּבָ֣ר	she./ke.Var	H3528	HTr/D	who/ already
מֵ֑תוּ	Me.tu	H4191	HVqp3cp	they had died
מִן	min-	H4480	HR	more than
הַ֣/חַיִּ֔ים	ha./chai.Yim	H2416	HTd/Aampa	the/ living
אֲשֶׁ֛ר	'a.Sher	H834	HTr	who
הֵ֥מָּה	He.mah	H1992	HPp3mp	they
חַיִּ֖ים	chai.Yim	H2416	HAampa	(were) alive
עֲדֶֽנָ/ה	'a.De.na/h	H5728	HD/Sh	still/ (towards)

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

Strong's References

• H2416 — חַי (chay, khah'-ee): from חָיָה; alive; hence, raw (flesh); fresh (plant, water, year), strong; also (as noun, especially in the feminine singular and masculine plural) life (or living thing), whether literally or figuratively; [phrase] age, alive, appetite, (wild) beast, company, congregation, life(-time), live(-ly), living (creature, thing), maintenance, [phrase] merry, multitude, [phrase] (be) old, quick, raw, running, springing, troop.
• H3528 — כְּבָר (kᵉbâr, keb-awr'): from כָּבַר; properly, extent of time, i.e. a great while; hence, long ago, formerly, hitherto; already, (seeing that which), now.
• H4191 — מוּת (mûwth, mooth): a primitive root; to die (literally or figuratively); causatively, to kill; [idiom] at all, [idiom] crying, (be) dead (body, man, one), (put to, worthy of) death, destroy(-er), (cause to, be like to, must) die, kill, necro(-mancer), [idiom] must needs, slay, [idiom] surely, [idiom] very suddenly, [idiom] in (no) wise.
• H5728 — עֲדֶן (ʻăden, ad-en'): or עֲדֶנָּה; from עַד and הֵן; till now; yet.
• H7623 — שָׁבַח (shâbach, shaw-bakh'): a primitive root; properly, to address in aloud tone, i.e. (specifically) loud; figuratively, to pacify (as if by words); commend, glory, keep in, praise, still, triumph.

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.
• H834 — אֲשֶׁר (ʼăsher, ash-er'): a primitive relative pronoun (of every gender and number); who, which, what, that; also (as an adverb and a conjunction) when, where, how, because, in order that, etc.; [idiom] after, [idiom] alike, as (soon as), because, [idiom] every, for, [phrase] forasmuch, [phrase] from whence, [phrase] how(-soever), [idiom] if, (so) that ((thing) which, wherein), [idiom] though, [phrase] until, [phrase] whatsoever, when, where ([phrase] -as, -in, -of, -on, -soever, -with), which, whilst, [phrase] whither(-soever), who(-m, -soever, -se). As it is indeclinable, it is often accompanied by the personal pronoun expletively, used to show the connection.
• H853 — אֵת (ʼêth, ayth): apparent contracted from אוֹת in the demonstrative sense of entity; properly, self (but generally used to point out more definitely the object of a verb or preposition, even or namely); (as such unrepresented in English).
• H1992 — הֵם (hêm, haym): or (prolonged) הֵמָּה; masculine plural from הֲלַךְ; they (only used when emphatic); it, like, [idiom] (how, so) many (soever, more as) they (be), (the) same, [idiom] so, [idiom] such, their, them, these, they, those, which, who, whom, withal, ye.
• H4480 — מִן (min, min): or מִנִּי; or מִנֵּי; (constructive plural) (Isaiah 30:11); for מֵן; properly, a part of; hence (prepositionally), from or out of in many senses; above, after, among, at, because of, by (reason of), from (among), in, [idiom] neither, [idiom] nor, (out) of, over, since, [idiom] then, through, [idiom] whether, with.

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