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Ecclesiastes 1:13
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And I gave my heart to seek and search out by wisdom concerning all things that are done under heaven: this sore travail hath God given to the sons of man to be exercised therewith.

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# Hebrew Transliteration Strong's Morphology Translation Definition
1 וְ/נָתַ֣תִּי נָתַן H5414 HC/Vqp1cs נָתַן a primitive root; to give, used with greatest latitude of application (put, make, etc.): add, apply, appoint, ascribe, assign, X avenge, X be ((healed)), bestow, bring (forth, hither), cast, cause, charge, come, commit, consider, count, + cry, deliver (up), direct, distribute, do, X doubtless, X without fail, fasten, frame, X get, give (forth, over, up), grant, hang (up), X have, X indeed, lay (unto charge, up), (give) leave, lend, let (out), + lie, lift up, make, + O that, occupy, offer, ordain, pay, perform, place, pour, print, X pull, put (forth), recompense, render, requite, restore, send (out), set (forth), shew, shoot forth (up), + sing, + slander, strike, (sub-)mit, suffer, X surely, X take, thrust, trade, turn, utter, + weep, + willingly, + withdraw, + would (to) God, yield.
2 אֶת אוֹת H853 HTo אוֹת 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).
3 לִבִּ֗/י לֵב H3820 HNcmsc/Sp1cs לֵב 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: + care for, comfortably, consent, X considered, courag(-eous), friend(-ly), ((broken-), (hard-), (merry-), (stiff-), (stout-), double) heart((-ed)), X heed, X I, kindly, midst, mind(-ed), X regard((-ed)), X themselves, X unawares, understanding, X well, willingly, wisdom.
4 לִ/דְר֤וֹשׁ דָּרַשׁ H1875 HR/Vqc דָּרַשׁ a primitive root; properly, to tread or frequent; usually to follow (for pursuit or search); by implication, to seek or ask; specifically to worship: ask, X at all, care for, X diligently, inquire, make inquisition, (necro-)mancer, question, require, search, seek (for, out), X surely.
5 וְ/לָ/תוּר֙ תּוּר H8446 HC/R/Vqc תּוּר a primitive root; to meander (causatively, guide) about, especially for trade or reconnoitring: chap(-man), sent to descry, be excellent, merchant(-man), search (out), seek, (e-)spy (out).
6 בַּֽ/חָכְמָ֔ה חָכְמָה H2451 HRd/Ncfsa חָכְמָה from חָכַם; wisdom (in a good sense): skilful, wisdom, wisely, wit.
7 עַ֛ל עַל H5921 HR עַל properly, the same as עָל used as a preposition (in the singular or plural often with prefix, or as conjunction with a particle following); above, over, upon, or against (yet always in this last relation with a downward aspect) in a great variety of applications (as follow): above, according to(-ly), after, (as) against, among, and, X as, at, because of, beside (the rest of), between, beyond the time, X both and, by (reason of), X had the charge of, concerning for, in (that), (forth, out) of, (from) (off), (up-)on, over, than, through(-out), to, touching, X with.
8 כָּל כֹּל H3605 HNcmsa כֹּל or (Jer. 33:8) kowl; 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).
9 אֲשֶׁ֥ר אֲשֶׁר H834 HTr אֲשֶׁר 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.: X after, X alike, as (soon as), because, X every, for, + forasmuch, + from whence, + how(-soever), X if, (so) that ((thing) which, wherein), X though, + until, + whatsoever, when, where (+ -as, -in, -of, -on, -soever, -with), which, whilst, + whither(- soever), who(-m, -soever, -se). As it is indeclinable, it is often accompanied by the personal pronoun expletively, used to show the connection.
10 נַעֲשָׂ֖ה עָשָׂה H6213 HVNp3ms עָשָׂה a primitive root; to do or make, in the broadest sense and widest application (as follows): accomplish, advance, appoint, apt, be at, become, bear, bestow, bring forth, bruise, be busy, X certainly, have the charge of, commit, deal (with), deck, + displease, do, (ready) dress(-ed), (put in) execute(-ion), exercise, fashion, + feast, (fight-)ing man, + finish, fit, fly, follow, fulfill, furnish, gather, get, go about, govern, grant, great, + hinder, hold ((a feast)), X indeed, + be industrious, + journey, keep, labour, maintain, make, be meet, observe, be occupied, offer, + officer, pare, bring (come) to pass, perform, pracise, prepare, procure, provide, put, requite, X sacrifice, serve, set, shew, X sin, spend, X surely, take, X thoroughly, trim, X very, + vex, be (warr-)ior, work(-man), yield, use.
11 תַּ֣חַת תָּ֫חַת H8478 HR תָּ֫חַת from the same as תּ֫וֹחַ; the bottom (as depressed); only adverbially, below (often with prepositional prefix underneath), in lieu of, etc.: as, beneath, X flat, in(-stead), (same) place (where...is), room, for...sake, stead of, under, X unto, X when...was mine, whereas, (where-)fore, with.
12 הַ/שָּׁמָ֑יִם שָׁמַ֫יִם H8064 HTd/Ncmpa שָׁמַ֫יִם dual of an unused singular shameh; from an unused root meaning to be lofty; the sky (as aloft; the dual perhaps alluding to the visible arch in which the clouds move, as well as to the higher ether where the celestial bodies revolve): air, X astrologer, heaven(-s).
13 ה֣וּא הוּא H1931 HPp3ms הוּא of which the feminine (beyond the Pentateuch) is hiyw; a primitive word, the third person pronoun singular, he (she or it); only expressed when emphatic or without a verb; also (intensively) self, or (especially with the article) the same; sometimes (as demonstrative) this or that; occasionally (instead of copula) as or are: he, as for her, him(-self), it, the same, she (herself), such, that (...it), these, they, this, those, which (is), who.
14 עִנְיַ֣ן עִנְיָן H6045 HNcmsa עִנְיָן from עָנָה; ado, i.e. (generally) employment or (specifically) an affair: business, travail.
15 רָ֗ע רָע H7451 HAamsa רָע from רָעַע; bad or (as noun) evil (natural or moral): adversity, affliction, bad, calamity, + displease(-ure), distress, evil((- favouredness), man, thing), + exceedingly, X great, grief(-vous), harm, heavy, hurt(-ful), ill (favoured), + mark, mischief(-vous), misery, naught(-ty), noisome, + not please, sad(-ly), sore, sorrow, trouble, vex, wicked(-ly, -ness, one), worse(-st), wretchedness, wrong. (Incl. feminine raaah; as adjective or noun.).
16 נָתַ֧ן נָתַן H5414 HVqp3ms נָתַן a primitive root; to give, used with greatest latitude of application (put, make, etc.): add, apply, appoint, ascribe, assign, X avenge, X be ((healed)), bestow, bring (forth, hither), cast, cause, charge, come, commit, consider, count, + cry, deliver (up), direct, distribute, do, X doubtless, X without fail, fasten, frame, X get, give (forth, over, up), grant, hang (up), X have, X indeed, lay (unto charge, up), (give) leave, lend, let (out), + lie, lift up, make, + O that, occupy, offer, ordain, pay, perform, place, pour, print, X pull, put (forth), recompense, render, requite, restore, send (out), set (forth), shew, shoot forth (up), + sing, + slander, strike, (sub-)mit, suffer, X surely, X take, thrust, trade, turn, utter, + weep, + willingly, + withdraw, + would (to) God, yield.
17 אֱלֹהִ֛ים אֱלֹהִים H430 HNcmpa אֱלֹהִים plural of אֱל֫וֹהַּ; gods in the ordinary sense; but specifically used (in the plural thus, especially with the article) of the supreme God; occasionally applied by way of deference to magistrates; and sometimes as a superlative: angels, X exceeding, God (gods)(-dess, -ly), X (very) great, judges, X mighty.
18 לִ/בְנֵ֥י בֵּן H1121 HR/Ncmpc בֵּן from בָּנָה; a son (as a builder of the family name), in the widest sense (of literal and figurative relationship, including grandson, subject, nation, quality or condition, etc., (like אָב, אָח, etc.)): + afflicted, age, (Ahoh-) (Ammon-) (Hachmon-) (Lev-)ite, (anoint-)ed one, appointed to, (+) arrow, (Assyr-) (Babylon-) (Egypt-) (Grec-)ian, one born, bough, branch, breed, + (young) bullock, + (young) calf, X came up in, child, colt, X common, X corn, daughter, X of first, + firstborn, foal, + very fruitful, + postage, X in, + kid, + lamb, (+) man, meet, + mighty, + nephew, old, (+) people, + rebel, + robber, X servant born, X soldier, son, + spark, + steward, + stranger, X surely, them of, + tumultuous one, + valiant(-est), whelp, worthy, young (one), youth.
19 הָ/אָדָ֖ם אָדָם H120 HTd/Ncmsa אָדָם from אָדַם; ruddy i.e. a human being (an individual or the species, mankind, etc.): X another, + hypocrite, + common sort, X low, man (mean, of low degree), person.
20 לַ/עֲנ֥וֹת עָנָה H6031 HR/Vqc עָנָה a primitive root (possibly rather ident. with עָנָה through the idea of looking down or browbeating); to depress literally or figuratively, transitive or intransitive (in various applications, as follows): abase self, afflict(-ion, self), answer (by mistake for `anah), chasten self, deal hardly with, defile, exercise, force, gentleness, humble (self), hurt, ravish, sing (by mistake for `anah), speak (by mistake for `anah), submit self, weaken, X in any wise.
21 בּֽ/וֹ HR/Sp3ms