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Ecclesiastes 2:15
🇮🇱 BIBLICAL HEBREW

📖 King James Version

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.

🔤 Interlinear Analysis — Hebrew (BDB)

# Hebrew Transliteration Strong's Morphology Translation Definition
1 וְ/אָמַ֨רְתִּֽי אָמַר H559 HC/Vqp1cs אָמַר a primitive root; to say (used with great latitude): answer, appoint, avouch, bid, boast self, call, certify, challenge, charge, + (at the, give) command(-ment), commune, consider, declare, demand, X desire, determine, X expressly, X indeed, X intend, name, X plainly, promise, publish, report, require, say, speak (against, of), X still, X suppose, talk, tell, term, X that is, X think, use (speech), utter, X verily, X yet.
2 אֲנִ֜י אָ֫נִי H589 HPp1cs אָ֫נִי contracted from אָנֹכִי; I: I, (as for) me, mine, myself, we, X which, X who.
3 בְּ/לִבִּ֗/י לֵב H3820 HR/Ncmsc/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 כְּ/מִקְרֵ֤ה מִקְרֶה H4745 HR/Ncmsc מִקְרֶה from קָרָה; something met with, i.e. an accident or fortune: something befallen, befalleth, chance, event, hap(-peneth).
5 הַ/כְּסִיל֙ כְּסִיל H3684 HTd/Aamsa כְּסִיל from כָּסַל; properly, fat, i.e. (figuratively) stupid or silly: fool(-ish).
6 גַּם גַּם H1571 HTa גַּם 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.
7 אֲנִ֣י אָ֫נִי H589 HPp1cs אָ֫נִי contracted from אָנֹכִי; I: I, (as for) me, mine, myself, we, X which, X who.
8 יִקְרֵ֔/נִי קָרָה H7136 HVqi3ms/Sp1cs קָרָה 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.
9 וְ/לָ֧/מָּה מָה H4100 HC/R/Ti מָה or mah; or ma; or ma; also meh; 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.
10 חָכַ֛מְתִּי חָכַם H2449 HVqp1cs חָכַם a primitive root, to be wise (in mind, word or act): X exceeding, teach wisdom, be (make self, shew self) wise, deal (never so) wisely, make wiser.
11 אֲנִ֖י אָ֫נִי H589 HPp1cs אָ֫נִי contracted from אָנֹכִי; I: I, (as for) me, mine, myself, we, X which, X who.
12 אָ֣ז אָז H227 HD אָז 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.
13 יוֹתֵ֑ר יוֹתֵר H3148 HNcmsa יוֹתֵר active participle of יָתַר; properly, redundant; hence, over and above, as adjective, noun, adverb or conjunction (as follows): better, more(-over), over, profit.
14 וְ/דִבַּ֣רְתִּי דָּבַר H1696 HC/Vpp1cs דָּבַר 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, X well, X work.
15 בְ/לִבִּ֔/י לֵב H3820 HR/Ncmsc/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.
16 שֶׁ/גַּם גַּם H1571 HTr/D גַּם 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.
17 זֶ֖ה זֶה H2088 HPdxms זֶה a primitive word; the masculine demonstrative pronoun, this or that: he, X hence, X here, it(-self), X now, X of him, the one...the other, X than the other, (X out of) the (self) same, such (a one) that, these, this (hath, man), on this side...on that side, X thus, very, which. Compare זֹאת, זוֹ, זוֹ, זוּ.
18 הָֽבֶל הָ֫בֶל H1892 HNcmsa הָ֫בֶל or (rarely in the abs.) habel; from הָבַל; emptiness or vanity; figuratively, something transitory and unsatisfactory; often used as an adverb: X altogether, vain, vanity.