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Ecclesiastes 2:2
🇮🇱 BIBLICAL HEBREW

📖 King James Version

I said of laughter, It is mad: and of mirth, What doeth it?

🔤 Interlinear Analysis — Hebrew (BDB)

# Hebrew Transliteration Strong's Morphology Translation Definition
1 לִ/שְׂח֖וֹק שְׂחוֹק H7814 HR/Ncmsa שְׂחוֹק or schoq; from שָׂחַק; laughter (in merriment or defiance): derision, laughter(-ed to scorn, -ing), mocked, sport.
2 אָמַ֣רְתִּי אָמַר H559 HVqp1cs 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.
3 מְהוֹלָ֑ל הָלַל H1984 HVMsmsa הָלַל a primitive root; to be clear (orig. of sound, but usually of color); to shine; hence, to make a show, to boast; and thus to be (clamorously) foolish; to rave; causatively, to celebrate; also to stultify: (make) boast (self), celebrate, commend, (deal, make), fool(- ish, -ly), glory, give (light), be (make, feign self) mad (against), give in marriage, (sing, be worthy of) praise, rage, renowned, shine.
4 וּ/לְ/שִׂמְחָ֖ה שִׂמְחָה H8057 HC/R/Ncfsa שִׂמְחָה from שָׂמֵ֫חַ; blithesomeness or glee, (religious or festival): X exceeding(-ly), gladness, joy(-fulness), mirth, pleasure, rejoice(-ing).
5 מַה מָה H4100 HTi 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.
6 זֹּ֥ה זוֹ H2090 HPdxfs זוֹ for זֶה; this or that: as well as another, it, this, that, thus and thus.
7 עֹשָֽׂה עָשָׂה H6213 HVqrfsa 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.