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Ecclesiastes 4:1
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📖 King James Version

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.

🔤 Interlinear Analysis — Hebrew (BDB)

# Hebrew Transliteration Strong's Morphology Translation Definition
1 וְ/שַׁ֣בְתִּֽי שׁוּב H7725 HC/Vqp1cs שׁוּב a primitive root; to turn back (hence, away) transitively or intransitively, literally or figuratively (not necessarily with the idea of return to the starting point); generally to retreat; often adverbial, again: ((break, build, circumcise, dig, do anything, do evil, feed, lay down, lie down, lodge, make, rejoice, send, take, weep)) X again, (cause to) answer (+ again), X in any case (wise), X at all, averse, bring (again, back, home again), call (to mind), carry again (back), cease, X certainly, come again (back), X consider, + continually, convert, deliver (again), + deny, draw back, fetch home again, X fro, get (oneself) (back) again, X give (again), go again (back, home), (go) out, hinder, let, (see) more, X needs, be past, X pay, pervert, pull in again, put (again, up again), recall, recompense, recover, refresh, relieve, render (again), requite, rescue, restore, retrieve, (cause to, make to) return, reverse, reward, + say nay, send back, set again, slide back, still, X surely, take back (off), (cause to, make to) turn (again, self again, away, back, back again, backward, from, off), withdraw.
2 אֲנִ֗י אָ֫נִי H589 HPp1cs אָ֫נִי contracted from אָנֹכִי; I: I, (as for) me, mine, myself, we, X which, X who.
3 וָ/אֶרְאֶה֙ רָאָה H7200 HC/Vqw1cs רָאָה a primitive root; to see, literally or figuratively (in numerous applications, direct and implied, transitive, intransitive and causative): advise self, appear, approve, behold, X certainly, consider, discern, (make to) enjoy, have experience, gaze, take heed, X indeed, X joyfully, lo, look (on, one another, one on another, one upon another, out, up, upon), mark, meet, X be near, perceive, present, provide, regard, (have) respect, (fore-, cause to, let) see(-r, -m, one another), shew (self), X sight of others, (e-)spy, stare, X surely, X think, view, visions.
4 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).
5 כָּל כֹּל H3605 HNcmsc 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).
6 הָ֣/עֲשֻׁקִ֔ים עֲשׁוּקִים H6217 HTd/Vqsmpa עֲשׁוּקִים or mashuq; passive participle of עָשַׁק; used in plural masculine as abstractly, tyranny: oppressed(-ion). (Doubtful.)
7 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.
8 נַעֲשִׂ֖ים עָשָׂה H6213 HVNsmpa 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.
9 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.
10 הַ/שָּׁ֑מֶשׁ שָׁ֫מֶשׁ H8121 HTd/Ncbsa שָׁ֫מֶשׁ from an unused root meaning to be brilliant; the sun; by implication, the east; figuratively, a ray, i.e. (arch.) a notched battlement: + east side(-ward), sun ((rising)), + west(-ward), window. See also בֵּית שָׁ֫מֶשׁ.
11 וְ/הִנֵּ֣ה הִנֵּה H2009 HC/Tm הִנֵּה prolongation for הֵן; lo!: behold, lo, see.
12 דִּמְעַ֣ת דִּמְעָה H1832 HNcfsc דִּמְעָה feminine of דֶּ֫מַע; weeping: tears.
13 הָ/עֲשֻׁקִ֗ים עֲשׁוּקִים H6217 HTd/Vqsmpa עֲשׁוּקִים or mashuq; passive participle of עָשַׁק; used in plural masculine as abstractly, tyranny: oppressed(-ion). (Doubtful.)
14 וְ/אֵ֤ין אַ֫יִן H369 HC/Tn אַ֫יִן as if from a primitive root meaning to be nothing or not exist; a non-entity; generally used as a negative particle: else, except, fail, (father-)less, be gone, in(-curable), neither, never, no (where), none, nor, (any, thing), not, nothing, to nought, past, un(-searchable), well-nigh, without. Compare מֵאַ֫יִן.
15 לָ/הֶם֙ HR/Sp3mp
16 מְנַחֵ֔ם נָחַם H5162 HVprmsa נָחַם a primitive root; properly, to sigh, i.e. breathe strongly; by implication, to be sorry, i.e. (in a favorable sense) to pity, console or (reflexively) rue; or (unfavorably) to avenge (oneself): comfort (self), ease (one's self), repent(-er,-ing, self).
17 וּ/מִ/יַּ֤ד יָד H3027 HC/R/Ncbsc יָד a primitive word; a hand (the open one (indicating power, means, direction, etc.), in distinction from כָּף, the closed one); used (as noun, adverb, etc.) in a great variety of applications, both literally and figuratively, both proximate and remote (as follows): (+ be) able, X about, + armholes, at, axletree, because of, beside, border, X bounty, + broad, (broken-)handed, X by, charge, coast, + consecrate, + creditor, custody, debt, dominion, X enough, + fellowship, force, X from, hand(-staves, -y work), X he, himself, X in, labour, + large, ledge, (left-)handed, means, X mine, ministry, near, X of, X order, ordinance, X our, parts, pain, power, X presumptuously, service, side, sore, state, stay, draw with strength, stroke, + swear, terror, X thee, X by them, X themselves, X thine own, X thou, through, X throwing, + thumb, times, X to, X under, X us, X wait on, (way-)side, where, + wide, X with (him, me, you), work, + yield, X yourselves.
18 עֹֽשְׁקֵי/הֶם֙ עָשַׁק H6231 HVqrmpc/Sp3mp עָשַׁק a primitive root (compare עָשַׂק); to press upon, i.e. oppress, defraud, violate, overflow: get deceitfully, deceive, defraud, drink up, (use) oppress((-ion)), -or), do violence (wrong).
19 כֹּ֔חַ כֹּ֫חַ H3581 HNcmsa כֹּ֫חַ or (Dan. 11:6) kowach; from an unused root meaning to be firm; vigor, literally (force, in a good or a bad sense) or figuratively (capacity, means, produce); also (from its hardiness) a large lizard: -ability, able, chameleon, force, fruits, might, power(-ful), strength, substance, wealth.
20 וְ/אֵ֥ין אַ֫יִן H369 HC/Tn אַ֫יִן as if from a primitive root meaning to be nothing or not exist; a non-entity; generally used as a negative particle: else, except, fail, (father-)less, be gone, in(-curable), neither, never, no (where), none, nor, (any, thing), not, nothing, to nought, past, un(-searchable), well-nigh, without. Compare מֵאַ֫יִן.
21 לָ/הֶ֖ם HR/Sp3mp
22 מְנַחֵֽם נָחַם H5162 HVprmsa נָחַם a primitive root; properly, to sigh, i.e. breathe strongly; by implication, to be sorry, i.e. (in a favorable sense) to pity, console or (reflexively) rue; or (unfavorably) to avenge (oneself): comfort (self), ease (one's self), repent(-er,-ing, self).