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Ecclesiastes 4:6
🇮🇱 BIBLICAL HEBREW

📖 King James Version

Better is an handful with quietness, than both the hands full with travail and vexation of spirit.

🔤 Interlinear Analysis — Hebrew (BDB)

# Hebrew Transliteration Strong's Morphology Translation Definition
1 ט֕וֹב טוֹב H2896 HAamsa טוֹב from טוֹב; good (as an adjective) in the widest sense; used likewise as a noun, both in the masculine and the feminine, the singular and the plural (good, a good or good thing, a good man or woman; the good, goods or good things, good men or women), also as an adverb (well): beautiful, best, better, bountiful, cheerful, at ease, X fair (word), (be in) favour, fine, glad, good (deed, -lier, -liest, -ly, -ness, -s), graciously, joyful, kindly, kindness, liketh (best), loving, merry, X most, pleasant, + pleaseth, pleasure, precious, prosperity, ready, sweet, wealth, welfare, (be) well ((-favoured)).
2 מְלֹ֥א מְלֹא H4393 HNcmsc מְלֹא rarely mlowf; or mlow (Ezekiel 41:8); from מָלֵא; fulness (literally or figuratively): X all along, X all that is (there-)in, fill, (X that whereof...was) full, fulness, (hand-)full, multitude.
3 כַ֖ף כָּף H3709 HNcfsc כָּף from כָּפַף; the hollow hand or palm (so of the paw of an animal, of the sole, and even of the bowl of a dish or sling, the handle of a bolt, the leaves of a palm-tree); figuratively, power: branch, + foot, hand((-ful), -dle, (-led)), hollow, middle, palm, paw, power, sole, spoon.
4 נָ֑חַת נָ֫חַת H5183 HNcfsa נָ֫חַת from נְחַת; a descent, i.e. imposition, unfavorable (punishment) or favorable (food); also (intransitively; perhaps from נ֫וּחַ), restfulness: lighting down, quiet(-ness), to rest, be set on.
5 מִ/מְּלֹ֥א מְלֹא H4393 HR/Ncmsc מְלֹא rarely mlowf; or mlow (Ezekiel 41:8); from מָלֵא; fulness (literally or figuratively): X all along, X all that is (there-)in, fill, (X that whereof...was) full, fulness, (hand-)full, multitude.
6 חָפְנַ֛יִם חָפְנַ֫יִם H2651 HNcmda חָפְנַ֫יִם from an unused root of uncertain signification; a fist (only in the dual): fists, (both) hands, hand(-ful).
7 עָמָ֖ל עָמָל H5999 HNcbsa עָמָל from עָמַל; toil, i.e. wearing effort; hence, worry, wheth. of body or mind: grievance(-vousness), iniquity, labour, mischief, miserable(-sery), pain(-ful), perverseness, sorrow, toil, travail, trouble, wearisome, wickedness.
8 וּ/רְע֥וּת רְעוּת H7469 HC/Ncfsc רְעוּת probably from רָעָה; a feeding upon, i.e. grasping after: vexation.
9 רֽוּחַ ר֫וּחַ H7307 HNcbsa ר֫וּחַ from ר֫וּחַ; wind; by resemblance breath, i.e. a sensible (or even violent) exhalation; figuratively, life, anger, unsubstantiality; by extension, a region of the sky; by resemblance spirit, but only of a rational being (including its expression and functions): air, anger, blast, breath, X cool, courage, mind, X quarter, X side, spirit((-ual)), tempest, X vain, ((whirl-))wind(-y).