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Ecclesiastes 7:16
🇮🇱 BIBLICAL HEBREW

📖 King James Version

Be not righteous over much; neither make thyself over wise: why shouldest thou destroy thyself ?

🔤 Interlinear Analysis — Hebrew (BDB)

# Hebrew Transliteration Strong's Morphology Translation Definition
1 אַל אַל H408 HTn אַל a negative particle (akin to לֹא); not (the qualified negation, used as a deprecative); once (Job 24:25) as a noun, nothing: nay, neither, + never, no, nor, not, nothing (worth), rather than.
2 תְּהִ֤י הָיָה H1961 HVqj2ms הָיָה a primitive root (compare הָוָה); to exist, i.e. be or become, come to pass (always emphatic, and not a mere copula or auxiliary): beacon, X altogether, be(-come), accomplished, committed, like), break, cause, come (to pass), do, faint, fall, + follow, happen, X have, last, pertain, quit (one-)self, require, X use.
3 צַדִּיק֙ צַדִּיק H6662 HAamsa צַדִּיק from צָדַק; just: just, lawful, righteous (man).
4 הַרְבֵּ֔ה רָבָה H7235 HVha רָבָה a primitive root; to increase (in whatever respect): (bring in) abundance (X -antly), + archer (by mistake for rabab), be in authority, bring up, X continue, enlarge, excel, exceeding(-ly), be full of, (be, make) great(-er, -ly, X -ness), grow up, heap, increase, be long, (be, give, have, make, use) many (a time), (any, be, give, give the, have) more (in number), (ask, be, be so, gather, over, take, yield) much (greater, more), (make to) multiply, nourish, plenty(-eous), X process (of time), sore, store, thoroughly, very.
5 וְ/אַל אַל H408 HC/Tn אַל a negative particle (akin to לֹא); not (the qualified negation, used as a deprecative); once (Job 24:25) as a noun, nothing: nay, neither, + never, no, nor, not, nothing (worth), rather than.
6 תִּתְחַכַּ֖ם חָכַם H2449 HVtj2ms 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.
7 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.
8 לָ֖/מָּה מָה H4100 HR/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.
9 תִּשּׁוֹמֵֽם שָׁמֵם H8074 HVri2ms שָׁמֵם a primitive root; to stun (or intransitively, grow numb), i.e. devastate or (figuratively) stupefy (both usually in a passive sense): make amazed, be astonied, (be an) astonish(-ment), (be, bring into, unto, lay, lie, make) desolate(-ion, places), be destitute, destroy (self), (lay, lie, make) waste, wonder.