Ecclesiastes 2:16
Old Testament • 12 words with Strong's data
"For there is no remembrance of the wise more than of the fool for ever; seeing that which now is in the days to come shall all be forgotten. And how dieth the wise man? as the fool."
Word-by-Word Analysis
זֵכֶר
zêker
a memento, abstractly recollection (rarely if ever); by implication, commemoration
חָכָם
châkâm
wise, (i.e. intelligent, skilful or artful)
כְּסִיל
kᵉçîyl
properly, fat, i.e. (figuratively) stupid or silly
עוֹלָם
ʻôwlâm
properly, concealed, i.e. the vanishing point; generally, time out of mind (past or future), i.e. (practically) eternity; frequentatively, adverbial (...
רָאָה
râʼâh
to see, literally or figuratively (in numerous applications, direct and implied, transitive, intransitive and causative)
יוֹם
yôwm
a day (as the warm hours), whether literal (from sunrise to sunset, or from one sunset to the next), or figurative (a space of time defined by an asso...
בּוֹא
bôwʼ
to go or come (in a wide variety of applications)
שָׁכַח
shâkach
to mislay, i.e. to be oblivious of, from want of memory or attention
מוּת
mûwth
to die (literally or figuratively); causatively, to kill
חָכָם
châkâm
wise, (i.e. intelligent, skilful or artful)
אִישׁ
ʼîysh
a man as an individual or a male person; often used as an adjunct to a more definite term (and in such cases frequently not expressed in translation)
כְּסִיל
kᵉçîyl
properly, fat, i.e. (figuratively) stupid or silly
Key Terms in This Verse
שָׁכַח shâkach
to mislay, i.e. to be oblivious of, from want of memory or attention
Study H7911 →זֵכֶר zêker
a memento, abstractly recollection (rarely if ever); by implication, commemoration
Study H2143 →רָאָה râʼâh
to see, literally or figuratively (in numerous applications, direct and implied, transitive, intransitive and causative)
Study H7200 →עוֹלָם ʻôwlâm
properly, concealed, i.e. the vanishing point; generally, time out of mind (past or future), i.e. (practically) eternity; frequentatively, adverbial (especially with prepositional prefix) always
Study H5769 →יוֹם yôwm
a day (as the warm hours), whether literal (from sunrise to sunset, or from one sunset to the next), or figurative (a space of time defined by an associated term), (often used adverb)
Study H3117 →Cross References
There is no remembrance of former things; neither shall there be any remembrance of things that are to come with those that shall come after.
For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not any thing, neither have they any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten.
And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment:
Now there arose up a new king over Egypt, which knew not Joseph.
Then they that feared the LORD spake often one to another: and the LORD hearkened, and heard it, and a book of remembrance was written before him for them that feared the LORD, and that thought upon h...
Shall thy wonders be known in the dark? and thy righteousness in the land of forgetfulness?
And Joseph died, and all his brethren, and all that generation.
And the king lamented over Abner, and said, Died Abner as a fool dieth?
For what hath the wise more than the fool? what hath the poor, that knoweth to walk before the living?
For he seeth that wise men die, likewise the fool and the brutish person perish, and leave their wealth to others.
For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone; and the place thereof shall know it no more.
The wise man’s eyes are in his head; but the fool walketh in darkness: and I myself perceived also that one event happeneth to them all.
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