Ecclesiastes 6:3

Old Testament • 18 words with Strong's data

"If a man beget an hundred children, and live many years, so that the days of his years be many, and his soul be not filled with good, and also that he have no burial; I say, that an untimely birth is better than he."

Word-by-Word Analysis

If a

אִישׁ

ʼîysh

H376

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)

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יָלַד

yâlad

H3205

to bear young; causatively, to beget; medically, to act as midwife; specifically, to show lineage

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an

מֵאָה

mêʼâh

H3967

a hundred; also as a multiplicative and a fraction

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בֵּן

bên

H1121

a son (as a builder of the family name), in the widest sense (of literal and figurative relationship, including grandson, subject, nation, quality or ...

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and

חָיָה

châyâh

H2421

to live, whether literally or figuratively; causatively, to revive

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רַב

rab

H7227

abundant (in quantity, size, age, number, rank, quality)

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שָׁנֶה

shâneh

H8141

a year (as a revolution of time)

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so that the

יוֹם

yôwm

H3117

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...

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of his

שָׁנֶה

shâneh

H8141

a year (as a revolution of time)

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be

רַב

rab

H7227

abundant (in quantity, size, age, number, rank, quality)

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and his

נֶפֶשׁ

nephesh

H5315

properly, a breathing creature, i.e. animal of (abstractly) vitality; used very widely in a literal, accommodated or figurative sense (bodily or menta...

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be not

מָלֵא

mâlêʼ

H4390

to fill or (intransitively) be full of, in a wide application (literally and figuratively)

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with

טוֹב

ṭôwb

H2896

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...

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and also that he have no

קְבוּרָה

qᵉbûwrâh

H6900

sepulture; (concretely) a sepulchre

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I

אָמַר

ʼâmar

H559

to say (used with great latitude)

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that an

נֶפֶל

nephel

H5309

something fallen, i.e. an abortion

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נֶפֶל

nephel

H5309

something fallen, i.e. an abortion

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is

טוֹב

ṭôwb

H2896

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...

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than he

Key Terms in This Verse

untimely H5309

נֶפֶל nephel

something fallen, i.e. an abortion

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burial H6900

קְבוּרָה qᵉbûwrâh

sepulture; (concretely) a sepulchre

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beget H3205

יָלַד yâlad

to bear young; causatively, to beget; medically, to act as midwife; specifically, to show lineage

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birth H5309

נֶפֶל nephel

something fallen, i.e. an abortion

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better H2896

טוֹב ṭôwb

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, goo...

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filled H4390

מָלֵא mâlêʼ

to fill or (intransitively) be full of, in a wide application (literally and figuratively)

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live H2421

חָיָה châyâh

to live, whether literally or figuratively; causatively, to revive

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soul H5315

נֶפֶשׁ nephesh

properly, a breathing creature, i.e. animal of (abstractly) vitality; used very widely in a literal, accommodated or figurative sense (bodily or mental)

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years H8141

שָׁנֶה shâneh

a year (as a revolution of time)

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years H8141

שָׁנֶה shâneh

a year (as a revolution of time)

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Cross References

Job 3:16 cross-reference

Or as an hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants which never saw light.

Ecclesiastes 4:3 cross-reference

Yea, better is he than both they, which hath not yet been, who hath not seen the evil work that is done under the sun.

2 Kings 9:35 cross-reference

And they went to bury her: but they found no more of her than the skull, and the feet, and the palms of her hands.

Jeremiah 22:19 cross-reference

He shall be buried with the burial of an ass, drawn and cast forth beyond the gates of Jerusalem.

Genesis 47:9 cross-reference

And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are an hundred and thirty years: few and evil have the days of the years of my life been, and have not attained unto the days of the...

Matthew 26:24 cross-reference

The Son of man goeth as it is written of him: but woe unto that man by whom the Son of man is betrayed! it had been good for that man if he had not been born.

Jeremiah 36:30 cross-reference

Therefore thus saith the LORD of Jehoiakim king of Judah; He shall have none to sit upon the throne of David: and his dead body shall be cast out in the day to the heat, and in the night to the frost.

Esther 7:10 cross-reference

So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. Then was the king’s wrath pacified.

Genesis 33:5 cross-reference

And he lifted up his eyes, and saw the women and the children; and said, Who are those with thee? And he said, The children which God hath graciously given thy servant.

1 Chronicles 28:5 cross-reference

And of all my sons, (for the LORD hath given me many sons,) he hath chosen Solomon my son to sit upon the throne of the kingdom of the LORD over Israel.

Psalm 58:8 cross-reference

As a snail which melteth, let every one of them pass away: like the untimely birth of a woman, that they may not see the sun.

Proverbs 17:6 cross-reference

Children’s children are the crown of old men; and the glory of children are their fathers.

Jeremiah 8:2 cross-reference

And they shall spread them before the sun, and the moon, and all the host of heaven, whom they have loved, and whom they have served, and after whom they have walked, and whom they have sought, and wh...

2 Kings 10:1 cross-reference

And Ahab had seventy sons in Samaria. And Jehu wrote letters, and sent to Samaria, unto the rulers of Jezreel, to the elders, and to them that brought up Ahab’s children, saying,

2 Chronicles 11:21 cross-reference

And Rehoboam loved Maachah the daughter of Absalom above all his wives and his concubines: (for he took eighteen wives, and threescore concubines; and begat twenty and eight sons, and threescore daugh...

Esther 5:11 cross-reference

And Haman told them of the glory of his riches, and the multitude of his children, and all the things wherein the king had promoted him, and how he had advanced him above the princes and servants of t...

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