NASB Lexicon
KJV Lexicon Yea I hatedsane' (saw-nay') to hate (personally) -- enemy, foe, (be) hate(-ful, -r), odious, utterly. all my labour `amal (aw-mawl') toil, i.e. wearing effort; hence, worry, wheth. of body or mind which I had taken `amel (aw-male') toiling; concretely, a laborer; figuratively, sorrowful -- that laboureth, that is a misery, had taken (labour), wicked, workman. under the sun shemesh (sheh'-mesh) the sun; by implication, the east; figuratively, a ray, i.e. (arch.) a notched battlement -- + east side(-ward), sun (rising), + west(-ward), window. because I should leave yanach (yaw-nakh') to deposit; by implication, to allow to stay it unto the man 'adam (aw-dawm') ruddy i.e. a human being (an individual or the species, mankind, etc.) -- another, + hypocrite, + common sort, low, man (mean, of low degree), person. that shall be after 'achar (akh-ar') the hind part; generally used as an adverb or conjunction, after (in various senses) me Parallel Verses New American Standard Bible Thus I hated all the fruit of my labor for which I had labored under the sun, for I must leave it to the man who will come after me. King James Bible Yea, I hated all my labour which I had taken under the sun: because I should leave it unto the man that shall be after me. Holman Christian Standard Bible I hated all my work that I labored at under the sun because I must leave it to the man who comes after me. International Standard Version Then I despised everything I had worked for on earth, that is, the things that I will leave to the person who will succeed me. NET Bible So I loathed all the fruit of my effort, for which I worked so hard on earth, because I must leave it behind in the hands of my successor. GOD'S WORD® Translation I came to hate everything for which I had worked so hard under the sun, because I will have to leave it to the person who replaces me. King James 2000 Bible Yea, I hated all my labor in which I had toiled under the sun: because I must leave it unto the man that shall be after me. Links Ecclesiastes 2:18Ecclesiastes 2:18 NIV Ecclesiastes 2:18 NLT Ecclesiastes 2:18 ESV Ecclesiastes 2:18 NASB Ecclesiastes 2:18 KJV |
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