Ecclesiasteschapter 11
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Ecclesiastes 11— Hebrew word study · with the Hebrew tradition
How to read a word below: the Hebrewword, then how it sounds, then what it means, then its number in Strong’s concordance, a widely used lookup this site follows (H for Hebrew and Aramaic, G for Greek). Square brackets hold a word the English supplies that the Hebrew does not, angle brackets mark the Hebrew’s own grammatical elements that English renders as separate words, and the mark ס or פ is where the Hebrew manuscripts end a paragraph.
Cast Thy Bread Upon the Waters; Sow in the Morning1
Ecclesiastes 11:1· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Rashi on Ecclesiastes 11:1
Cast you your bread upon the waters. Do goodness and kindness to a person about whom your heart tells you that you will never see him again, 1 Do kindness without anticipating reciprocity from the receiver. (Sforno) Or, when giving charity, needy Torah scholars should be given priority.
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Ecclesiastes 11:2· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Ecclesiastes 11:3· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Rashi on Ecclesiastes 11:3
When the clouds are filled with rain. If you have seen clouds full of rain, you know that they will ultimately empty their rains upon the earth. In the place where the benefit grows and is discernible, there it is destined [for the rains] to come to rest.
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Ecclesiastes 11:4· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Ecclesiastes 11:5· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Rashi on Ecclesiastes 11:5
Just as you do not know, etc., nor the nature of that which is hidden in the womb of her that is with child.
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Ecclesiastes 11:6· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Rejoice, Young Man — but Know That God Will Bring Thee Into Judgment7
Ecclesiastes 11:7· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Ecclesiastes 11:8· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Ecclesiastes 11:9· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Ecclesiastes 11:10· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Rashi on Ecclesiastes 11:10
Therefore banish anger. [Banish] anything that causes anger to the Omnipresent.
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Aramaic Targum to Ecclesiastes 11:10
10. And remove anger from your heart that you should not cause evil to your flesh for youth and the days of blackness of hair are transient.
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