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Ecclesiastes 1:5

The sun rises and the sun sets; it hurries back to where it rises.

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ASV

The sun also ariseth, and the sun goeth down, and hasteth to its place where it ariseth.

KJV

The sun also ariseth, and the sun goeth down, and hasteth to his place where he arose.

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Original language & word study

10 tagged words
OriginalTransliterationMeaningWord study
וְזָרַ֥חve.za.Rachand it risesH2224 →
הַשֶּׁ֖מֶשׁha.She.meshthe sunH8121 →
וּבָ֣אu.Va'and it goesH935 →
הַשָּׁ֑מֶשׁha.Sha.meshthe sunH8121 →
וְאֶ֨ל־ve.'El-and toH413 →
מְקוֹמ֔וֹme.ko.Moplace itsH4725 →
שׁוֹאֵ֛ףsho.'Ef[is] pantingH7602 →
זוֹרֵ֥חַֽzo.Re.ach[is] risingH2224 →
ה֖וּאhu'itH1931 →
שָֽׁם׃ShamthereH8033 →

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Psalms 19:6it rises at one end of the heavens and runs its circuit to the other; nothing is deprived of its warmth.Psalms 42:1As the deer pants for streams of water, so my soul longs after You, O God.Psalms 19:4–6their voice has gone out into all the earth, their words to the ends of the world. In the heavens He has pitched a tent for the sun.Habakkuk 3:11Sun and moon stood still in their places at the flash of Your flying arrows, at the brightness of Your shining spear.Psalms 19:5Like a bridegroom emerging from his chamber, like a champion rejoicing to run his course,Joshua 10:13–14So the sun stood still and the moon stopped until the nation took vengeance upon its enemies. Is this not written in the Book of Jashar? “So the sun stopped in the middle of the sky and delayed going down about a full day.”Psalms 89:36–37his offspring shall endure forever, and his throne before Me like the sun,Genesis 8:22As long as the earth endures, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night shall never cease.”Psalms 104:19–23He made the moon to mark the seasons; the sun knows when to set.Jeremiah 33:20“This is what the LORD says: If you can break My covenant with the day and My covenant with the night, so that day and night cease to occupy their appointed time,

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About Ecclesiastes

King Solomon in Old Age — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
King Solomon in Old Age — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
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