Ecclesiastes 1:8 BSB

Original language & word study

15 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
כָּל־	kol-	all	H3605 →
הַדְּבָרִ֣ים	ha.de.va.Rim	<the> things	H1697 →
יְגֵעִ֔ים	ye.ge.'Im	[are] wearisome	H3023 →
לֹא־	lo'-	not	H3808 →
יוּכַ֥ל	yu.Khal	he is able	H3201 →
אִ֖ישׁ	'ish	anyone	H376 →
לְדַבֵּ֑ר	le.da.Ber	to speak [them]	H1696 →
לֹא־	lo'-	not	H3808 →
תִשְׂבַּ֥ע	tis.Ba'	it is satisfied	H7646 →
עַ֙יִן֙	'a.yin	an eye	H5869 →
לִרְא֔וֹת	lir.'ot	by seeing	H7200 →
וְלֹא־	ve.lo'-	and not	H3808 →
תִמָּלֵ֥א	ti.ma.Le'	it is filled	H4390 →
אֹ֖זֶן	'O.zen	an ear	H241 →
מִשְּׁמֹֽעַ׃	mi.she.Mo.a'	from hearing	H8085 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

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Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Matthew 11:28
Come to Me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.
leads to
- Matthew 11:29
  Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me; for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.
- John 7:37
  On the last and greatest day of the feast, Jesus stood up and called out in a loud voice, “If anyone is thirsty, let him come to Me and drink.
- John 6:37
  Everyone the Father gives Me will come to Me, and the one who comes to Me I will never drive away.
- Galatians 5:1
  It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not be encumbered once more by a yoke of slavery.
- Isaiah 55:1–3
  “Come, all you who are thirsty, come to the waters; and you without money, come, buy, and eat! Come, buy wine and milk without money and without cost!
Through
Proverbs 27:20
Sheol and Abaddon are never satisfied; so the eyes of man are never satisfied.
leads to
- 1 John 2:16
  For all that is in the world—the desires of the flesh, the desires of the eyes, and the pride of life—is not from the Father but from the world.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Proverbs 30:15–16
  The leech has two daughters: Give and Give. There are three things that are never satisfied, four that never say, ‘Enough!’:
- Ecclesiastes 6:7
  All a man’s labor is for his mouth, yet his appetite is never satisfied.

The gold bar shows how strongly the cross-reference sources tie the two verses together: a long bar means many compiled references make the connection, a short one means few.

Proverbs 27:20Sheol and Abaddon are never satisfied; so the eyes of man are never satisfied.Matthew 11:28Come to Me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.Job 5:7Yet man is born to trouble as surely as sparks fly upward.Ecclesiastes 4:8There is a man all alone, without even a son or brother. And though there is no end to his labor, his eyes are still not content with his wealth: “For whom do I toil and bereave my soul of enjoyment?” This too is futile—a miserable task.Ecclesiastes 2:11Yet when I considered all the works that my hands had accomplished and what I had toiled to achieve, I found everything to be futile, a pursuit of the wind; there was nothing to be gained under the sun.Ecclesiastes 4:1–4Again I looked, and I considered all the oppression taking place under the sun. I saw the tears of the oppressed, and they had no comforter; the power lay in the hands of their oppressors, and there was no comforter.Matthew 5:6Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be filled.Ecclesiastes 2:26To the man who is pleasing in His sight, He gives wisdom and knowledge and joy, but to the sinner He assigns the task of gathering and accumulating that which he will hand over to one who pleases God. This too is futile and a pursuit of the wind.Ecclesiastes 5:10–11He who loves money is never satisfied by money, and he who loves wealth is never satisfied by income. This too is futile.Proverbs 30:15–16The leech has two daughters: Give and Give. There are three things that are never satisfied, four that never say, ‘Enough!’:Ecclesiastes 7:24–26What exists is out of reach and very deep. Who can fathom it?Psalms 63:5My soul is satisfied as with the richest of foods; with joyful lips my mouth will praise You.Revelation 7:16–17‘Never again will they hunger, and never will they thirst; nor will the sun beat down upon them, nor any scorching heat.’Romans 8:22–23We know that the whole creation has been groaning together in the pains of childbirth until the present time.

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