Ecclesiastes 12:7 BSB

Original language & word study

11 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וְיָשֹׁ֧ב	ve.ya.Sho	and it will return	H7725 →
הֶעָפָ֛ר	he.'a.Far	the dust	H6083 →
עַל־	'al-	to	H5921 →
הָאָ֖רֶץ	ha.'A.retz	the earth	H776 →
כְּשֶׁהָיָ֑ה	ke.she.ha.Yah	like which it was	H1961 →
וְהָר֣וּחַ	ve.ha.Ru.ach	and the spirit	H7307 →
תָּשׁ֔וּב	ta.Shuv	it will return	H7725 →
אֶל־	'el-	to	H413 →
הָאֱלֹהִ֖ים	ha.'E.lo.Him	<the> God	H430 →
אֲשֶׁ֥ר	'a.Sher	who	H834 →
נְתָנָֽהּ׃	ne.ta.Nah	he gave it	H5414 →

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
Daniel 12:2
And many who sleep in the dust of the earth will awake, some to everlasting life, but others to shame and everlasting contempt.
leads to
- John 5:28–29
  Do not be amazed at this, for the hour is coming when all who are in their graves will hear His voice
- Isaiah 26:19
  Your dead will live; their bodies will rise. Awake and sing, you who dwell in the dust! For your dew is like the dew of the morning, and the earth will bring forth her…
- Matthew 25:46
  And they will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.”
- Ezekiel 37:12
  Therefore prophesy and tell them that this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘O My people, I will open your graves and bring you up from them, and I will bring you back to…
- Revelation 20:12
  And I saw the dead, great and small, standing before the throne. And there were open books, and one of them was the Book of Life. And the dead were judged according to their…
Through
Genesis 3:19
By the sweat of your brow you will eat your bread, until you return to the ground—because out of it were you taken. For dust you are, and to dust you shall return.”
leads to
- Psalms 104:29
  When You hide Your face, they are terrified; when You take away their breath, they die and return to dust.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Genesis 2:7
  Then the LORD God formed man from the dust of the ground and breathed the breath of life into his nostrils, and the man became a living being.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Job 34:15
  all flesh would perish together and mankind would return to the dust.

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.

Hebrews 9:27Just as man is appointed to die once, and after that to face judgment,Daniel 12:2And many who sleep in the dust of the earth will awake, some to everlasting life, but others to shame and everlasting contempt.Ecclesiastes 3:20–21All go to one place; all come from dust, and all return to dust.Psalms 146:4When his spirit departs, he returns to the ground; on that very day his plans perish.Genesis 3:19By the sweat of your brow you will eat your bread, until you return to the ground—because out of it were you taken. For dust you are, and to dust you shall return.”Job 34:14–15If He were to set His heart to it and withdraw His Spirit and breath,Zechariah 12:1This is the burden of the word of the LORD concerning Israel. Thus declares the LORD, who stretches out the heavens and lays the foundation of the earth, who forms the spirit of man within him:Isaiah 57:16For I will not accuse you forever, nor will I always be angry; for then the spirit of man would grow weak before Me, with the breath of those I have made.Job 1:21saying: “Naked I came from my mother’s womb, and naked I will return. The LORD gave, and the LORD has taken away. Blessed be the name of the LORD.”Genesis 2:7Then the LORD God formed man from the dust of the ground and breathed the breath of life into his nostrils, and the man became a living being.Psalms 103:14For He knows our frame; He is mindful that we are dust.Numbers 16:22But Moses and Aaron fell facedown and said, “O God, the God of the spirits of all flesh, when one man sins, will You be angry with the whole congregation?”Job 20:11The youthful vigor that fills his bones will lie down with him in the dust.Ecclesiastes 3:21Who knows if the spirit of man rises upward and the spirit of the animal descends into the earth?Psalms 89:48What man can live and never see death? Can he deliver his soul from the power of Sheol? Selah Numbers 27:16“May the LORD, the God of the spirits of all flesh, appoint a man over the congregation James 2:26As the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without deeds is dead.Psalms 104:29When You hide Your face, they are terrified; when You take away their breath, they die and return to dust.

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