Ecclesiastes 2:16 BSB

Original language & word study

17 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
כִּי֩	ki	for	H3588 →
אֵ֨ין	'ein	there not	H369 →
זִכְר֧וֹן	zikh.Ron	[is] remembrance	H2146 →
לֶחָכָ֛ם	le.cha.Kham	of the wise man	H2450 →
עִֽם־	'im-	with	H5973 →
הַכְּסִ֖יל	ha.ke.Sil	the fool	H3684 →
לְעוֹלָ֑ם	le.'o.Lam	for a long time	H5769 →
בְּשֶׁכְּבָ֞ר	be.she.ke.Var	in that already	H3528 →
הַיָּמִ֤ים	hai.ya.Mim	the days	H3117 →
הַבָּאִים֙	ha.ba.'Im	<the> coming	H935 →
הַכֹּ֣ל	ha.Kol	<the> everything	H3605 →
נִשְׁכָּ֔ח	nish.Kach	it has been forgotten	H7911 →
וְאֵ֛יךְ	ve.'Eikh	and how!	H349 →
יָמ֥וּת	ya.Mut	he will die	H4191 →
הֶחָכָ֖ם	he.cha.Kham	the wise [person]	H2450 →
עִֽם־	'im-	with	H5973 →
הַכְּסִֽיל׃	ha.ke.Sil	the fool	H3684 →

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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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
Malachi 3:16
At that time those who feared the LORD spoke with one another, and the LORD listened and heard them. So a scroll of remembrance was written before Him regarding those who feared the LORD…
leads 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…
- Psalms 56:8
  You have taken account of my wanderings. Put my tears in Your bottle— are they not in Your book?
- Malachi 4:2
  “But for you who fear My name, the sun of righteousness will rise with healing in its wings, and you will go out and leap like calves from the stall.
- Revelation 15:4
  Who will not fear You, O Lord, and glorify Your name? For You alone are holy. All nations will come and worship before You, for Your righteous acts have been revealed.”
- Isaiah 26:3
  You will keep in perfect peace the steadfast of mind, because he trusts in You.
Through
Ecclesiastes 9:5
For the living know that they will die, but the dead know nothing. They have no further reward, because the memory of them is forgotten.
leads to
- Isaiah 26:14
  The dead will not live; the departed spirits will not rise. Therefore You have punished and destroyed them; You have wiped out all memory of them.
- Ecclesiastes 1:11
  There is no remembrance of those who came before, and those yet to come will not be remembered by those who follow after.
- Psalms 6:5
  For there is no mention of You in death; who can praise You from Sheol?

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.

Ecclesiastes 1:11There is no remembrance of those who came before, and those yet to come will not be remembered by those who follow after.Ecclesiastes 9:5For the living know that they will die, but the dead know nothing. They have no further reward, because the memory of them is forgotten.Ecclesiastes 8:10Then too, I saw the burial of the wicked who used to go in and out of the holy place, and they were praised in the city where they had done so. This too is futile.Psalms 73:4They have no struggle in their death; their bodies are well-fed.Exodus 1:8Then a new king, who did not know Joseph, came to power in Egypt.Malachi 3:16At that time those who feared the LORD spoke with one another, and the LORD listened and heard them. So a scroll of remembrance was written before Him regarding those who feared the LORD and honored His name.Psalms 88:12Will Your wonders be known in the darkness, or Your righteousness in the land of oblivion?Hebrews 9:27Just as man is appointed to die once, and after that to face judgment,2 Samuel 3:33And the king sang this lament for Abner: “Should Abner die the death of a fool?Ecclesiastes 2:14The wise man has eyes in his head, but the fool walks in darkness. Yet I also came to realize that one fate overcomes them both.Psalms 103:16when the wind passes over, it vanishes, and its place remembers it no more.Ecclesiastes 6:8What advantage, then, has the wise man over the fool? What gain comes to the poor man who knows how to conduct himself before others?Psalms 49:10For it is clear that wise men die, and the foolish and the senseless both perish and leave their wealth to others.Exodus 1:6Now Joseph and all his brothers and all that generation died,Isaiah 14:10They will all respond to you, saying, “You too have become weak, as we are; you have become like us!”Ecclesiastes 2:15So I said to myself, “The fate of the fool will also befall me. What then have I gained by being wise?” And I said to myself that this too is futile.Ecclesiastes 3:19For the fates of both men and beasts are the same: As one dies, so dies the other—they all have the same breath. Man has no advantage over the animals, since everything is futile.Ecclesiastes 9:15Now a poor wise man was found in the city, and he saved the city by his wisdom. Yet no one remembered that poor man.

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