Ecclesiastes 3:20 BSB

Original language & word study

13 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
הַכֹּ֥ל	ha.Kol	<the> everything	H3605 →
הוֹלֵ֖ךְ	ho.Lekh	[is] going	H1980 →
אֶל־	'el-	to	H413 →
מָק֣וֹם	ma.Kom	place	H4725 →
אֶחָ֑ד	'e.Chad	one	H259 →
הַכֹּל֙	ha.Kol	<the> everything	H3605 →
הָיָ֣ה	ha.Yah	it was	H1961 →
מִן־	min-	from	H4480 →
הֶֽעָפָ֔ר	he.'a.Far	the dust	H6083 →
וְהַכֹּ֖ל	ve.ha.Kol	and <the> everything	H3605 →
שָׁ֥ב	shav	[is] returning	H7725 →
אֶל־	'el-	to	H413 →
הֶעָפָֽר׃	he.'a.Far	the dust	H6083 →

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

H6083heafarthe dust110×

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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
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
- Ecclesiastes 12:7
  before the dust returns to the ground from which it came and the spirit returns to God who gave it.
  Reached by 3 independent paths from here.
- Job 34:15
  all flesh would perish together and mankind would return to the dust.
- Psalms 104:29
  When You hide Your face, they are terrified; when You take away their breath, they die and return to dust.
Through
Ecclesiastes 12:7
before the dust returns to the ground from which it came and the spirit returns to God who gave it.
leads to
- 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.”
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- 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.
- Ecclesiastes 3:20–21
  All go to one place; all come from dust, and all return to dust.
- Psalms 146:4
  When his spirit departs, he returns to the ground; on that very day his plans perish.
- Job 34:14–15
  If He were to set His heart to it and withdraw His Spirit and breath,

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,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 34:15all flesh would perish together and mankind would return to the dust.Ecclesiastes 12:7before the dust returns to the ground from which it came and the spirit returns to God who gave it.Numbers 27:13After you have seen it, you too will be gathered to your people, as your brother Aaron was;Ecclesiastes 3:21Who knows if the spirit of man rises upward and the spirit of the animal descends into the earth?Psalms 104:29When You hide Your face, they are terrified; when You take away their breath, they die and return to dust.Ecclesiastes 6:6even if he lives a thousand years twice over but fails to enjoy his prosperity. Do not all go to the same place?Job 7:9As a cloud vanishes and is gone, so he who goes down to Sheol does not come back up.Job 10:9–10Please remember that You molded me like clay. Would You now return me to dust?Ecclesiastes 9:10Whatever you find to do with your hands, do it with all your might, for in Sheol, where you are going, there is no work or planning or knowledge or wisdom.Psalms 49:14Like sheep they are destined for Sheol. Death will be their shepherd. The upright will rule them in the morning, and their form will decay in Sheol, far from their lofty abode.Job 17:13If I look for Sheol as my home, if I spread out my bed in darkness,Genesis 25:8And at a ripe old age he breathed his last and died, old and contented, and was gathered to his people.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.Genesis 25:17Ishmael lived a total of 137 years. Then he breathed his last and died, and was gathered to his people.Job 30:24Yet no one stretches out his hand to a ruined man when he cries for help in his distress.

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