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Ecclesiastes 3:3

a time to kill and a time to heal, a time to break down and a time to build,

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ASV

a time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up;

KJV

A time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up;

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8 tagged words
OriginalTransliterationMeaningWord study
עֵ֤ת'eta timeH6256 →
לַהֲרוֹג֙la.ha.rOgto killH2026 →
וְעֵ֣תve.'Etand a timeH6256 →
לִרְפּ֔וֹאlir.Po'to healH7495 →
עֵ֥ת'eta timeH6256 →
לִפְר֖וֹץlif.Rotzto break downH6555 →
וְעֵ֥תve.'Etand a timeH6256 →
לִבְנֽוֹת׃liv.Notto buildH1129 →

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Hosea 6:1–2Come, let us return to the LORD. For He has torn us to pieces, but He will heal us; He has wounded us, but He will bind up our wounds.1 Samuel 2:6The LORD brings death and gives life; He brings down to Sheol and raises up.Jeremiah 45:4Thus Jeremiah was to say to Baruch: “This is what the LORD says: Throughout the land I will demolish what I have built and uproot what I have planted.Jeremiah 31:28Just as I watched over them to uproot and tear down, to demolish, destroy, and bring disaster, so I will watch over them to build and to plant,” declares the LORD.Deuteronomy 32:39See now that I am He; there is no God besides Me. I bring death and I give life; I wound and I heal, and there is no one who can deliver from My hand.Isaiah 44:26who confirms the message of His servant and fulfills the counsel of His messengers, who says of Jerusalem, ‘She will be inhabited,’ and of the cities of Judah, ‘They will be rebuilt, and I will restore their ruins,’Isaiah 5:5–6Now I will tell you what I am about to do to My vineyard: I will take away its hedge, and it will be consumed; I will tear down its wall, and it will be trampled.1 Samuel 2:25If a man sins against another man, God can intercede for him; but if a man sins against the LORD, who can intercede for him?” But they would not listen to their father, since the LORD intended to put them to death.Jeremiah 33:6Nevertheless, I will bring to it health and healing, and I will heal its people and reveal to them the abundance of peace and truth.Isaiah 38:5–20“Go and tell Hezekiah that this is what the LORD, the God of your father David, says: ‘I have heard your prayer; I have seen your tears. Behold, I will add fifteen years to your life.Daniel 9:25–27Know and understand this: From the issuance of the decree to restore and rebuild Jerusalem, until the Messiah, the Prince, there will be seven weeks and sixty-two weeks. It will be rebuilt with streets and a trench, but in times of distress.Ezekiel 13:14I will tear down the wall you whitewashed and level it to the ground, so that its foundation is exposed. The city will fall, and you will be destroyed within it. Then you will know that I am the LORD.Numbers 26:6–9the Hezronite clan from Hezron, and the Carmite clan from Carmi.Acts 5:15–16As a result, people brought the sick into the streets and laid them on cots and mats, so that at least Peter’s shadow might fall on some of them as he passed by.Zechariah 1:12Then the angel of the LORD said, “How long, O LORD of Hosts, will You withhold mercy from Jerusalem and the cities of Judah, with which You have been angry these seventy years?”Luke 9:54–56When the disciples James and John saw this, they asked, “Lord, do You want us to call down fire from heaven to consume them?”

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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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