Ecclesiastes 3:4 BSB

Original language & word study

8 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
עֵ֤ת	'et	a time	H6256 →
לִבְכּוֹת֙	liv.kOt	to weep	H1058 →
וְעֵ֣ת	ve.'Et	and a time	H6256 →
לִשְׂח֔וֹק	lis.Chok	to laugh	H7832 →
עֵ֥ת	'et	a time	H6256 →
סְפ֖וֹד	se.Fod	to mourn	H5594 →
וְעֵ֥ת	ve.'Et	and a time	H6256 →
רְקֽוֹד׃	re.Kod	to dance	H7540 →

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

H6256veetand a time296×

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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
Psalms 30:5
For His anger is fleeting, but His favor lasts a lifetime. Weeping may stay the night, but joy comes in the morning.
leads to
- Matthew 5:4
  Blessed are those who mourn, for they will be comforted.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Isaiah 54:7–8
  “For a brief moment I forsook you, but with great compassion I will bring you back.
- 2 Corinthians 4:17
  For our light and momentary affliction is producing for us an eternal weight of glory that is far beyond comparison.
- Psalms 126:5–6
  Those who sow in tears will reap with shouts of joy.
- John 16:20–22
  Truly, truly, I tell you, you will weep and wail while the world rejoices. You will grieve, but your grief will turn to joy.
Through
Romans 12:15
Rejoice with those who rejoice; weep with those who weep.
leads to
- 1 Corinthians 12:26
  If one part suffers, every part suffers with it; if one part is honored, every part rejoices with it.
- Hebrews 13:3
  Remember those in prison as if you were bound with them, and those who are mistreated as if you were suffering with them.
- Psalms 35:13–14
  Yet when they were ill, I put on sackcloth; I humbled myself with fasting, but my prayers returned unanswered.

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.

Psalms 30:11You turned my mourning into dancing; You peeled off my sackcloth and clothed me with joy,Psalms 30:5For His anger is fleeting, but His favor lasts a lifetime. Weeping may stay the night, but joy comes in the morning.Romans 12:15Rejoice with those who rejoice; weep with those who weep.James 4:9Grieve, mourn, and weep. Turn your laughter to mourning, and your joy to gloom.Ecclesiastes 7:14In the day of prosperity, be joyful, but in the day of adversity, consider this: God has made one of these along with the other, so that a man cannot discover anything that will come after him.Psalms 126:5–6Those who sow in tears will reap with shouts of joy.John 16:20–22Truly, truly, I tell you, you will weep and wail while the world rejoices. You will grieve, but your grief will turn to joy.Psalms 126:1–2When the LORD restored the captives of Zion, we were like dreamers.Exodus 15:20Then Miriam the prophetess, Aaron’s sister, took a tambourine in her hand, and all the women followed her with tambourines and dancing.Luke 1:58Her neighbors and relatives heard that the Lord had shown her great mercy, and they rejoiced with her.Luke 6:21–25Blessed are you who hunger now, for you will be filled. Blessed are you who weep now, for you will laugh.2 Corinthians 7:10Godly sorrow brings repentance that leads to salvation without regret, but worldly sorrow brings death.2 Samuel 6:16As the ark of the LORD was entering the City of David, Saul’s daughter Michal looked down from a window and saw King David leaping and dancing before the LORD, and she despised him in her heart.Matthew 9:15Jesus replied, “How can the guests of the bridegroom mourn while He is with them? But the time will come when the bridegroom will be taken from them; then they will fast.Matthew 11:17‘We played the flute for you, and you did not dance; we sang a dirge, and you did not mourn.’Luke 1:13–14But the angel said to him, “Do not be afraid, Zechariah, because your prayer has been heard. Your wife Elizabeth will bear you a son, and you are to give him the name John.Isaiah 22:12–13On that day the Lord GOD of Hosts called for weeping and wailing, for shaven heads and the wearing of sackcloth.Genesis 21:6Then Sarah said, “God has made me laugh, and everyone who hears of this will laugh with me.”

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