Hebrew noun (masculine) · H7469
רְעוּת
reuthreh-ooth'
longing
7 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: rᵉʻûwth
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H7469is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 1 of 39Old Testament books
- 2spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H7469
a feeding upon, i.e. grasping after
The King James renders it: vexation.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
reuth is rendered "longing". It stands 7 times in the Hebrew text, across one book.
- Seven of the uses stand in Ecclesiastes, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Ecclesiastes 1:14I have seen all the things that are done under the sun, and have found them all to be futile, a pursuit of the wind.
- The Greek text spells it two different ways.
The first use
I have seen all the things that are done under the sun, and have found them all to be futile, a pursuit of the wind.
Ecclesiastes 1:14וּרְע֥וּת
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Seven of the word's seven uses are in Ecclesiastes.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- and striving of7
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
Other numbers on this spelling
Strong gave these words the same spelling and different numbers, so the site counts and defines them apart.
All 7, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
2 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- וּרְע֥וּת6
- וּרְע֣וּת1
The grammar of each form
- conjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)7HC/Ncfsc
Ecclesiastes
seven uses
I have seen all the things that are done under the sun, and have found them all to be futile, a pursuit of the wind.
- וּרְע֥וּתureutconjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: and striving of
Yet when I considered all the works that my hands had accomplished and what I had toiled to achieve, I found everything to be futile, a pursuit of the wind; there was nothing to be gained under the sun.
- וּרְע֣וּתureutconjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: and striving of
So I hated life, because the work that is done under the sun was grievous to me. For everything is futile and a pursuit of the wind.
- וּרְע֥וּתureutconjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: and striving of
To the man who is pleasing in His sight, He gives wisdom and knowledge and joy, but to the sinner He assigns the task of gathering and accumulating that which he will hand over to one who pleases God. This too is futile and a pursuit of the wind.
- וּרְע֥וּתureutconjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: and striving of
I saw that all labor and success spring from a man’s envy of his neighbor. This too is futile and a pursuit of the wind.
- וּרְע֥וּתureutconjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: and striving of
Better one handful with tranquility than two handfuls with toil and pursuit of the wind.
- וּרְע֥וּתureutconjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: and striving of
Better what the eye can see than the wandering of desire. This too is futile and a pursuit of the wind.
- וּרְע֥וּתureutconjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: and striving of
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.