Ecclesiastes 2:7-8
slaves ........ born <05650 01121> [servants.]
born <01121> [and had.]
slaves ........ born .... house <01004 05650 01121> [servants born in my house. Heb. sons of my house. also.]
silver <03701> [silver.]
singers .... singers <07891> [men singers.]
harem .... concubines <07705> [musical instruments, etc. Heb. musical instrument and instruments.]
The difficult words {shiddah weshiddoth} are variously rendered. The LXX. have [oinocoon kai oinochoas,] "male and female cup-bearers," with which the Syriac and Arabic and Parkhurst agree; Aquila, [kulikon kai kulikia,] "a cup and smaller cups;" Jerome, {scyphos et urceolos, (Vulg. {urceos,}) "goblets and pots;" Targum, "warm and cold baths;" others, as M. Desvoeux, "male and female captives;" others, "cooks and confectioners;" others, "a species of musical compositions," derived from Sido, a celebrated Phoenician woman, to whom Sanchoniatho attributes the invention of music; but others, with more probability, "wives and concubines;" and {siddoth} may be in this sense synonymous with the Arabic {seedat, domina, conjux} from {sada,} in {Conj. V. conjugium inivit.} Of the former, Solomon had three hundred, and of the latter, seven hundred; and if they are not mentioned here they are not mentioned at all, which is wholly unaccountable.
Ecclesiastes 3:18
sake <01700> [concerning.]
God <0430> [that God, etc. or, that they might clear God, and see, etc.]
show <07200> [and that.]
Ecclesiastes 3:21
knows <03045> [knoweth.]
human ... ascends <01121 05927 03381> [of man that goeth upwards. Heb. of the sons of man that is ascending.]
Ecclesiastes 8:11
sentence <06599> [sentence.]
encouraged <04390> [fully.]
Ecclesiastes 12:12
<01992> [by these.]
study <03854> [study. or, reading. weariness.]
