Ecclesiastes 2:8
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 2:12
decided <06437> [I turned.]
[even that which hath already been done. or, in those things which have been already done.]
Ecclesiastes 2:18
loathed <08130> [I hated.]
worked <06001> [taken. Heb. laboured. I should.]
Ecclesiastes 2:24
better <02896> [nothing.]
better .................. perceived <07200 02896 05315> [make his soul enjoy good. or, delight his senses. that it.]
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 3:21-22
knows <03045> [knoweth.]
human ... ascends <01121 05927 03381> [of man that goeth upwards. Heb. of the sons of man that is ascending.]
better <02896> [nothing.]
show <0935> [who.]
Ecclesiastes 6:10
foreordained <07121> [which.]
foreknown <03045> [and it.]
useless <03201> [neither.]
Ecclesiastes 7:2
better <02896> [better.]
destiny <05490> [that.]
living <02416> [living.]
Ecclesiastes 7:28--8:1
I <05315> [yet.]
one <0259> [one.]
found I have found only one upright ........ have ... found one upright woman among <04672 0802> [but.]
Solomon, instead of seeking one rational, virtuous woman, had collected an immense multitude, of various countries and religions, for magnificence and indulgence; among whom, as might have been expected, he had not found one who was thoroughly faithful, upright, and pious. He here uses the language of a penitent, warning others of the errors into which he had been led; and not that of a wasphish satirist, lashing indiscriminately one half of the human species.
God <0430> [God.]
sought <01245> [they.]
The descendants of Adam have sought out an immense number of inventions, in order to find happiness in the world, without God, which have only proved so many variations of impiety and iniquity.
wise person <02450> [as the]
knows <03045> [who knoweth.]
person's <0120> [a man's.]
harsh <05797> [and the.]
harsh <05797> [boldness. Heb. strength.]
Ecclesiastes 8:11
sentence <06599> [sentence.]
encouraged <04390> [fully.]
Ecclesiastes 9:15
one <0120> [yet.]
Ecclesiastes 10:14
fool <05530> [fool.]
babbling <01697 07235> [is full of words. Heb. multiplieth words.]
one <0120> [a man.]
Ecclesiastes 11:8
[if a man.]
rejoice <08055> [rejoice.]
remember <02142> [yet.]
come <0935> [All that.]
Ecclesiastes 12:13
heard everything ...... conclusion <08085 05490 01697> [Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter. or, The end of the matter, even all that hath been heard is. Fear.]
man <0120> [for.]
