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 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 7:2
better <02896> [better.]
destiny <05490> [that.]
living <02416> [living.]
Ecclesiastes 7:29
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.
Ecclesiastes 8:11
sentence <06599> [sentence.]
encouraged <04390> [fully.]
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.]
