רַעְיוֹן
raʻyôwn · H7475 · Hebrew · 3 occurrences
Meanings
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thought, thinking
The unspoken content of one's own thinking and reasoning
ExamplesEcclesiastes 2:22 For what does a person get in all his labor and in his striving with which he labors under the sun?
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to pursue the wind
Literally: striving after wind; hence: action by which humans are actively looking to be engaged in activities that serve no purpose
ExamplesEcclesiastes 1:17 And I applied my mind to know wisdom and to know insanity and foolishness; I realized that this also is striving after wind.
Ecclesiastes 4:16 There is no end to all the people, to all who were before them. Even the ones who will come later will not be happy with him; for this too is futility and striving after wind.
How it’s used In 5 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive
3 occurrences in 2 groups
- רוּחַspirit, wind 2
- לֵבheart, mind 1
Words describing itAdjectives, demonstratives, participles
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- שֶׁמֶשׁsun 1
What is done to itIt is the object
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- יָדַעto know 1
What is said to be itIt is the predicate
2 occurrences in 2 groups
- הוּאhe, she, it 1
- זֶהthis 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- בin/on/with 1
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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Semantic domains 2 entries
- Think002004002013
- This lexeme's genuine tagged occurrences (Ecclesiastes 1:17, "this also is striving after wind"; Ecclesiastes 2:22; Ecclesiastes 4:16) illustrate the noun "striving, vexation," not a thinking or reflective sense; this Think domain code is bundle-shared from a cognate root and carries no tagged occurrence of רַעְיוֹן (raʻyôwn, H7475) independently attesting a thought sense of its own.
- Fail002003003013
- Ecclesiastes 1:17, 2:22, and 4:16 all describe labor and striving as "striving after wind" or futility, directly attesting the sense of fruitless effort.
Word family 14 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H7475. rayon רַעְיוֺן noun [masculine] id.; — construct, רוּחַ רַעְיוֺן Ecc 1:17, וְר…
Topical studies with this word 2 entries
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
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