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Ecclesiastes 12

Eccl. 12:7 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Then shall the dust
`aphar (Hebrew #6083)
dust (as powdered or gray); hence, clay, earth, mud
KJV usage: ashes, dust, earth, ground, morter, powder, rubbish.
Pronounce: aw-fawr'
Origin: from 6080
return
shuwb (Hebrew #7725)
to turn back (hence, away) transitively or intransitively, literally or figuratively (not necessarily with the idea of return to the starting point); generally to retreat; often adverbial, again
KJV usage: ((break, build, circumcise, dig, do anything, do evil, feed, lay down, lie down, lodge, make, rejoice, send, take, weep)) X again, (cause to) answer (+ again), X in any case (wise), X at all, averse, bring (again, back, home again), call (to mind), carry again (back), cease, X certainly, come again (back), X consider, + continually, convert, deliver (again), + deny, draw back, fetch home again, X fro, get (oneself) (back) again, X give (again), go again (back, home), (go) out, hinder, let, (see) more, X needs, be past, X pay, pervert, pull in again, put (again, up again), recall, recompense, recover, refresh, relieve, render (again), requite, rescue, restore, retrieve, (cause to, make to) return, reverse, reward, + say nay, send back, set again, slide back, still, X surely, take back (off), (cause to, make to) turn (again, self again, away, back, back again, backward, from, off), withdraw.
Pronounce: shoob
Origin: a primitive root
b to the earth
'erets (Hebrew #776)
the earth (at large, or partitively a land)
KJV usage: X common, country, earth, field, ground, land, X natins, way, + wilderness, world.
Pronounce: eh'-rets
Origin: from an unused root probably meaning to be firm
as it was: and the spirit
ruwach (Hebrew #7307)
wind; by resemblance breath, i.e. a sensible (or even violent) exhalation; figuratively, life, anger, unsubstantiality; by extension, a region of the sky; by resemblance spirit, but only of a rational being (including its expression and functions)
KJV usage: air, anger, blast, breath, X cool, courage, mind, X quarter, X side, spirit((-ual)), tempest, X vain, ((whirl-))wind(-y).
Pronounce: roo'-akh
Origin: from 7306
shall return
shuwb (Hebrew #7725)
to turn back (hence, away) transitively or intransitively, literally or figuratively (not necessarily with the idea of return to the starting point); generally to retreat; often adverbial, again
KJV usage: ((break, build, circumcise, dig, do anything, do evil, feed, lay down, lie down, lodge, make, rejoice, send, take, weep)) X again, (cause to) answer (+ again), X in any case (wise), X at all, averse, bring (again, back, home again), call (to mind), carry again (back), cease, X certainly, come again (back), X consider, + continually, convert, deliver (again), + deny, draw back, fetch home again, X fro, get (oneself) (back) again, X give (again), go again (back, home), (go) out, hinder, let, (see) more, X needs, be past, X pay, pervert, pull in again, put (again, up again), recall, recompense, recover, refresh, relieve, render (again), requite, rescue, restore, retrieve, (cause to, make to) return, reverse, reward, + say nay, send back, set again, slide back, still, X surely, take back (off), (cause to, make to) turn (again, self again, away, back, back again, backward, from, off), withdraw.
Pronounce: shoob
Origin: a primitive root
unto God
'elohiym (Hebrew #430)
gods in the ordinary sense; but specifically used (in the plural thus, especially with the article) of the supreme God; occasionally applied by way of deference to magistrates; and sometimes as a superlative
KJV usage: angels, X exceeding, God (gods)(-dess, -ly), X (very) great, judges, X mighty.
Pronounce: el-o-heem'
Origin: plural of 433
who gave
nathan (Hebrew #5414)
to give, used with greatest latitude of application (put, make, etc.)
KJV usage: add, apply, appoint, ascribe, assign, X avenge, X be ((healed)), bestow, bring (forth, hither), cast, cause, charge, come, commit, consider, count, + cry, deliver (up), direct, distribute, do, X doubtless, X without fail, fasten, frame, X get, give (forth, over, up), grant, hang (up), X have, X indeed, lay (unto charge, up), (give) leave, lend, let (out), + lie, lift up, make, + O that, occupy, offer, ordain, pay, perform, place, pour, print, X pull , put (forth), recompense, render, requite, restore, send (out), set (forth), shew, shoot forth (up), + sing, + slander, strike, (sub-)mit, suffer, X surely, X take, thrust, trade, turn, utter, + weep, + willingly, + withdraw, + would (to) God, yield.
Pronounce: naw-than'
Origin: a primitive root
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Gen. 3:19• 19in sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread till thy return unto the ground, for out of it wast thou taken. For dust [art] thou, and unto dust shalt thou return. (Gen. 3:19)
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Psa. 146:4• 4His spirit goeth forth, he returneth to his earth:{HR}In that very day his purposes perish. (Psa. 146:4)
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Isa. 57:16• 16For I will not contend forever, neither will I be always wroth; for the spirit should fail before me, and the souls [which] I have made. (Isa. 57:16)

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Cross References

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dust.
Eccl. 3:20• 20All go unto one place;{HR}All are of the dust,{HR}And all turn to dust again. (Eccl. 3:20)
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Gen. 3:19• 19in sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread till thy return unto the ground, for out of it wast thou taken. For dust [art] thou, and unto dust shalt thou return. (Gen. 3:19)
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Gen. 18:27• 27{i}And Abraham answered and said, Behold now, I have ventured to speak unto the Lord; I, who am dust and ashes.{/i} (Gen. 18:27)
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Job 4:19‑20• 19How much more those who dwell in houses of clay,{HR}The foundation of which [is] in the dust,{HR}Which are crushed as though moths.
 20From morning to evening they are destroyed;{HR}Before anyone marketh it they perish forever. (Job 4:19‑20)
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Job 7:21• 21And why dost not thou pardon my transgression,{HR}And put away my iniquity?{HR}For now shall I lie in the dust,{HR}And, if thou seekest after me, I am no more. (Job 7:21)
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Job 20:11• 11His bones were full of youthful vigour,{HR}Which will lie with him in the dust. (Job 20:11)
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Job 34:14‑15• 14If he should set his heart on himself —{HR}Gather to himself his spirit and his breath,
 15All flesh would expire together,{HR}And man return to dust. (Job 34:14‑15)
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Psa. 90:3• 3Thou turnest man to crumbling,{HR}And sayest, Return, sons of men. (Psa. 90:3)
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Psa. 146:4• 4His spirit goeth forth, he returneth to his earth:{HR}In that very day his purposes perish. (Psa. 146:4)
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Dan. 12:2• 2And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake—some to everlasting life and some to shame and everlasting contempt. (Dan. 12:2)
the spirit.
Eccl. 3:21• 21Who knoweth the spirit of man whether it goeth upward,{HR}And the spirit of the beast whether it goeth downward to the earth? (Eccl. 3:21)
God.
Gen. 2:7• 7And Jehovah Elohim formed Man of dust from the ground, and breathed into his nostrils breath of life; and Man became a living soul. (Gen. 2:7)
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Num. 16:22• 22{i}And they fell on their faces, and said, O God, the God of the spirits of all flesh! shall one man sin, and wilt thou be wroth with the whole assembly?{/i} (Num. 16:22)
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Num. 27:16• 16{i}Let Jehovah, the God of the spirits of all flesh, set a man over the assembly,{/i} (Num. 27:16)
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Isa. 57:16• 16For I will not contend forever, neither will I be always wroth; for the spirit should fail before me, and the souls [which] I have made. (Isa. 57:16)
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Jer. 38:16• 16So Zedekiah the king sware secretly unto Jeremiah, saying, As Jehovah liveth, that made us this soul, I will not put thee to death, neither will I give thee into the hand of these men that seek thy life. (Jer. 38:16)
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Zech. 12:1• 1The burden of the word of Jehovah for Israel, saith Jehovah, which stretcheth forth the heavens, and layeth the foundation of the earth, and formeth the spirit of man within him. (Zech. 12:1)
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Heb. 12:9,23• 9Then indeed we had fathers of our flesh as chasteners, and we reverenced them: shall we not much rather be in subjection to the Father of the spirits and live?
 23and to an assembly of firstborns, enrolled in heavens; and to God judge of all; and to spirits of just ones made perfect; (Heb. 12:9,23)

J. N. Darby Translation

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and the dust return to the earth as it was, and the spirite return unto God who gave it.

JND Translation Notes

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See Note, Job 27.3.

W. Kelly Translation

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And the dust return to the earth as it was,{HR}And the spirit return unto God who gave it.