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Ecclesiastes 2

Eccl. 2:20 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Therefore I went about
cabab (Hebrew #5437)
to revolve, surround, or border; used in various applications, literally and figuratively (as follows)
KJV usage: bring, cast, fetch, lead, make, walk, X whirl, X round about, be about on every side, apply, avoid, beset (about), besiege, bring again, carry (about), change, cause to come about, X circuit, (fetch a) compass (about, round), drive, environ, X on every side, beset (close, come, compass, go, stand) round about, inclose, remove, return, set, sit down, turn (self) (about, aside, away, back).
Pronounce: saw-bab'
Origin: a primitive root
to cause
ya'ash (Hebrew #2976)
to desist, i.e. (figuratively) to despond
KJV usage: (cause to) despair, one that is desperate, be no hope.
Pronounce: yaw-ash'
Origin: a primitive root
my heart
leb (Hebrew #3820)
the heart; also used (figuratively) very widely for the feelings, the will and even the intellect; likewise for the centre of anything
KJV usage: + care for, comfortably, consent, X considered, courag(-eous), friend(-ly), ((broken-), (hard-), (merry-), (stiff-), (stout-), double) heart((-ed)), X heed, X I, kindly, midst, mind(-ed), X regard((-ed)), X themselves, X unawares, understanding, X well, willingly, wisdom.
Pronounce: labe
Origin: a form of 3824
to despair
ya'ash (Hebrew #2976)
to desist, i.e. (figuratively) to despond
KJV usage: (cause to) despair, one that is desperate, be no hope.
Pronounce: yaw-ash'
Origin: a primitive root
of all the labor
`amal (Hebrew #5999)
toil, i.e. wearing effort; hence, worry, wheth. of body or mind
KJV usage: grievance(-vousness), iniquity, labour, mischief, miserable(-sery), pain(-ful), perverseness, sorrow, toil, travail, trouble, wearisome, wickedness.
Pronounce: aw-mawl'
Origin: from 5998
which I took
`amal (Hebrew #5998)
to toil, i.e. work severely and with irksomeness
KJV usage: (take) labour (in).
Pronounce: aw-mal'
Origin: a primitive root
under the sun
shemesh (Hebrew #8121)
the sun; by implication, the east; figuratively, a ray, i.e. (arch.) a notched battlement
KJV usage: + east side(-ward), sun ((rising)), + west(-ward), window. See also 1053.
Pronounce: sheh'-mesh
Origin: from an unused root meaning to be brilliant
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Cross References

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Gen. 43:14• 14And the Almighty *God give you mercy before the man, that he may send away your other brother and Benjamin! And I, if I be bereaved of children, am bereaved. (Gen. 43:14)
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Job 17:11‑15• 11My days are past, my purposes are broken off, the cherished thoughts of my heart.
 12They change the night into day; the light they imagine near in presence of the darkness.
 13If I wait, Sheol is my house; I spread my bed in the darkness:
 14I cry to the grave, Thou art my father! to the worm, My mother, and my sister!
 15And where is then my hope? yea, my hope, who shall see it? (Job 17:11‑15)
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Psa. 39:6‑7• 6Verily, man walketh in a vain show; verily they are disquieted in vain; he heapeth up riches, and knoweth not who shall gather them.
 7And now, what wait I for, Lord? my hope is in thee. (Psa. 39:6‑7)
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1 Cor. 15:19• 19If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are the most miserable of all men. (1 Cor. 15:19)
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2 Cor. 1:8‑10• 8For we do not wish you to be ignorant, brethren, as to our tribulation which happened to us in Asia, that we were excessively pressed beyond our power, so as to despair even of living.
 9But we ourselves had the sentence of death in ourselves, that we should not have our trust in ourselves, but in God who raises the dead;
 10who has delivered us from so great a death, and does deliver; in whom we confide that he will also yet deliver; (2 Cor. 1:8‑10)
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1 Thess. 3:3‑4• 3that no one might be moved by these afflictions. (For yourselves know that we are set for this;
 4for also, when we were with you, we told you beforehand we are about to be in tribulation, even as also it came to pass, and ye know.) (1 Thess. 3:3‑4)

J. N. Darby Translation

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Then I went about to cause my heart to despair of all the labour wherewith I had laboured under the sun.