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Ecclesiastes 2

Eccl. 2:25 KJV (With Strong’s)

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For who can eat
'akal (Hebrew #398)
to eat (literally or figuratively)
KJV usage: X at all, burn up, consume, devour(-er, up), dine, eat(-er, up), feed (with), food, X freely, X in...wise(-deed, plenty), (lay) meat, X quite.
Pronounce: aw-kal'
Origin: a primitive root
, or who else can hasten
chuwsh (Hebrew #2363)
to hurry; figuratively, to be eager with excitement or enjoyment
KJV usage: (make) haste(-n), ready.
Pronounce: koosh
Origin: a primitive root
hereunto, more
chuwts (Hebrew #2351)
(both forms feminine in the plural) from an unused root meaning to sever; properly, separate by a wall, i.e. outside, outdoors
KJV usage: abroad, field, forth, highway, more, out(-side, -ward), street, without.
Pronounce: khoots
Origin: or (shortened) chuts {khoots}
than I?

Cross References

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who can.
Eccl. 2:1‑12• 1I said in mine heart, Go to now, I will prove thee with mirth;{HR}Therefore enjoy pleasure: and, behold, this also [was] vanity.
 2I said of laughter, [It is] mad: and of mirth, What doeth it?
 3I searched in mine heart how to cheer my flesh with wine,{HR}Mine heart yet guiding me with wisdom,{HR}And how to lay hold on folly,{HR}Till I might see what [it was] good for the sons of men{HR}That they should do under the heaven all the days of their life.
 4I made me great works; I builded me houses;{HR}I planted me vineyards;
 5I made me gardens and parks,{HR}And I planted trees in them of all [kinds of] fruit:
 6I made me pools of water,{HR}To water therefrom the forest where trees were reared;
 7I bought men-servants and maidens,{HR}And had servants born in my house;{HR}Also I had great possessions of herds and flocks,{HR}Above all that were before me in Jerusalem.
 8I gathered me also silver and gold,{HR}And the peculiar treasure of kings and of the provinces:{HR}I gat me men singers and women singers,{HR}And the delights of the sons of men, concubines very many.
 9So I was great, and increased{HR}More than all that were before me in Jerusalem:{HR}Also my wisdom remained with me.
 10And whatsoever mine eyes desired I kept not from them:{HR}I withheld not my heart from any joy,{HR}For my heart rejoiced because of my labour.
 11Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought,{HR}And on the labour that I had laboured to do:{HR}And, behold, all [was] vanity and a striving after wind,{HR}And there was no profit under the sun.
 12And I turned myself to behold wisdom, and madness and folly:{HR}For what [can do] the man that cometh after the king?{HR}That which hath been already done. (Eccl. 2:1‑12)
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1 Kings 4:21‑24• 21And Solomon ruled over all kingdoms from the river to the land of the Philistines, and as far as the border of Egypt: they brought presents, and served Solomon all the days of his life.
 22And Solomon's provision for one day was thirty measures of fine flour, and sixty measures of meal,
 23ten fatted oxen, and twenty oxen out of the pastures, and a hundred sheep, besides harts, and gazelles, and fallow-deer, and fatted fowl.
 24For he had dominion over all on this side the river, from Tiphsah as far as Gazah, over all the kings on this side the river; and he had peace on all sides round about. (1 Kings 4:21‑24)

J. N. Darby Translation

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For who can eat, or who be eagerf, more than I?

JND Translation Notes

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Lit. "hasten."

W. Kelly Translation

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For who can eat, or who can have enjoyment, more than I?