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# מֵרוֹץ

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4793

**running** — used 1 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 1 verse word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

running [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4793/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מֵרוֹץ²: running; race [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4793/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] running; race;—abs. Ec 9:11.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: race (1).

## In the verses

[Ecclesiastes 9:11](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/ECC.9.11/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/ECC.9.11/#tree)

שַׁ֜בְתִּי וְרָאֹ֣ה תַֽחַת־הַשֶּׁ֗מֶשׁ כִּ֣י לֹא֩ לַקַּלִּ֨ים הַמֵּר֜וֹץ וְלֹ֧א לַגִּבּוֹרִ֣ים הַמִּלְחָמָ֗ה וְ֠גַם לֹ֣א לַחֲכָמִ֥ים לֶ֙חֶם֙ וְגַ֨ם לֹ֤א לַנְּבֹנִים֙ עֹ֔שֶׁר וְגַ֛ם לֹ֥א לַיֹּדְעִ֖ים חֵ֑ן כִּי־עֵ֥ת וָפֶ֖גַע יִקְרֶ֥ה אֶת־כֻּלָּֽם׃

*Word for word:* I.returned and I.saw under the sun (dm).that not \[belongs\].to the.swift \[ones\] the race and not \[belongs\].to the.mighty \[men\] the battle and also not \[belongs\].to wise \[people\] food and also not \[belongs\].to \[one who\].has.understanding wealth and also not \[belongs\].to \[one who\].has.knowledge favor (dm) time and chance it.happens.to (et) of.them all

*JPS 1917:* I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4793/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).