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# רְעוּת

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H7469

**longing** — used 7 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

longing [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7469/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

רְעוּת²: n.f. longing, striving [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7469/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. longing, striving;—cstr., הֶבֶל וּר׳ רוּחַ Ec 1:14; 2:11, 17, 26; 4:4; 6:9; עָמָל וּר׳ רוּחַ 4:6.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 7 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 (3 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: striving (7).

## In the verses

[Ecclesiastes 4:6](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/ECC.4.6/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/ECC.4.6/#tree)

ט֕וֹב מְלֹ֥א כַ֖ף נָ֑חַת מִמְּלֹ֥א חָפְנַ֛יִם עָמָ֖ל וּרְע֥וּת רֽוּחַ׃

*Word for word:* \[is\].good \[the\].fullness of.a.palm of.quietness more than.\[the\].fullness of.\[the\].hollow.of.hands toil and striving of.wind

*JPS 1917:* Better is a handful of quietness, than both the hands full of labour and striving after wind.

[Ecclesiastes 6:9](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/ECC.6.9/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/ECC.6.9/#tree)

ט֛וֹב מַרְאֵ֥ה עֵינַ֖יִם מֵֽהֲלָךְ־נָ֑פֶשׁ גַּם־זֶ֥ה הֶ֖בֶל וּרְע֥וּת רֽוּחַ׃

*Word for word:* \[is\].good \[the\].sight of.eyes more than.going desire also this \[is\].futility and striving of.wind

*JPS 1917:* Better is the seeing of the eyes than the wandering of the desire; this also is vanity and a striving after wind.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7469/): 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).