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# רַעְיוֹן

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H7475

**desire** — used 3 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

desire [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7475/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

**The whole BDB entry:** n. \[m.\] id.;—cstr., רַעְיוֹן רוּחַ Ec 1:17, הֶבֶל וְר׳ רוּחַ 4:16 (cf. foreg.), בְּכָל־עֲמָלוֹ וּבְר׳ לִבּוֹ 2:22.

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

## In the verses

[Ecclesiastes 1:17](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/ECC.1.17/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/ECC.1.17/#tree)

וָאֶתְּנָ֤ה לִבִּי֙ לָדַ֣עַת חָכְמָ֔ה וְדַ֥עַת הוֹלֵל֖וֹת וְשִׂכְל֑וּת יָדַ֕עְתִּי שֶׁגַּם־זֶ֥ה ה֖וּא רַעְי֥וֹן רֽוּחַ׃

*Word for word:* and I gave heart my to know wisdom and to.know madness(es) and folly I.knew (cmp) also this it \[is\].a.striving of.wind

*JPS 1917:* And I applied my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly — I perceived that this also was a striving after wind.

[Ecclesiastes 2:22](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/ECC.2.22/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/ECC.2.22/#tree)

כִּ֠י מֶֽה־הֹוֶ֤ה לָֽאָדָם֙ בְּכָל־עֲמָל֔וֹ וּבְרַעְי֖וֹן לִבּו֑שֶׁה֥וּא עָמֵ֖ל תַּ֥חַת הַשָּֽׁמֶשׁ׃

*Word for word:* (dm) what? \[is\].becoming to the person in all toil his and in the.striving his.heart his which he \[was\].toiling under the sun

*JPS 1917:* For what hath a man of all his labour, and of the striving of his heart, wherein he laboureth under the sun?

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7475/): 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).