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Ecclesiastes 5:12

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Masoretic Text 1524

H4966 is sweet מתוקה

H8142 The sleep שׁנת

H5647 of a labouring man העבד

H518 whether אם

H4592 little מעט

H518 or ואם

H7235 much הרבה

H398 he eat יאכל

H7647 but the abundance והשׂבע

H6223 of the rich לעשׁיר

H369 will not איננו

H3240 מניח

H3462 לו לישׁון׃

King James Bible (Oxford 1769)

The

H8142 sleep

labouring

H5647 man

H4966 sweet

H518 whether

H398 eat

H4592 little

H518 or

H7235 much

but

the

H7647 abundance

the

H6223 rich

will

H369 not

H5117 suffer

him

H8142 sleep

Hebrew-English Dictionary

Strongs: H3462

Hebrew: יָשֵׁן

Transliteration: yâshên

Pronunciation: yaw-shane'

Part of Speech: Verb

Bible Usage: old ({store}) remain {long} (make to) sleep.

Definition:

BDB Strongs

properly to be slack or {languid} that {is} (by implication) sleep (figuratively to die); also to grow {old} stale or inveterate

1. to sleep, be asleep

a. (Qal) to sleep, go to sleep, be asleep

b. (Niphal)

1. to remain a long time, be stored up

2. to be festering (of leprosy)

c. (Piel) to cause to sleep, entice to sleep

The Brown-Driver-Briggs
Hebrew-English Lexicon (BDB) 1906

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance
by James Strong (S.T.D.) (LL.D.) 1890.