longing, striving Aramaic equivalent: re.ut (רְעוּ "pleasure" H7470)
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H7469 — רְעוּת
re.ut · longing · Hebrew/Aramaic
7 tagged verse occurrences
Ecclesiastes 1:14 · וּרְע֥וּתI have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and, behold, all [is] vanity and vexation of spirit.Ecclesiastes 2:11 · וּרְע֣וּתThen I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labour that I had laboured to do: and, behold, all [was] vanity and vexation of spirit, and [there was] no profit under the sun.Ecclesiastes 2:17 · וּרְע֥וּתTherefore I hated life; because the work that is wrought under the sun [is] grievous unto me: for all [is] vanity and vexation of spirit.Ecclesiastes 2:26 · וּרְע֥וּתFor [God] giveth to a man that [is] good in his sight wisdom, and knowledge, and joy: but to the sinner he giveth travail, to gather and to heap up, that he may give to [him that is] good before God. This also [is] vanity and vexation of spirit.Ecclesiastes 4:4 · וּרְע֥וּתAgain, I considered all travail, and every right work, that for this a man is envied of his neighbour. This [is] also vanity and vexation of spirit.Ecclesiastes 4:6 · וּרְע֥וּתBetter [is] an handful [with] quietness, than both the hands full [with] travail and vexation of spirit.Ecclesiastes 6:9 · וּרְע֥וּתBetter [is] the sight of the eyes than the wandering of the desire: this [is] also vanity and vexation of spirit.