longing, striving Aramaic equivalent: ra.yon (רַעְיוֹן "thought" H7476)
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H7475 — רַעְיוֹן
ra.yon · striving · Hebrew/Aramaic
3 tagged verse occurrences
Ecclesiastes 1:17 · רַעְי֥וֹןSo I set my mind to know wisdom and madness and folly; I learned that this, too, is a pursuit of the wind.Ecclesiastes 2:22 · וּבְרַעְי֖וֹןFor what does a man get for all the toil and striving with which he labors under the sun?Ecclesiastes 4:16 · וְרַעְי֥וֹןThere is no limit to all the people who were before them. Yet the successor will not be celebrated by those who come even later. This too is futile and a pursuit of the wind.