Ecclesiastes

Ecclesiastes 2:25

²⁵For apart from Him,^a who can eat and who can find enjoyment?

Footnotes

a 2:25 Some Hebrew manuscripts, LXX, Syriac; most Hebrew manuscripts apart from me or more than I

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English	Hebrew	Sounds like	Grammar	Word study
For	כִּ֣י	kî	Conjunction	H3588 burning, branding
apart from	ח֥וּץ	ḥūṣ	Noun - masculine singular	H2351 the outside
Him	מִמֶּֽנִּי׃	mim·men·nî	Preposition; first person common singular	H4480 out of, from, on account of, off, on the side of, since, above, than, so that not
who	מִ֥י	mî	Interrogative	H4310 who?
can eat	יֹאכַ֛ל	yō·ḵal	Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine singular	H398 eat
and who	וּמִ֥י	ū·mî	Conjunctive waw; Interrogative	H4310 who?
can find enjoyment	יָח֖וּשׁ	yā·ḥūš	Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine singular	H2363 haste, make haste

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