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Ecclesiastes 2

Eccl. 2:25 KJV (With Strong’s)

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For who can eat
'akal (Hebrew #398)
to eat (literally or figuratively)
KJV usage: X at all, burn up, consume, devour(-er, up), dine, eat(-er, up), feed (with), food, X freely, X in...wise(-deed, plenty), (lay) meat, X quite.
Pronounce: aw-kal'
Origin: a primitive root
, or who else can hasten
chuwsh (Hebrew #2363)
to hurry; figuratively, to be eager with excitement or enjoyment
KJV usage: (make) haste(-n), ready.
Pronounce: koosh
Origin: a primitive root
hereunto, more
chuwts (Hebrew #2351)
(both forms feminine in the plural) from an unused root meaning to sever; properly, separate by a wall, i.e. outside, outdoors
KJV usage: abroad, field, forth, highway, more, out(-side, -ward), street, without.
Pronounce: khoots
Origin: or (shortened) chuts {khoots}
than I?

Cross References

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who can.
Eccl. 2:1‑12• 1I said in my heart, Come now, I will try thee with mirth, therefore enjoy pleasure. But behold, this also is vanity.
 2I said of laughter, Madness! and of mirth, What availeth it?
 3I searched in my heart how to cherish my flesh with wine, while practising my heart with wisdom; and how to lay hold on folly, till I should see what was that good for the children of men which they should do under the heavens all the days of their life.
 4I made me great works; I builded me houses; I planted me vineyards;
 5I made me gardens and parks, and I planted trees in them of every kind of fruit;
 6I made me ponds of water, to water therewith the wood, where the trees are reared.
 7I acquired servants and maidens, and had servants born in my house; also I had great possessions of herds and flocks, above all that had been in Jerusalem before me.
 8I gathered me also silver and gold, and the peculiar treasure of kings and of the provinces; I got me men-singers and women-singers, and the delights of the children of men, a wife and concubines.
 9And I became great, and increased more than all that had been before me in Jerusalem: also my wisdom remained with me.
 10And whatsoever mine eyes desired I kept not from them: I withheld not my heart from any joy; for my heart rejoiced in all my labour, and this was my portion from all my labour.
 11Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labour that it had cost me to do them; and behold, all was vanity and pursuit of the wind, and there was no profit under the sun.
 12And I turned myself to behold wisdom, and madness, and folly; for what shall the man do that cometh after the king?--that which hath already been done. (Eccl. 2:1‑12)
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1 Kings 4:21‑24• 21And Solomon ruled over all kingdoms from the river to the land of the Philistines, and as far as the border of Egypt: they brought presents, and served Solomon all the days of his life.
 22And Solomon's provision for one day was thirty measures of fine flour, and sixty measures of meal,
 23ten fatted oxen, and twenty oxen out of the pastures, and a hundred sheep, besides harts, and gazelles, and fallow-deer, and fatted fowl.
 24For he had dominion over all on this side the river, from Tiphsah as far as Gazah, over all the kings on this side the river; and he had peace on all sides round about. (1 Kings 4:21‑24)

J. N. Darby Translation

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For who can eat, or who be eagerf, more than I?

JND Translation Notes

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Lit. "hasten."