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Ecclesiastes 7

Eccl. 7:4 KJV (With Strong’s)

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The heart
leb (Hebrew #3820)
the heart; also used (figuratively) very widely for the feelings, the will and even the intellect; likewise for the centre of anything
KJV usage: + care for, comfortably, consent, X considered, courag(-eous), friend(-ly), ((broken-), (hard-), (merry-), (stiff-), (stout-), double) heart((-ed)), X heed, X I, kindly, midst, mind(-ed), X regard((-ed)), X themselves, X unawares, understanding, X well, willingly, wisdom.
Pronounce: labe
Origin: a form of 3824
of the wise
chakam (Hebrew #2450)
wise, (i.e. intelligent, skilful or artful)
KJV usage: cunning (man), subtil, ((un-)), wise((hearted), man).
Pronounce: khaw-kawm'
Origin: from 2449
is in the house
bayith (Hebrew #1004)
a house (in the greatest variation of applications, especially family, etc.)
KJV usage: court, daughter, door, + dungeon, family, + forth of, X great as would contain, hangings, home(born), (winter)house(-hold), inside(-ward), palace, place, + prison, + steward, + tablet, temple, web, + within(-out).
Pronounce: bah'-yith
Origin: probably from 1129 abbreviated
of mourning
'ebel (Hebrew #60)
lamentation
KJV usage: mourning.
Pronounce: ay'-bel
Origin: from 56
; but the heart
leb (Hebrew #3820)
the heart; also used (figuratively) very widely for the feelings, the will and even the intellect; likewise for the centre of anything
KJV usage: + care for, comfortably, consent, X considered, courag(-eous), friend(-ly), ((broken-), (hard-), (merry-), (stiff-), (stout-), double) heart((-ed)), X heed, X I, kindly, midst, mind(-ed), X regard((-ed)), X themselves, X unawares, understanding, X well, willingly, wisdom.
Pronounce: labe
Origin: a form of 3824
of fools
kciyl (Hebrew #3684)
properly, fat, i.e. (figuratively) stupid or silly
KJV usage: fool(-ish).
Pronounce: kes-eel'
Origin: from 3688
is in the house
bayith (Hebrew #1004)
a house (in the greatest variation of applications, especially family, etc.)
KJV usage: court, daughter, door, + dungeon, family, + forth of, X great as would contain, hangings, home(born), (winter)house(-hold), inside(-ward), palace, place, + prison, + steward, + tablet, temple, web, + within(-out).
Pronounce: bah'-yith
Origin: probably from 1129 abbreviated
of mirth
simchah (Hebrew #8057)
blithesomeness or glee, (religious or festival)
KJV usage: X exceeding(-ly), gladness, joy(-fulness), mirth, pleasure, rejoice(-ing).
Pronounce: sim-khaw'
Origin: from 8056
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Heart,
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Ministry on This Verse

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heart.
Neh. 2:2‑5• 2And the king said to me, Why is thy face sad, seeing thou art not sick? this is nothing else but sadness of heart. And I was very sore afraid.
 3And I said to the king, Let the king live for ever! Why should not my countenance be sad, when the city, the place of my fathers' sepulchres, lies waste, and its gates are consumed with fire?
 4And the king said to me, For what dost thou make request? So I prayed to the God of the heavens.
 5And I said to the king, If it please the king, and if thy servant have found favour in thy sight, that thou wouldest send me to Judah, to the city of my fathers' sepulchres, that I may build it. (Neh. 2:2‑5)
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Isa. 53:3‑4• 3He is despised and left alone of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief, and like one from whom men hide their faces;--despised, and we esteemed him not.
 4Surely *he* hath borne our griefs and carried our sorrows; and we, we did regard him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted. (Isa. 53:3‑4)
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Matt. 8:14‑16• 14And when Jesus had come to Peter's house, he saw his mother-in-law laid down and in a fever;
 15and he touched her hand, and the fever left her, and she arose and served him.
 16And when the evening was come, they brought to him many possessed by demons, and he cast out the spirits with a word, and healed all that were ill; (Matt. 8:14‑16)
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Mark 5:38‑43• 38And he comes to the house of the ruler of the synagogue, and sees the tumult, and people weeping and wailing greatly.
 39And entering in he says to them, Why do ye make a tumult and weep? the child has not died, but sleeps.
 40And they derided him. But he, having put them all out, takes with him the father of the child, and the mother, and those that were with him, and enters in where the child was lying.
 41And having laid hold of the hand of the child, he says to her, Talitha koumi, which is, interpreted, Damsel, I say to thee, Arise.
 42And immediately the damsel arose and walked, for she was twelve years old. And they were astonished with great astonishment.
 43And he charged them much that no one should know this; and he desired that something should be given her to eat. (Mark 5:38‑43)
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Luke 7:12‑13• 12And as he drew near to the gate of the city, behold, a dead man was carried out, the only son of his mother, and she a widow, and a very considerable crowd of the city was with her.
 13And the Lord, seeing her, was moved with compassion for her, and said to her, Weep not; (Luke 7:12‑13)
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John 11:31‑35• 31The Jews therefore who were with her in the house and consoling her, seeing Mary that she rose up quickly and went out, followed her, saying, She goes to the tomb, that she may weep there.
 32Mary therefore, when she came where Jesus was, seeing him, fell at his feet, saying to him, Lord, if thou hadst been here, my brother had not died.
 33Jesus therefore, when he saw her weeping, and the Jews who came with her weeping, was deeply moved in spirit, and was troubled,
 34and said, Where have ye put him? They say to him, Lord, come and see.
 35Jesus wept. (John 11:31‑35)
the heart.
1 Sam. 25:36• 36And Abigail came to Nabal; and behold, he held a feast in his house, like the feast of a king; and Nabal's heart was merry within him, for he was drunken to excess; so she told him nothing, less or more, until the morning light. (1 Sam. 25:36)
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1 Sam. 30:16• 16And he brought him down, and behold, they were spread over the whole land, eating and drinking, and dancing, because of all the great spoil that they had taken out of the land of the Philistines, and out of the land of Judah. (1 Sam. 30:16)
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2 Sam. 13:28• 28And Absalom commanded his servants, saying, Mark ye now when Amnon's heart is merry with wine, and when I say to you, Smite Amnon; then slay him, fear not: have not I commanded you? be courageous, and be valiant. (2 Sam. 13:28)
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1 Kings 20:16• 16And they went out at noon; and Ben-Hadad drank himself drunk in the tents, he and the kings, the thirty-two kings that helped him. (1 Kings 20:16)
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Isa. 21:4• 4My heart panteth, horror affrighteth me: the night of my pleasure hath he turned into trembling unto me. (Isa. 21:4)
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Jer. 51:39,57• 39When they are heated, I will prepare their drink, and I will make them drunken, that they may exult, and sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, saith Jehovah.
 57And I will make drunk her princes, and her wise men, her governors, and her rulers, and her mighty men; and they shall sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, saith the King, whose name is Jehovah of hosts. (Jer. 51:39,57)
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Dan. 5:1‑4,30• 1Belshazzar the king made a great feast to a thousand of his nobles, and drank wine before the thousand.
 2Belshazzar, while he tasted the wine, commanded to bring the golden and silver vessels that Nebuchadnezzar his father had taken out of the temple which was in Jerusalem; that the king and his nobles, his wives and his concubines, might drink in them.
 3Then they brought the golden vessels that were taken out of the temple of the house of God which was at Jerusalem; and the king and his nobles, his wives and his concubines, drank in them.
 4They drank wine, and praised the gods of gold and of silver, of brass, of iron, of wood, and of stone.
 30In that night was Belshazzar the king of the Chaldeans slain. (Dan. 5:1‑4,30)
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Hos. 7:5• 5In the day of our king, the princes made themselves sick with the heat of wine: he stretched out his hand to scorners. (Hos. 7:5)
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Nah. 1:10• 10Though they be tangled together as thorns, and be as drenched from their drink, they shall be devoured as dry stubble, completely. (Nah. 1:10)
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Mark 6:21‑29• 21And a holiday being come, when Herod, on his birthday, made a supper to his grandees, and to the chiliarchs, and the chief men of Galilee;
 22and the daughter of the same Herodias having come in, and danced, pleased Herod and those that were with him at table; and the king said to the damsel, Ask of me whatsoever thou wilt and I will give it thee.
 23And he swore to her, Whatsoever thou shalt ask me I will give thee, to half of my kingdom.
 24And she went out, and said to her mother, What should I ask? And she said, The head of John the baptist.
 25And immediately going in with haste to the king, she asked saying, I desire that thou give me directly upon a dish the head of John the baptist.
 26And the king, while made very sorry, on account of the oaths and those lying at table with him would not break his word with her.
 27And immediately the king, having sent one of the guard, ordered his head to be brought. And he went out and beheaded him in the prison,
 28and brought his head upon a dish, and gave it to the damsel, and the damsel gave it to her mother.
 29And his disciples having heard it, came and took up his body, and laid it in a tomb. (Mark 6:21‑29)
• But then listen to that authoritative Voice proclaiming, as no “scribe” ever could, “Blessed are they that mourn, for they shall be comforted.” Ah, there is a bright light breaking in on the dark clouds, with no lightning-flash of added storm, but a mild and holy ray―the promise of a day yet to break o’er our sorrow-stricken earth, when there shall be no need for mourning, for death no more shall reign, but be swallowed up in victory. (“Ecclesiastes 7” by F.C. Jennings)
• Tears still are flowing―nor will we rebuke them. God would never blunt those tender sensibilities of the heart that thus speaks the Hand that made it; but He would take from the tears the bitterness of hopelessness, and would throw on them His own blessed Light, ―a new direct word of revelation from Himself―Love and Light as He is―till, like the clouds in the physical world, they shine with a glory that even the cloudless sky knows not. (“Ecclesiastes 7” by F.C. Jennings)

J. N. Darby Translation

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The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning, but the heart of fools in the house of mirth.