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HebrewH7475Noun (Masculine)

רַעְיוֹן

ra.yon

3Occurrences
H7475Strong's #
Noun (Masculine)Part of Speech

Definition

Quick Definition(Strong's Concordance)

desire

from H7462 (רָעָה) in the sense of H7469 (רְעוּת);

Full Lexicon Entry(Abbott-Smith)
longing, striving Aramaic equivalent: ra.yon (*רַעְיוֹן *"thought" H7476)

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Grammar & Morphology

Part of Speech

Noun (Masculine)

Morphology Code

H:N-M

Full Description

H:N-M

Occurrences

רַעְיוֹן appears 3 times in the Old Testament.

Distribution by Book

Ecclesiastes
3

Key Passages

Ecclesiastes 1:17BSB

So I set my mind to know wisdom and madness and folly; I learned that this, too, is a pursuit of the wind.

Ecclesiastes 2:22BSB

For what does a man get for all the toil and striving with which he labors under the sun?

Ecclesiastes 4:16BSB

There 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.

Lexicon data from STEPBible.org (Tyndale House, Cambridge) under CC BY 4.0 license.