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Ecclesiastes 7:16

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Masoretic Text 1524

H408 not אל

H1961 Be תהי

H6662 righteous צדיק

H7235 over much הרבה

H408 neither ואל

H2449 over wise תתחכם

H3148 יותר

H4100 why למה

H8074 make thyself תשׁומם׃

King James Bible (Oxford 1769)

H8074 thyself

destroy

thou

shouldest

H4100 why

H2449 wise

over

H8074 thyself

make

H408 neither

H7235 much

over

H6662 righteous

H408 not

H1961 Be

Hebrew-English Dictionary

Strongs: H408

Hebrew: אַל

Transliteration: ʼal

Pronunciation: al

Bible Usage: {nay} {neither} + {never} {no} {nor} {not} nothing {[worth]} rather than.

Definition:

not (the qualified {negation} used as a deprecative); once () as a {noun} nothing

1. not, no, nor, neither, nothing (as wish or preference)

a. do not, let not (with a verb)

b. let there not be (with a verb understood)

c. not, no (with substantive)

d. nothing (as substantive)

The Brown-Driver-Briggs
Hebrew-English Lexicon (BDB) 1906