Ecclesiastes 3:2

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

a time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted;

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

עֵ֥ת לָלֶ֖דֶת וְעֵ֣ת לָמ֑וּת עֵ֣ת לָטַ֔עַת וְעֵ֖ת לַעֲק֥וֹר נָטֽוּעַ׃

Transliteration

ʿēt to-lāleḏeṯ wə-ʿēt to-lāmûṯ, ʿēt to-lāṭaʿaṯ wə-ʿēt to-laʿăqôr nāṭûaʿ

Grammar Details

• *ʿēt*: noun, feminine singular construct - time of
• *lā*: preposition prefix - to/for
• *leḏeṯ*: verb, qal infinitive construct - to bear/give birth
• *wə*: conjunction - and
• *mûṯ*: verb, qal infinitive construct - to die
• *lāṭaʿaṯ*: verb, qal infinitive construct - to plant
• *laʿăqôr*: verb, qal infinitive construct - to uproot/pluck up
• *nāṭûaʿ*: verb, qal passive participle - [what is] planted

Word Meanings

• *leḏeṯ*: to bear/give birth/be born
• *mûṯ*: to die/death
• *ṭaʿaṯ*: to plant/set
• *ʿăqôr*: to uproot/pluck up/tear out
• *nāṭûaʿ*: planted thing/what is planted

Referenced Verses

• Heb 9:27 : 27 And {G2596} inasmuch as it is appointed unto men once to die, and after this [cometh] judgment;
• Job 14:5 : 5 Seeing his days are determined, The number of his months is with thee, And thou hast appointed his bounds that he cannot pass;
• Acts 7:20 : 20 At which season Moses was born, and was exceeding fair; and he was nourished three months in his father's house.
• Gal 4:4 : 4 but when the fulness of the time came, God sent forth his Son, born of a woman, born under the law,
• Gen 17:21 : 21 But my covenant will I establish with Isaac, whom Sarah shall bear unto thee at this set time in the next year.
• Gen 21:1-2 : 1 And Jehovah visited Sarah as he had said, and Jehovah did unto Sarah as he had spoken. 2 And Sarah conceived, and bare Abraham a son in his old age, at the set time of which God had spoken to him.
• Gen 47:29 : 29 And the time drew near that Israel must die: and he called his son Joseph, and said unto him, If now I have found favor in thy sight, put, I pray thee, thy hand under my thigh, and deal kindly and truly with me: bury me not, I pray thee, in Egypt;
• Num 20:24-28 : 24 Aaron shall be gathered unto his people; for he shall not enter into the land which I have given unto the children of Israel, because ye rebelled against my word at the waters of Meribah. 25 Take Aaron and Eleazar his son, and bring them up unto mount Hor; 26 and strip Aaron of his garments, and put them upon Eleazar his son: and Aaron shall be gathered [unto his people], and shall die there. 27 And Moses did as Jehovah commanded: and they went up into mount Hor in the sight of all the congregation. 28 And Moses stripped Aaron of his garments, and put them upon Eleazar his son; and Aaron died there on the top of the mount: and Moses and Eleazar came down from the mount.
• Num 27:12-14 : 12 And Jehovah said unto Moses, Get thee up into this mountain of Abarim, and behold the land which I have given unto the children of Israel. 13 And when thou hast seen it, thou also shalt be gathered unto thy people, as Aaron thy brother was gathered; 14 because ye rebelled against my word in the wilderness of Zin, in the strife of the congregation, to sanctify me at the waters before their eyes. (These are the waters of Meribah of Kadesh in the wilderness of Zin.)
• Deut 3:23-26 : 23 And I besought Jehovah at that time, saying, 24 O Lord Jehovah, thou hast begun to show thy servant thy greatness, and thy strong hand: for what god is there in heaven or in earth, that can do according to thy works, and according to thy mighty acts? 25 Let me go over, I pray thee, and see the good land that is beyond the Jordan, that goodly mountain, and Lebanon. 26 But Jehovah was wroth with me for your sakes, and hearkened not unto me; and Jehovah said unto me, Let it suffice thee; speak no more unto me of this matter.
• Deut 34:5 : 5 So Moses the servant of Jehovah died there in the land of Moab, according to the word of Jehovah.
• 1 Sam 2:5 : 5 They that were full have hired out themselves for bread; And they that were hungry have ceased [to hunger]: Yea, the barren hath borne seven; And she that hath many children languisheth.
• 1 Kgs 13:2 : 2 And he cried against the altar by the word of Jehovah, and said, O altar, altar, thus saith Jehovah: Behold, a son shall be born unto the house of David, Josiah by name; and upon thee shall he sacrifice the priests of the high places that burn incense upon thee, and men's bones shall they burn upon thee.
• 2 Kgs 4:16 : 16 And he said, At this season, when the time cometh round, thou shalt embrace a son. And she said, Nay, my lord, thou man of God, do not lie unto thy handmaid.
• Job 7:1 : 1 Is there not a warfare to man upon earth? And are not his days like the days of a hireling?
• Job 14:14 : 14 If a man die, shall he live [again]? All the days of my warfare would I wait, Till my release should come.
• Ps 52:5 : 5 God will likewise destroy thee for ever; He will take thee up, and pluck thee out of thy tent, And root thee out of the land of the living. {H5542}
• Ps 113:9 : 9 He maketh the barren woman to keep house, [And to be] a joyful mother of children. Praise ye Jehovah.
• Isa 5:2-5 : 2 and he digged it, and gathered out the stones thereof, and planted it with the choicest vine, and built a tower in the midst of it, and also hewed out a winepress therein: and he looked that it should bring forth grapes, and it brought forth wild grapes. 3 And now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem and men of Judah, judge, I pray you, betwixt me and my vineyard. 4 What could have been done more to my vineyard, that I have not done in it? wherefore, when I looked that it should bring forth grapes, brought it forth wild grapes? 5 And now I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard: I will take away the hedge thereof, and it shall be eaten up; I will break down the wall thereof, and it shall be trodden down:
• Isa 38:1 : 1 In those days was Hezekiah sick unto death. And Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz came to him, and said unto him, Thus saith Jehovah, Set thy house in order; for thou shalt die, and not live.
• Isa 38:5 : 5 Go, and say to Hezekiah, Thus saith Jehovah, the God of David thy father, I have heard thy prayer, I have seen thy tears: behold, I will add unto thy days fifteen years.
• Isa 54:1 : 1 Sing, O barren, thou that didst not bear; break forth into singing, and cry aloud, thou that didst not travail with child: for more are the children of the desolate than the children of the married wife, saith Jehovah.
• Jer 1:10 : 10 see, I have this day set thee over the nations and over the kingdoms, to pluck up and to break down and to destroy and to overthrow, to build and to plant.
• Jer 18:7-9 : 7 At what instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to pluck up and to break down and to destroy it; 8 if that nation, concerning which I have spoken, turn from their evil, I will repent of the evil that I thought to do unto them. 9 And at what instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to build and to plant it; 10 if they do that which is evil in my sight, that they obey not my voice, then I will repent of the good, wherewith I said I would benefit them.
• Jer 45:4 : 4 Thus shalt thou say unto him, Thus saith Jehovah: Behold, that which I have built will I break down, and that which I have planted I will pluck up; and this in the whole land.
• Matt 13:28-29 : 28 And he said unto them, An enemy hath done this. And the servants say unto him, Wilt thou then that we go and gather them up? 29 But he saith, Nay; lest haply while ye gather up the tares, ye root up the wheat with them.
• Matt 13:41 : 41 The Son of man shall send forth his angels, and they shall gather out of his kingdom all things that cause stumbling, and them that do iniquity,
• Matt 15:13 : 13 But he answered and said, Every plant which my heavenly Father planted not, shall be rooted up.
• Luke 1:13 : 13 But the angel said unto him, Fear not, Zacharias: because thy supplication is heard, and thy wife Elisabeth shall bear thee a son, and thou shalt call his name John.
• Luke 1:20 : 20 And behold, thou shalt be silent and not able to speak, until the day that these things shall come to pass, because thou believedst not my words, which shall be fulfilled in their season.
• Luke 1:36 : 36 And behold, Elisabeth thy kinswoman, she also hath conceived a son in her old age; and this is the sixth month with her that was called barren.
• John 7:30 : 30 They sought therefore to take him: and no man laid his hand on him, because his hour was not yet come.
• John 16:21 : 21 A woman when she is in travail hath sorrow, because her hour is come: but when she is delivered of the child, she remembereth no more the anguish, for the joy that a man is born into the world.
• Acts 7:17 : 17 But as the time of the promise drew nigh which God vouchsafed unto Abraham, the people grew and multiplied in Egypt,