Ecclesiastes 4:10

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow; but woe to him that is alone when he falleth, and hath not another to lift him up.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

כִּ֣י אִם־יִפֹּ֔לוּ הָאֶחָ֖ד יָקִ֣ים אֶת־חֲבֵר֑וֹ וְאִ֣יל֗וֹ הָֽאֶחָד֙ שֶׁיִפּ֔וֹל וְאֵ֥ין שֵׁנִ֖י לַהֲקִימֽוֹ׃

Transliteration

For if-yippōlû the-ʾeḥād yāqîm ʾet-ḥăḇērô and-ʾîlô the-ʾeḥād that-yippôl and-ʾên šēnî to-hăqîmô

Grammar Details

• *yippōlû*: Qal imperfect, 3rd person masculine plural - they fall
• *ʾeḥād*: number, masculine singular - one (person)
• *yāqîm*: Hiphil imperfect, 3rd person masculine singular - he will raise up
• *ḥăḇērô*: noun, masculine singular + 3rd person masculine singular suffix - his companion
• *ʾîlô*: interjection + preposition + 3rd person masculine singular suffix - woe to him
• *yippôl*: Qal imperfect, 3rd person masculine singular - he falls
• *ʾên*: particle of negation - there is not
• *šēnî*: ordinal number, masculine singular - second (person)
• *hăqîmô*: Hiphil infinitive construct + 3rd person masculine singular suffix - to raise him

Word Meanings

• *yippōlû*: they fall/they stumble
• *yāqîm*: will lift up/will help up/will raise
• *ḥăḇērô*: his companion/his friend/his partner
• *ʾîlô*: woe to him/alas for him
• *šēnî*: second (person)/another/companion

Referenced Verses

• 1 Thess 5:11 : 11 Wherefore exhort one another, and build each other up, even as also ye do.
• Gal 6:1 : 1 Brethren, even if {G2532} a man be overtaken in any trespass, ye who are spiritual, restore such a one in a spirit of gentleness; looking to thyself, lest thou also be tempted.
• 1 Thess 4:18 : 18 Wherefore comfort one another with these words.
• Gen 4:8 : 8 And Cain told Abel his brother. And it came to pass, when they were in the field, that Cain rose up against Abel his brother, and slew him.
• Exod 32:2-4 : 2 And Aaron said unto them, Break off the golden rings, which are in the ears of your wives, of your sons, and of your daughters, and bring them unto me. 3 And all the people brake off the golden rings which were in their ears, and brought them unto Aaron. 4 And he received it at their hand, and fashioned it with a graving tool, and made it a molten calf: and they said, These are thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.
• Exod 32:21 : 21 And Moses said unto Aaron, What did this people unto thee, that thou hast brought a great sin upon them?
• Deut 9:19-20 : 19 For I was afraid of the anger and hot displeasure, wherewith Jehovah was wroth against you to destroy you. But Jehovah hearkened unto me that time also. 20 And Jehovah was very angry with Aaron to destroy him: and I prayed for Aaron also at the same time.
• 1 Sam 23:16 : 16 And Jonathan, Saul's son, arose, and went to David into the wood, and strengthened his hand in God.
• 2 Sam 11:27 : 27 And when the mourning was past, David sent and took her home to his house, and she became his wife, and bare him a son. But the thing that David had done displeased Jehovah.
• 2 Sam 12:7-9 : 7 And Nathan said to David, Thou art the man. Thus saith Jehovah, the God of Israel, I anointed thee king over Israel, and I delivered thee out of the hand of Saul; 8 and I gave thee thy master's house, and thy master's wives into thy bosom, and gave thee the house of Israel and of Judah; and if that had been too little, I would have added unto thee such and such things. 9 Wherefore hast thou despised the word of Jehovah, to do that which is evil in his sight? thou hast smitten Uriah the Hittite with the sword, and hast taken his wife to be thy wife, and hast slain him with the sword of the children of Ammon. 10 Now therefore the sword shall never depart from thy house, because thou hast despised me, and hast taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be thy wife. 11 Thus saith Jehovah, Behold, I will raise up evil against thee out of thine own house; and I will take thy wives before thine eyes, and give them unto thy neighbor, and he shall lie with thy wives in the sight of this sun. 12 For thou didst it secretly: but I will do this thing before all Israel, and before the sun. 13 And David said unto Nathan, I have sinned against Jehovah. And Nathan said unto David, Jehovah also hath put away thy sin; thou shalt not die. 14 Howbeit, because by this deed thou hast given great occasion to the enemies of Jehovah to blaspheme, the child also that is born unto thee shall surely die.
• 2 Sam 14:6 : 6 And thy handmaid had two sons, and they two strove together in the field, and there was none to part them, but the one smote the other, and killed him.
• Job 4:3-4 : 3 Behold, thou hast instructed many, And thou hast strengthened the weak hands. 4 Thy words have upholden him that was falling, And thou hast made firm the feeble knees.
• Isa 35:3-4 : 3 Strengthen ye the weak hands, and confirm the feeble knees. 4 Say to them that are of a fearful heart, Be strong, fear not: behold, your God will come [with] vengeance, [with] the recompense of God; he will come and save you.
• Luke 22:31-32 : 31 {G1161} {G2962} {G2036} Simon, Simon, behold, Satan asked to have you, that he might sift you as wheat: 32 but I made supplication for thee, that thy faith fail not; and do thou, when once thou hast turned again, establish thy brethren.
• Gal 2:11-14 : 11 But when Cephas came to Antioch, I resisted him to the face, because he stood condemned. 12 For before that certain came from James, he ate with the Gentiles; but when they came, he drew back and separated himself, fearing them that were of the circumcision. 13 And the rest of the Jews dissembled likewise with him; insomuch that even Barnabas was carried away with their dissimulation. 14 But when I saw that they walked not uprightly according to the truth of the gospel, I said unto Cephas before [them] all, If thou, being a Jew, livest as do the Gentiles, and not as do the Jews, how compellest thou the Gentiles to live as do the Jews?