Ecclesiastes 7:9

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry; for anger resteth in the bosom of fools.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

אַל־תְּבַהֵל בְּרוּחֲךָ לִכְעוֹס כִּי כַעַס בְּחֵיק כְּסִילִים יָנוּחַ

Transliteration

ʾAl-təḇahēl in-rûḥăḵā liḵʿôs kî ḵaʿas in-ḥêq kəsîlîm yānûaḥ

Grammar Details

• *ʾAl*: negative particle - do not
• *təḇahēl*: Piel imperfect 2nd masculine singular - hasten/be anxious
• *rûḥăḵā*: noun, feminine singular with 2nd masculine singular suffix - your spirit
• *liḵʿôs*: Qal infinitive construct with preposition - to be angry
• *kî*: conjunction - for/because
• *ḵaʿas*: noun, masculine singular - anger
• *ḥêq*: noun, masculine singular construct - bosom of
• *kəsîlîm*: adjective, masculine plural - fools
• *yānûaḥ*: Qal imperfect 3rd masculine singular - rests/settles

Word Meanings

• *təḇahēl*: be hasty/be quick-tempered/be impetuous
• *rûḥăḵā*: your spirit/your temper
• *liḵʿôs*: to be angry/to be provoked
• *ḵaʿas*: anger/vexation/irritation
• *ḥêq*: bosom/lap/inner being
• *yānûaḥ*: rests/dwells/settles

Referenced Verses

• Jas 1:19 : 19 Ye know [this], my beloved brethren. But let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:
• Prov 14:17 : 17 He that is soon angry will deal foolishly; And a man of wicked devices is hated.
• Prov 16:32 : 32 He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty; And he that ruleth his spirit, than he that taketh a city.
• Prov 26:23-26 : 23 Fervent lips and a wicked heart Are [like] an earthen vessel overlaid with silver dross. 24 He that hateth dissembleth with his lips; But he layeth up deceit within him: 25 When he speaketh fair, believe him not; For there are seven abominations in his heart: 26 Though [his] hatred cover itself with guile, His wickedness shall be openly showed before the assembly.
• Jonah 4:9 : 9 And God said to Jonah, Doest thou well to be angry for the gourd? And he said, I do well to be angry, even unto death.
• Mark 6:19 : 19 And Herodias set herself against him, and desired to kill him; and she could not;
• Mark 6:24 : 24 And she went out, and said unto her mother, What shall I ask? And she said, The head of John the Baptizer.
• Eph 4:26-27 : 26 Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath: 27 neither give place to the devil.
• Gen 4:5-6 : 5 but unto Cain and to his offering he had not respect. And Cain was very wroth, and his countenance fell. 6 And Jehovah said unto Cain, Why art thou wroth? and why is thy countenance fallen?
• 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.
• Gen 34:7-8 : 7 And the sons of Jacob came in from the field when they heard it: and the men were grieved, and they were very wroth, because he had wrought folly in Israel in lying with Jacob's daughter; which thing ought not to be done. 8 And Hamor communed with them, saying, The soul of my son Shechem longeth for your daughter: I pray you, give her unto him to wife.
• Gen 34:25-26 : 25 And it came to pass on the third day, when they were sore, that two of the sons of Jacob, Simeon and Levi, Dinah's brethren, took each man his sword, and came upon the city unawares, and slew all the males. 26 And they slew Hamor and Shechem his son with the edge of the sword, and took Dinah out of Shechem's house, and went forth.
• Gen 34:30-31 : 30 And Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, Ye have troubled me, to make me odious to the inhabitants of the land, among the Canaanites and the Perizzites: and, I being few in number, they will gather themselves together against me and smite me; and I shall be destroyed, I and my house. 31 And they said, Should he deal with our sister as with a harlot?
• 1 Sam 25:21-22 : 21 Now David had said, Surely in vain have I kept all that this fellow hath in the wilderness, so that nothing was missed of all that pertained unto him: and he hath returned me evil for good. 22 God do so unto the enemies of David, and more also, if I leave of all that pertain to him by the morning light so much as one {H8366} man-child.
• 2 Sam 13:22 : 22 And Absalom spake unto Amnon neither good nor bad; for Absalom hated Amnon, because he had forced his sister Tamar.
• 2 Sam 13:28 : 28 And Absalom commanded his servants, saying, Mark ye now, when Amnon's heart is merry with wine; and when I say unto you, Smite Amnon, then kill him; fear not; have not I commanded you? be courageous, and be valiant.
• 2 Sam 13:32 : 32 And Jonadab, the son of Shimeah, David's brother, answered and said, Let not my lord suppose that they have killed all the young men the king's sons; for Amnon only is dead; for by the appointment of Absalom this hath been determined from the day that he forced his sister Tamar.
• 2 Sam 19:43 : 43 And the men of Israel answered the men of Judah, and said, We have ten parts in the king, and we have also more [right] in David than ye: why then did ye despise us, that our advice should not be first had in bringing back our king? And the words of the men of Judah were fiercer than the words of the men of Israel.
• Esth 3:5-6 : 5 And when Haman saw that Mordecai bowed not down, nor did him reverence, then was Haman full of wrath. 6 But he thought scorn to lay hands on Mordecai alone; for they had made known to him the people of Mordecai: wherefore Haman sought to destroy all the Jews that were throughout the whole kingdom of Ahasuerus, even the people of Mordecai.