Ecclesiastes 3:7

Bishops' Bible (1568)

A tyme to cut in peeces, and a tyme to sowe together: A tyme to kepe scilence, and a tyme to speake.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

עֵ֤ת לִקְר֙וֹעַ֙ וְעֵ֣ת לִתְפּ֔וֹר עֵ֥ת לַחֲשׁ֖וֹת וְעֵ֥ת לְדַבֵּֽר׃

Transliteration

ʿēt to-liqrôaʿ wə-ʿēt to-liṯpôr, ʿēt to-laḥăšôṯ wə-ʿēt to-ləḏabbēr

Grammar Details

• *ʿēt*: noun, feminine singular construct - time of
• *li*: preposition prefix - to/for
• *qrôaʿ*: verb, qal infinitive construct - to tear/rend
• *wə*: conjunction - and
• *liṯpôr*: verb, qal infinitive construct - to sew
• *laḥăšôṯ*: verb, qal infinitive construct - to be silent
• *ləḏabbēr*: verb, piel infinitive construct - to speak

Word Meanings

• *qrôaʿ*: to tear/rend/tear apart
• *ṯpôr*: to sew/mend
• *ḥăšôṯ*: to be silent/quiet/still
• *ḏabbēr*: to speak/talk/declare

Referenced Verses

• Amos 5:13 : 13 Therfore the wise shall kepe scilence in that time: for it is an euyll time.
• Gen 37:29 : 29 Then Ruben came agayne vnto the pit, and beholde, Ioseph was not in the pit: then he rent his clothes,
• Gen 37:34 : 34 And Iacob rent his clothes, & put sackcloth about his loynes, and mourned for his sonne a long season.
• Gen 44:18 : 18 Then Iuda went vnto him, and said: Oh my lorde, let thy seruaunt I pray thee speake a worde in my lordes eares, and be not inflamed with wrath agaynst thy seruaunt, for thou art euen as Pharao.
• Gen 44:34 : 34 For howe can I go vp to my father, if the ladde be not with me? vnlesse I woulde see the wretchednesse that shall come on my father.
• 1 Sam 19:4-5 : 4 And Ionathan spake good of Dauid vnto Saul his father, and sayde vnto him: Let not the king sinne against his seruaunt, against Dauid: for he hath not sinned against thee, and his workes haue ben to theewarde very good. 5 For he dyd put his life in his hande, and slue the Philistine, and the Lorde brought to passe a great health for all Israel: Thou sawest it, and thou reioycedst: Wherfore then wilt thou sinne against innocent blood, and slay Dauid without a cause?
• 1 Sam 25:24-44 : 24 And fell at his feete, and sayde: Let this iniquitie be counted myne my lord, and let thyne handmaide I praye thee speake in thyne audience, & heare the wordes of thy handmayd. 25 Let not my lorde I pray thee regarde this wicked man Nabal: For as his name is, so is he: Nabal is his name, & folly is with him: But I thyne handmayd sawe not the young men of my lorde whom thou sendedst. 26 Now therefore my lorde, as the Lord lyueth, and as thy soule liueth, euen the Lorde that hath withholden thee from comming to shed blood, and saued thee thyne hand: So nowe, I pray God that thyne enemies, & they that intende to do my lorde euyll, may be as Nabal. 27 And now this blessing which thyne handmayd hath brought vnto my lord, let it be geuen vnto the young men that folowe my lorde. 28 I praye thee forgeue the trespasse of thyne handmayd: for the Lorde will make my lord a sure house, because my lorde fighteth the battailes of the Lord, and there could none euill be found in thee in all thy dayes. 29 And yet a man hath rysen to persecute thee, and to seeke thy soule: but the soule of my Lorde shall be bound in the bundel of the lyuyng with the Lord thy God, and the soules of thy enemies shall God cast out, euen as out of the middle of a slyng. 30 And when the Lorde shall haue done to my lord al the good that he hath promysed thee, and shall haue made thee ruler ouer Israel: 31 Then shall it be no griefe vnto thee, nor offence of mynde vnto my lorde, that thou hast not shed blood causelesse, and that my lord hath not auenged him selfe: But when the Lorde shall haue dealt well with my lord, then thinke on thyne handmayde. 32 And Dauid said to Abigail: Blessed be the Lord God of Israel, which sent thee this day to meete me. 33 Blessed is thy saying, and blessed art thou which hast kept me this day from comming to shed blood, & from auengeing my selfe with myne owne hande. 34 For in very deede, as the Lorde God of Israel lyueth, which hath kept me backe from hurting thee: except thou haddest hasted and met me, surely there hadde not ben left vnto Nabal by the dawnyng of the day, any that pysseth against the wall. 35 And so Dauid receaued of her hande that which she had brought him, and sayde vnto her: Go vp in peace to thyne house, beholde I haue heard thy voyce, and haue graunted thy petition. 36 And Abigail came to Nabal, and beholde, he held a feast in his house lyke the feast of a king, and Nabals heart was mery within hym, for he was very drunken: Wherfore she tolde him nothyng neither lesse nor more, vntyll the morowe mornyng. 37 But in the morning when the wine was gone out of Nabal, his wyfe tolde him these wordes, and his heart dyed within him, and he became as a stone. 38 And vpon a ten dayes after, the Lord smote Nabal, that he dyed. 39 And when Dauid heard that Nabal was dead, he sayd: Blessed be the Lord that hath iudged ye cause of my rebuke of the hand of Nabal, & hath kept his seruaunt from euill: For the Lord hath recompenced the wickednes of Nabal vpon his owne head. And Dauid sent to commune with Abigail, to take her to his wyfe. 40 And when the seruauntes of Dauid were come to Abigail to Carmel, they spake vnto her, saying: Dauid sent vs vnto thee, to take thee to his wyfe. 41 And she arose, & bowed her selfe on her face to the earth, and saide: Beholde, let thy handmayd be a seruaunt, to washe the feete of the seruauntes of my lorde. 42 And Abigail hasted, and arose, & gate her vpon an Asse, with fiue damosels of hers that went at her feete, and she went after the messengers of Dauid, & became his wyfe. 43 Dauid also toke Ahinoam of Iezrael, and they were both his wyues. 44 But Saul had geuen Michol his daughter, Dauids wyfe, to Phalti the sonne of Lais, which was of Gallim.
• 2 Sam 1:11 : 11 Then Dauid toke holde on his clothes, and rent them, and so did all the men that were with him.
• 2 Sam 3:31 : 31 And Dauid sayde to Ioab and to all the people that were with him: Rent your clothes, and put on sackcloth, and mourne before Abner. And king Dauid him selfe folowed the beere.
• 1 Kgs 21:27 : 27 And it fortuned, that whe Ahab heard those wordes, he rent his clothes, and put sackcloth about his flesh, and fasted, and lay in sackcloth & wene bare foote.
• 2 Kgs 5:7 : 7 And it fortuned, that when the king of Israel had red the letter, he rent his clothes, and saide: Am I God, that I should slay, and make a lyue? For he doth send to me that I should delyuer a man from his leprosie: Wherefore consider I pray you, & see how he seeketh a quarell against me.
• 2 Kgs 6:30 : 30 And it came to passe, that when the king hearde the wordes of the woman, he rent his clothes, and went vp on the wall, and the people loked, and beholde he had a sackcloth vnder vpon his fleshe.
• Esth 4:13-14 : 13 And Mardocheus bad say againe vnto Esther: Thinke not with thy selfe that thou shalt escape in the kinges house more then all the Iewes. 14 For if thou holdest thy peace at this time, then shall the Iewes haue helpe and deliueraunce out of an other place, and thou and thy fathers house shalbe destroyed: And who knoweth whether thou art come to the kingdome for this causes sake?
• Esth 7:4 : 4 For we are solde I and my people to be destroyed, to be slaine, and to perishe: And would God that we were solde to be bondmen and bondwomen, then would I holde my tongue: although the enemie coulde not recompence the kinges losse.
• Job 2:13 : 13 They sate them downe by him also vpon the grounde seuen dayes & seuen nightes, and none spake a worde vnto him: for they sawe that his greefe was very great.
• Job 32:4-9 : 4 Nowe taried Elihu, till they had ended their comunication with Iob: for why? they were elder then he. 5 So when Elihu sawe that these three men were not able to make Iob aunswere, he was miscontent. 6 Therfore Elihu the sonne of Barachel the Buzite aunswered, and sayde: Considering that I am young, and ye be men of age, I was afrayde, and durst not shewe foorth my mynde. 7 For I thought thus within my selfe: It becommeth old men to speake, and the aged to teache wysdome. 8 Euery man no doubt hath a mynde, but it is the inspiration of the almightie that geueth vnderstanding. 9 Great men are not alway wyse, neither doth euery aged man vnderstande the thing that is lawfull: 10 Therefore I say, heare me, and I wil shewe you also myne vnderstanding. 11 For when I had wayted till ye made an end of your talking, and hearde your wysdome, what argumentes ye made in your communication, 12 Yea when I had diligently pondred what ye sayde, I found not one of you that made any good argument against Iob, that directly could make aunswere vnto his wordes, 13 Lest ye should say: We haue found out wisdome, God shall cast hym downe, and no man. 14 He hath not spoken vnto me, and I wil not aunswere hym as ye haue done. 15 For they were so abashed, that they coulde not make aunswere, nor speake one worde. 16 When I had wayted (for they spake not, but stoode still and aunswered no more:) 17 Then aunswered I in my turne, and I shewed myne opinion. 18 For I am full of matter, and the spirite within me compelleth me. 19 Beholde, my belly is as the wine, whiche hath no vent, lyke the newe bottels that bruste. 20 Therfore will I speake, that I may haue a bent: I will open my lippes, and make aunswere. 21 I will regarde no maner of person, no man will I spare. 22 For if I woulde go about to please men, I knowe not howe soone my maker would take me away.
• Ps 39:2 : 2 I became dumbe through scilence, I helde my peace from speakyng of good wordes: but the more was my sorowe increased.
• Prov 24:11-12 : 11 Deliuer them that are drawen vnto death, and ceasse not to preserue them that are led to be slayne: 12 If thou wylt say, beholde I knewe not of it: doth not he that pondereth the heart consider it? And he that kepeth thy soule, knoweth he it not? Shall not he also recompence euery man according to his workes?
• Prov 31:8-9 : 8 Be thou an aduocate for the dumbe, to speake in the cause of all such as be succourlesse in this transitorie worlde. 9 Open thy mouth, defende the thyng that is lawfull and ryght, and the cause of the poore and helpelesse.
• Isa 36:21 : 21 Unto this Hezekias messengers helde their tongues, and aunswered not one worde: for the kyng had charged them that they should geue him no aunswere.
• Jer 8:14 : 14 Why prolong we the time? Let vs gather our selues together, and go into the strong citie, there shall we be in rest: for the Lorde our God hath put vs to scilence, and geuen vs water mixt with gall to drinke, because we haue sinned against hym.
• Jer 36:24 : 24 Yet no man was abashed therof, nor rent his clothes, neither the kyng hym selfe nor his seruauntes, though they hearde all these wordes.
• Lam 3:28 : 28 He sitteth alone, he holdeth hym styll, because he hath taken the Lordes yoke vpon hym.
• Joel 2:13 : 13 And rent your heartes and not your garmentes, & turne you vnto the Lorde your God, for he is gratious & mercifull, slowe to anger, and of great goodnesse, and he wyll repent him of the euyll.
• Amos 8:3 : 3 And the songues of the temple shalbe howlinges in that day sayth the Lorde God: many dead bodies shalbe in euery place, they shal cast them foorth with scilence.
• Mic 7:5 : 5 Let no man beleeue his friende, nor put his confidence in his brother: kepe the doore of thy mouth from her that lyeth in thy bosome.
• Luke 19:37-40 : 37 And when he was nowe come nye to the going downe of the mount Oliuete, the whole multitude of the disciples began to reioyce, and to prayse God with a loude voyce, for all the miracles that they had seene. 38 Saying: Blessed be the kyng that cometh in the name of the Lorde, peace in heauen, and glory in the hyest. 39 And some of the Pharisees of the companie sayde vnto hym: Maister, rebuke thy disciples. 40 He saide vnto them: I tell you, that if these holde their peace, then shall the stones crye.
• Acts 4:20 : 20 For we cannot but speake that, which we haue seene and hearde.
• Acts 9:39 : 39 Then Peter arose, & came with them, and when he was come, they brought hym into the vpper chamber: And all the wydowes stoode rounde about him weepyng, and shewyng the coates and garmentes which Dorcas made whyle she was with them.