Ecclesiastes 4:10

King James 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; for he hath not another to help 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 comfort yourselves together, and edify one another, even as also ye do.
• Gal 6:1 : 1 Brethren, if a man be overtaken in a fault, ye which are spiritual, restore such an one in the spirit of meekness; considering thyself, lest thou also be tempted.
• 1 Thess 4:18 : 18 Wherefore comfort one another with these words.
• Gen 4:8 : 8 And Cain talked with 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 earrings, 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 earrings which were in their ears, and brought them unto Aaron. 4 And he received them at their hand, and fashioned it with a graving tool, after he had made it a molten calf: and they said, These be 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 so great a sin upon them?
• Deut 9:19-20 : 19 For I was afraid of the anger and hot displeasure, wherewith the LORD was wroth against you to destroy you. But the LORD hearkened unto me at that time also. 20 And the LORD was very angry with Aaron to have destroyed him: and I prayed for Aaron also 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 fetched her to his house, and she became his wife, and bare him a son. But the thing that David had done displeased the LORD.
• 2 Sam 12:7-9 : 7 And Nathan said to David, Thou art the man. Thus saith the LORD 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 moreover have given unto thee such and such things. 9 Wherefore hast thou despised the commandment of the LORD, to do evil in his sight? thou hast killed 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 thine house; because thou hast despised me, and hast taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be thy wife. 11 Thus saith the LORD, 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 neighbour, 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 the LORD. And Nathan said unto David, The LORD 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 the LORD 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 slew 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 strengthened 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, even God with a recompence; he will come and save you.
• Luke 22:31-32 : 31 And the Lord said, Simon, Simon, behold, Satan hath desired to have you, that he may sift you as wheat: 32 But I have prayed for thee, that thy faith fail not: and when thou art converted, strengthen thy brethren.
• Gal 2:11-14 : 11 But when Peter was come to Antioch, I withstood him to the face, because he was to be blamed. 12 For before that certain came from James, he did eat with the Gentiles: but when they were come, he withdrew and separated himself, fearing them which were of the circumcision. 13 And the other Jews dissembled likewise with him; insomuch that Barnabas also 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 Peter before them all, If thou, being a Jew, livest after the manner of Gentiles, and not as do the Jews, why compellest thou the Gentiles to live as do the Jews?