Ecclesiastes 9:15

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

Now there was found in it a poor wise man, and he by his wisdom delivered the city; yet no man remembered that same poor man.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וּמָ֣צָא בָ֗הּ אִ֤ישׁ מִסְכֵּן֙ חָכָ֔ם וּמִלַּט־ה֥וּא אֶת־הָעִ֖יר בְּחָכְמָת֑וֹ וְאָדָם֙ לֹ֣א זָכַ֔ר אֶת־הָאִ֥ישׁ הַמִּסְכֵּ֖ן הַהּֽוּא׃

Transliteration

And-māṣāʾ in-her ʾîš miskēn ḥākām and-millaṭ-he ʾet-the-ʿîr in-ḥokmātô; and-ʾādām not zākar ʾet-the-ʾîš the-miskēn the-that.

Grammar Details

*māṣāʾ*: verb, qal perfect, 3rd person masculine singular - found
*ʾîš*: noun, masculine singular with article - the man
*miskēn*: adjective, masculine singular with article - the poor
*ḥākām*: adjective, masculine singular - wise
*millaṭ*: verb, piel perfect, 3rd person masculine singular - delivered/saved
*ʿîr*: noun, feminine singular with article - the city
*ḥokmātô*: noun, feminine singular with 3rd person masculine singular suffix - his wisdom
*ʾādām*: noun, masculine singular - mankind/people
*zākar*: verb, qal perfect, 3rd person masculine singular - remembered
*hû*: demonstrative pronoun, masculine singular - that

Word Meanings

*māṣāʾ*: found/discovered/happened upon
*ʾîš miskēn ḥākām*: poor wise man/lowly but wise person
*miskēn*: poor/lowly/needy/wretched
*millaṭ*: delivered/saved/rescued
*ḥokmātô*: his wisdom/his insight/his understanding
*ʾādām*: mankind/people/no one
*zākar*: remembered/recalled/thought about

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King James Version with Strong's Numbers

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Referenced Verses

Eccl 4:13 : 13 Better is a poor and a wise child than an old and foolish king, who will no more be admonished.
Gen 40:23 : 23 Yet did not the chief butler remember Joseph, but forgat him.
2 Sam 20:22 : 22 Then the woman went unto all the people in her wisdom. And they cut off the head of Sheba the son of Bichri, and cast it out to Joab. And he blew a trumpet, and they retired from the city, every man to his tent. And Joab returned to Jerusalem unto the king.
Esth 6:2-3 : 2 And it was found written, that Mordecai had told of Bigthana and Teresh, two of the king's chamberlains, the keepers of the door, who sought to lay hand on the king Ahasuerus. 3 And the king said, What honour and dignity hath been done to Mordecai for this? Then said the king's servants that ministered unto him, There is nothing done for him.
Eccl 2:16 : 16 For there is no remembrance of the wise more than of the fool for ever; seeing that which now is in the days to come shall all be forgotten. And how dieth the wise man? as the fool.

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