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title: רַעְיוֹן — desire · The Tanakh dictionary
description: רַעְיוֹן (7475), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 3 times: desire. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# רַעְיוֹן

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«רַעְיוֹן» in the Tanakh dictionary: **desire** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 3 times · **Key:** 7475 · **BDB:** רַעְיוֹן

### Glosses

\[is\].a.striving (1); a.striving (1); the.striving (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

desire [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7475/#m1)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n. \[m.\] id.;—cstr., רַעְיוֹן רוּחַ Ec 1:17, הֶבֶל וְר׳ רוּחַ 4:16 (cf. foreg.), בְּכָל־עֲמָלוֹ וּבְר׳ לִבּוֹ 2:22.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (2 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «רַעְיוֹן» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7475/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Ecclesiastes 1:17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/ECC.1.17/)

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וָאֶתְּנָ֤ה לִבִּי֙ לָדַ֣עַת חָכְמָ֔ה וְדַ֥עַת הוֹלֵל֖וֹת וְשִׂכְל֑וּת יָדַ֕עְתִּי שֶׁגַּם־זֶ֥ה ה֖וּא רַעְי֥וֹן רֽוּחַ׃

*Word for word:* and I gave heart my to know wisdom and to.know madness(es) and folly I.knew (cmp) also this it \[is\].a.striving of.wind

*JPS 1917:* And I applied my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly — I perceived that this also was a striving after wind.

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[Ecclesiastes 2:22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/ECC.2.22/)

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כִּ֠י מֶֽה־הֹוֶ֤ה לָֽאָדָם֙ בְּכָל־עֲמָל֔וֹ וּבְרַעְי֖וֹן לִבּו֑שֶׁה֥וּא עָמֵ֖ל תַּ֥חַת הַשָּֽׁמֶשׁ׃

*Word for word:* (dm) what? \[is\].becoming to the person in all toil his and in the.striving his.heart his which he \[was\].toiling under the sun

*JPS 1917:* For what hath a man of all his labour, and of the striving of his heart, wherein he laboureth under the sun?

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