H7475: רַעְיוֹן
raʻyôwn · pronounced rah-yone' · “striving”
Definition
desire
KJV translates it as: vexation.
Word origin: from H7462 (רָעָה) in the sense of H7469 (רְעוּת);
Extended definition
longing, striving
Aramaic equivalent: ra.yon (רַעְיוֹן "thought" H7476)
Aramaic equivalent: ra.yon (רַעְיוֹן "thought" H7476)
Brief lexicon based on BDB via STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0).
How H7475 is translated
- is a striving of ×1
- the striving of ×1
- a striving of ×1
Bible verses with H7475 (raʻyôwn)
Raʻyôwn appears in 3 verses.
- Ecclesiastes 1:17
And I gave my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly: I perceived that this also is vexation of spirit.
- Ecclesiastes 2:22
For what hath man of all his labour, and of the vexation of his heart, wherein he hath laboured under the sun?
- Ecclesiastes 4:16
There is no end of all the people, even of all that have been before them: they also that come after shall not rejoice in him. Surely this also is vanity and vexation of spirit.