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Ecclesiastes 4:6

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Masoretic Text 1524

H2896 Better טוב
H4393   מלא
H3709   כף
H5183 with quietness נחת
H4393   ממלא
H2651 than both the hands חפנים
H5999 with travail עמל
H7469 and vexation ורעות
H7307 of spirit רוח׃

King James Bible (Oxford 1769)

H2896 Better
  is
  an
H4480 handful
  with
H5183 quietness
  than
  both
  the
H2651 hands
H4480 full
  with
H5999 travail
  and
H7469 vexation
  of
H7307 spirit

Hebrew-English Dictionary

Strongs: H7307
Hebrew: רוּחַ
Transliteration: rûwach
Pronunciation: roo'-akh
Part of Speech: Noun Feminine
Bible Usage: {air} {anger} {blast} {breath} X-(idiom) {cool} {courage} {mind} X-(idiom) {quarter} X-(idiom) {side} spirit ({[-ual]}) {tempest} X-(idiom) {vain} ([whirl-]) wind (-y).
Definition:  

wind; by resemblance {breath} that {is} a sensible (or even violent) exhalation; figuratively {life} anger: unsubstantiality; by extension a region of the sky; by resemblance {spirit} but only of a rational being (including its expression and functions)

1. wind, breath, mind, spirit

a. breath

b. wind

1. of heaven

2. quarter (of wind), side

3. breath of air

4. air, gas

5. vain, empty thing

c. spirit (as that which breathes quickly in animation or agitation)

1. spirit, animation, vivacity, vigour

2. courage

3. temper, anger

4. impatience, patience

5. spirit, disposition (as troubled, bitter, discontented)

6. disposition (of various kinds), unaccountable or uncontrollable impulse

7. prophetic spirit

d. spirit (of the living, breathing being in man and animals)

1. as gift, preserved by God, God's spirit, departing at death, disembodied being

e. spirit (as seat of emotion)

1. desire

2. sorrow, trouble

f. spirit

1. as seat or organ of mental acts

2. rarely of the will

3. as seat especially of moral character

g. Spirit of God, the third person of the triune God, the Holy Spirit, coequal, coeternal with the Father and the Son

1. as inspiring ecstatic state of prophecy

2. as impelling prophet to utter instruction or warning

3. imparting warlike energy and executive and administrative power

4. as endowing men with various gifts

5. as energy of life

6. as manifest in the Shekinah glory

7. never referred to as a depersonalised force

The Brown-Driver-Briggs
Hebrew-English Lexicon (BDB) 1906
Strong's Exhaustive Concordance
by James Strong (S.T.D.) (LL.D.) 1890.