Ecclesiastes 10

Bible in Basic English, Verse 18

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¹⁸ When no work is done the roof goes in, and when the hands do nothing water comes into the house.

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Relevant source witnesses currently attached to Ecclesiastes 10:18. Some ancient sources use different book or verse structures, so availability notes call out gaps honestly instead of forcing five panels everywhere.

Panels 5

Word Entries 58

Editorial Notes 0

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Westminster Leningrad Codex Hebrew · Hebrew Bible · Public Domain

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Coverage: Old Testament / Hebrew Bible

Primary Hebrew source-text witness for the Hebrew Bible.

בַּעֲצַלְתַּ֖יִם יִמַּ֣ךְ הַמְּקָרֶ֑ה וּבְשִׁפְל֥וּת יָדַ֖יִם יִדְלֹ֥ף הַבָּֽיִת׃

7 word entries

בַּעֲצַלְתַּ֖יִם

Lemma: b/6103
Morphology: Hebrew: preposition + noun common feminine dual absolute
Part of Speech: preposition
Strong's: H6103
Occurrences: 1

יִמַּ֣ךְ

Lemma: 4355
Morphology: Hebrew: verb niphal imperfect 3rd person masculine singular
Part of Speech: verb
Strong's: H4355
Occurrences: 1

הַמְּקָרֶ֑ה

Lemma: d/4746
Morphology: Hebrew: particle definite article + noun common masculine singular absolute
Part of Speech: particle
Strong's: H4746
Occurrences: 1

וּבְשִׁפְל֥וּת

Lemma: c/b/8220
Morphology: Hebrew: conjunction + preposition + noun common feminine singular construct
Part of Speech: conjunction
Strong's: H8220
Occurrences: 1

יָדַ֖יִם

Lemma: 3027
Morphology: Hebrew: noun common both gender dual absolute
Part of Speech: noun
Strong's: H3027
Occurrences: 747

יִדְלֹ֥ף

Lemma: 1811
Morphology: Hebrew: verb qal imperfect 3rd person masculine singular
Part of Speech: verb
Strong's: H1811
Occurrences: 3

הַבָּֽיִת

Lemma: d/1004 b
Morphology: Hebrew: particle definite article + noun common masculine singular absolute
Part of Speech: particle
Strong's: H1004
Occurrences: 257

Greek Brenton Septuagint Greek · Septuagint / Brenton Greek tradition · Public Domain

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Coverage: Old Testament and Apocrypha where imported

Ancient Greek translation tradition. Every imported LXX token is classified with confidence labels; rare/generated forms remain needs-review rather than hand-verified scholarship.

Ἐν ὀκνηρίαις ταπεινωθήσεται ἡ δόκωσις, καὶ ἐν ἀργίᾳ χειρῶν στάξει ἡ οἰκία.

12 word entries

Ἐν

Status: Rule-aligned morphology
Confidence: medium high
Confidence note: Rule-aligned high-frequency LXX form. Stronger than generic preliminary enrichment, but not manually reviewed verse-by-verse.
Lemma: ἐν
Transliteration: en
Morphology: preposition with dative
Gloss: in, among, with
Part of Speech: preposition
Definition: Preposition commonly taking the dative.
Strong's: G1722
Occurrences: 13086

ὀκνηρίαις

Status: Rule-aligned morphology
Confidence: low
Confidence note: Rare-form generated LXX morphology pattern. This improves coverage and searchability, but should be treated as low-confidence until reviewed against the verse context.
Lemma: ὀκνηρίαις
Transliteration: okneriais
Morphology: dative plural feminine pattern
Gloss: to/for ...
Part of Speech: noun/adjective form
Definition: Generated LXX morphology pattern. Lexical meaning and exact parsing should be reviewed against the verse context.
Occurrences: 1

ταπεινωθήσεται

Status: Rule-aligned morphology
Confidence: medium
Confidence note: Broad rule-aligned LXX morphology pattern. This is a generated morphology/part-of-speech layer intended for progress and searchability, not a hand-reviewed scholarly parse.
Lemma: ταπεινωθήσεται
Transliteration: tapeinothesetai
Morphology: verb, future middle indicative, 3rd singular
Gloss: he/she/it will ...
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: Generated LXX morphology pattern. Lexical meaning and exact parsing should be reviewed against the verse context.
Occurrences: 10

ἡ

Status: Rule-aligned morphology
Confidence: medium high
Confidence note: Rule-aligned high-frequency LXX form. Stronger than generic preliminary enrichment, but not manually reviewed verse-by-verse.
Lemma: ὁ
Transliteration: ho
Morphology: definite article, nominative masculine singular
Gloss: the
Part of Speech: article
Definition: Greek definite article.
Strong's: G3588
Occurrences: 80473

δόκωσις

Status: Rule-aligned morphology
Confidence: low
Confidence note: Rare-form generated LXX morphology pattern. This improves coverage and searchability, but should be treated as low-confidence until reviewed against the verse context.
Lemma: δόκωσις
Transliteration: dokosis
Morphology: nominative singular feminine third-declension pattern
Gloss: ...
Part of Speech: noun form
Definition: Generated LXX morphology pattern. Lexical meaning and exact parsing should be reviewed against the verse context.
Occurrences: 1

καὶ

Status: Rule-aligned morphology
Confidence: medium high
Confidence note: Rule-aligned high-frequency LXX form. Stronger than generic preliminary enrichment, but not manually reviewed verse-by-verse.
Lemma: καί
Transliteration: kai
Morphology: coordinating conjunction
Gloss: and, also, even
Part of Speech: conjunction
Definition: Coordinating conjunction.
Strong's: G2532
Occurrences: 56730

ἐν

Status: Rule-aligned morphology
Confidence: medium high
Confidence note: Rule-aligned high-frequency LXX form. Stronger than generic preliminary enrichment, but not manually reviewed verse-by-verse.
Lemma: ἐν
Transliteration: en
Morphology: preposition with dative
Gloss: in, among, with
Part of Speech: preposition
Definition: Preposition commonly taking the dative.
Strong's: G1722
Occurrences: 13086

ἀργίᾳ

Status: Rule-aligned morphology
Confidence: low
Confidence note: Rare-form generated LXX morphology pattern. This improves coverage and searchability, but should be treated as low-confidence until reviewed against the verse context.
Lemma: ἀργίᾳ
Transliteration: argia
Morphology: dative singular feminine pattern
Gloss: to/for ...
Part of Speech: noun/adjective form
Definition: Generated LXX morphology pattern. Lexical meaning and exact parsing should be reviewed against the verse context.
Occurrences: 1

χειρῶν

Status: Rule-aligned morphology
Confidence: medium high
Confidence note: Rule-aligned high-frequency LXX form. Stronger than generic preliminary enrichment, but not manually reviewed verse-by-verse.
Lemma: χείρ
Transliteration: cheir
Morphology: noun, feminine nominative singular
Gloss: hand
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: Hand or power.
Occurrences: 1718

στάξει

Status: Rule-aligned morphology
Confidence: low
Confidence note: Rare-form generated LXX morphology pattern. This improves coverage and searchability, but should be treated as low-confidence until reviewed against the verse context.
Lemma: στάξει
Transliteration: staxei
Morphology: dative singular or indeclinable form pattern
Gloss: ...
Part of Speech: noun/adjective form
Definition: Generated LXX morphology pattern. Lexical meaning and exact parsing should be reviewed against the verse context.
Occurrences: 2

ἡ

Status: Rule-aligned morphology
Confidence: medium high
Confidence note: Rule-aligned high-frequency LXX form. Stronger than generic preliminary enrichment, but not manually reviewed verse-by-verse.
Lemma: ὁ
Transliteration: ho
Morphology: definite article, nominative masculine singular
Gloss: the
Part of Speech: article
Definition: Greek definite article.
Strong's: G3588
Occurrences: 80473

οἰκία

Status: Rule-aligned morphology
Confidence: medium
Confidence note: Broad rule-aligned LXX morphology pattern. This is a generated morphology/part-of-speech layer intended for progress and searchability, not a hand-reviewed scholarly parse.
Lemma: οἰκία
Transliteration: oikia
Morphology: nominative/accusative neuter plural or feminine nominative singular pattern
Gloss: ...
Part of Speech: noun/adjective form
Definition: Generated LXX morphology pattern. Lexical meaning and exact parsing should be reviewed against the verse context.
Occurrences: 171

Syriac Peshitta Old Testament Syriac · Syriac Peshitta · MIT License

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Coverage: Old Testament and selected Apocrypha

Ancient Syriac translation tradition. Text coverage is imported; word-level morphology is marked pending until a dedicated Syriac morphology source is attached.

ܒܫܦܠܘܬܐ ܢܬܡܟܟ ܬܛܠܝܠܐ ܘܒܫܦܠܘܬ ܐ̈ܝܕܝܐ ܢܕܠܦ ܒܝܬܐ

7 word entries

ܒܫܦܠܘܬܐ

Confidence: low preliminary Syriac pattern
Note: Spirit Nation preliminary Syriac pattern classification. It improves searchability and display coverage, but exact parsing requires human or dataset review.
Lemma: ܒܫܦܠܘܬܐ
Transliteration: bshplwt'
Morphology: probable emphatic-state noun/adjective or verbal form ending in -a; possible prefixed preposition b-
Occurrences: 2

ܢܬܡܟܟ

Confidence: low preliminary Syriac pattern
Note: Spirit Nation preliminary Syriac pattern classification. It improves searchability and display coverage, but exact parsing requires human or dataset review.
Lemma: ܢܬܡܟܟ
Transliteration: ntmkk
Morphology: Syriac source token; morphology requires contextual review
Occurrences: 2

ܬܛܠܝܠܐ

Confidence: low preliminary Syriac pattern
Note: Spirit Nation preliminary Syriac pattern classification. It improves searchability and display coverage, but exact parsing requires human or dataset review.
Lemma: ܬܛܠܝܠܐ
Transliteration: ttlyl'
Morphology: probable emphatic-state noun/adjective or verbal form ending in -a
Occurrences: 1

ܘܒܫܦܠܘܬ

Confidence: low preliminary Syriac pattern
Note: Spirit Nation preliminary Syriac pattern classification. It improves searchability and display coverage, but exact parsing requires human or dataset review.
Lemma: ܘܒܫܦܠܘܬ
Transliteration: wbshplwt
Morphology: possible feminine singular, construct, or verbal ending; prefixed conjunction
Occurrences: 1

ܐ̈ܝܕܝܐ

Confidence: low preliminary Syriac pattern
Note: Spirit Nation preliminary Syriac pattern classification. It improves searchability and display coverage, but exact parsing requires human or dataset review.
Lemma: ܐܝܕܝܐ
Transliteration: 'ydy'
Morphology: probable emphatic-state noun/adjective or verbal form ending in -a
Occurrences: 27

ܢܕܠܦ

Confidence: low preliminary Syriac pattern
Note: Spirit Nation preliminary Syriac pattern classification. It improves searchability and display coverage, but exact parsing requires human or dataset review.
Lemma: ܢܕܠܦ
Transliteration: ndlp
Morphology: Syriac source token; morphology requires contextual review
Occurrences: 1

ܒܝܬܐ

Confidence: medium preliminary Syriac rule/lexicon alignment
Note: Spirit Nation preliminary Syriac lexicon alignment. Useful for search and first-pass study; review before labeling as verified scholarship.
Lemma: ܒܝܬܐ
Transliteration: bayta
Morphology: noun, masculine emphatic singular
Gloss: house
Occurrences: 169

Targumim on Prophets and Writings Aramaic · Targum Jonathan and Writings Targumim · Public Domain

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Coverage: Prophets, Psalms, Job, Proverbs, Megillot, and Chronicles. Torah Onkelos excluded pending commercial-safe licensing.

Jewish Aramaic interpretive translation tradition. Use as a Targum witness, not as a one-for-one original-language replacement.

בְחַלָשׁוּת עֵיסַק אוֹרָיְתָא וּפִקוּדַיָּא מִתְמַסְכֵּין גְּבַר מִבִּנֲין וּבְמַכִּיכיוּת תַּפְקִידְתָּא דְּאִתְפַּקְּדַת אִתְּתָא לְמִנְטַּר מִן רִיחוּק סוֹאֲבוּת דְּמָא וְלָא נָטְרָא מִתְעַבְדָא דָּוְתָא בְּגוֹ בֵיתָהּ׃

22 word entries

בְחַלָשׁוּת

Status: Preliminary machine alignment
Confidence: low aramaic preliminary
Note: Preliminary Aramaic token normalization. Lemma/gloss/morphology require later review.
Lemma: חלשות
Transliteration: bchlshwt
Morphology: preliminary Aramaic token with stripped prefix/suffix
Occurrences: 2

עֵיסַק

Status: Preliminary machine alignment
Confidence: low aramaic preliminary
Note: Preliminary Aramaic token normalization. Lemma/gloss/morphology require later review.
Lemma: עיסק
Transliteration: 'ysq
Morphology: preliminary Aramaic source token
Occurrences: 26

אוֹרָיְתָא

Confidence: medium aramaic rule-aligned
Note: Matched Spirit Nation Aramaic rule lexicon. Verify before labeling as hand-reviewed scholarship.
Lemma: אוריתא
Transliteration: 'wryt'
Morphology: noun feminine singular emphatic
Gloss: law, Torah
Occurrences: 299

וּפִקוּדַיָּא

Status: Preliminary machine alignment
Confidence: low aramaic preliminary
Note: Preliminary Aramaic token normalization. Lemma/gloss/morphology require later review.
Lemma: פקודיא
Transliteration: wpqwdy'
Morphology: preliminary Aramaic emphatic noun/adjective candidate
Occurrences: 27

מִתְמַסְכֵּין

Status: Preliminary machine alignment
Confidence: low aramaic preliminary
Note: Preliminary Aramaic token normalization. Lemma/gloss/morphology require later review.
Lemma: תמסכין
Transliteration: mtmskyn
Morphology: preliminary Aramaic token with stripped prefix/suffix
Occurrences: 1

גְּבַר

Status: Preliminary machine alignment
Confidence: low aramaic preliminary
Note: Preliminary Aramaic token normalization. Lemma/gloss/morphology require later review.
Lemma: גבר
Transliteration: gbr
Morphology: preliminary Aramaic source token
Occurrences: 627

מִבִּנֲין

Status: Preliminary machine alignment
Confidence: low aramaic preliminary
Note: Preliminary Aramaic token normalization. Lemma/gloss/morphology require later review.
Lemma: בנין
Transliteration: mbnyn
Morphology: preliminary Aramaic token with stripped prefix/suffix
Occurrences: 17

וּבְמַכִּיכיוּת

Status: Preliminary machine alignment
Confidence: low aramaic preliminary
Note: Preliminary Aramaic token normalization. Lemma/gloss/morphology require later review.
Lemma: במכיכיות
Transliteration: wbmkykywt
Morphology: preliminary Aramaic token with prefixed conjunction
Occurrences: 1

תַּפְקִידְתָּא

Status: Preliminary machine alignment
Confidence: low aramaic preliminary
Note: Preliminary Aramaic token normalization. Lemma/gloss/morphology require later review.
Lemma: תפקידתא
Transliteration: tpqydt'
Morphology: preliminary Aramaic emphatic noun/adjective candidate
Occurrences: 9

דְּאִתְפַּקְּדַת

Status: Preliminary machine alignment
Confidence: low aramaic preliminary
Note: Preliminary Aramaic token normalization. Lemma/gloss/morphology require later review.
Lemma: אתפקדת
Transliteration: d'tpqdt
Morphology: preliminary Aramaic token with stripped prefix/suffix
Occurrences: 2

אִתְּתָא

Status: Preliminary machine alignment
Confidence: low aramaic preliminary
Note: Preliminary Aramaic token normalization. Lemma/gloss/morphology require later review.
Lemma: אתתא
Transliteration: 'tt'
Morphology: preliminary Aramaic emphatic noun/adjective candidate
Occurrences: 180

לְמִנְטַּר

Status: Preliminary machine alignment
Confidence: low aramaic preliminary
Note: Preliminary Aramaic token normalization. Lemma/gloss/morphology require later review.
Lemma: מנטר
Transliteration: lmntr
Morphology: preliminary Aramaic token with stripped prefix/suffix
Occurrences: 6

מִן

Confidence: medium aramaic rule-aligned
Note: Matched Spirit Nation Aramaic rule lexicon. Verify before labeling as hand-reviewed scholarship.
Lemma: מן
Transliteration: mn
Morphology: preposition
Gloss: from, out of, than
Occurrences: 2836

רִיחוּק

Status: Preliminary machine alignment
Confidence: low aramaic preliminary
Note: Preliminary Aramaic token normalization. Lemma/gloss/morphology require later review.
Lemma: ריחוק
Transliteration: rychwq
Morphology: preliminary Aramaic source token
Occurrences: 3

סוֹאֲבוּת

Status: Preliminary machine alignment
Confidence: low aramaic preliminary
Note: Preliminary Aramaic token normalization. Lemma/gloss/morphology require later review.
Lemma: סואבות
Transliteration: sw'bwt
Morphology: preliminary Aramaic source token
Occurrences: 3

דְּמָא

Status: Preliminary machine alignment
Confidence: low aramaic preliminary
Note: Preliminary Aramaic token normalization. Lemma/gloss/morphology require later review.
Lemma: דמא
Transliteration: dm'
Morphology: preliminary Aramaic emphatic noun/adjective candidate
Occurrences: 43

וְלָא

Status: Preliminary machine alignment
Confidence: low aramaic preliminary
Note: Preliminary Aramaic token normalization. Lemma/gloss/morphology require later review.
Lemma: ולא
Transliteration: wl'
Morphology: preliminary Aramaic emphatic noun/adjective candidate
Occurrences: 1587

נָטְרָא

Status: Preliminary machine alignment
Confidence: low aramaic preliminary
Note: Preliminary Aramaic token normalization. Lemma/gloss/morphology require later review.
Lemma: נטרא
Transliteration: ntr'
Morphology: preliminary Aramaic emphatic noun/adjective candidate
Occurrences: 9

מִתְעַבְדָא

Status: Preliminary machine alignment
Confidence: low aramaic preliminary
Note: Preliminary Aramaic token normalization. Lemma/gloss/morphology require later review.
Lemma: תעבדא
Transliteration: mt'bd'
Morphology: preliminary Aramaic emphatic noun/adjective candidate
Occurrences: 5

דָּוְתָא

Status: Preliminary machine alignment
Confidence: low aramaic preliminary
Note: Preliminary Aramaic token normalization. Lemma/gloss/morphology require later review.
Lemma: ותא
Transliteration: dwt'
Morphology: preliminary Aramaic emphatic noun/adjective candidate
Occurrences: 64

בְּגוֹ

Status: Preliminary machine alignment
Confidence: low aramaic preliminary
Note: Preliminary Aramaic token normalization. Lemma/gloss/morphology require later review.
Lemma: בגו
Transliteration: bgw
Morphology: preliminary Aramaic source token
Occurrences: 166

בֵיתָהּ׃

Status: Preliminary machine alignment
Confidence: low aramaic preliminary
Note: Preliminary Aramaic token normalization. Lemma/gloss/morphology require later review.
Lemma: יתה
Transliteration: byth
Morphology: preliminary Aramaic token with stripped prefix/suffix
Occurrences: 120

Latin Vulgate Clementine Latin · Latin Vulgate · Public Domain text; CC BY-SA 4.0 morphology

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Coverage: Bible and Apocrypha where imported

Latin textual tradition with GreLa-backed lemma/POS morphology for most tokens.

In pigritiis humiliabitur contignatio, et in infirmitate manuum perstillabit domus.

10 word entries

Status: Dataset-backed morphology
Lemma: in
Transliteration: in
Morphology: GreLa POS: adposition/preposition
Gloss: in
Part of Speech: preposition
Definition: in, into, among, on
Etymology: Latin preposition used with ablative for location or with accusative for motion.
Occurrences: 22264

pigritiis

Status: Dataset-backed morphology
Lemma: pigritia
Transliteration: pigritiis
Morphology: GreLa POS: noun
Occurrences: 1

humiliabitur

Status: Dataset-backed morphology
Lemma: humilio
Transliteration: humiliabitur
Morphology: GreLa POS: verb
Occurrences: 132

contignatio

Status: Dataset-backed morphology
Lemma: contignatio
Transliteration: contignatio
Morphology: GreLa POS: noun
Occurrences: 2

Status: Dataset-backed morphology
Lemma: et
Transliteration: et
Morphology: GreLa POS: coordinating conjunction
Gloss: and
Part of Speech: conjunction
Definition: and, also, even
Etymology: Basic Latin coordinating conjunction.
Occurrences: 50526

Status: Dataset-backed morphology
Lemma: in
Transliteration: in
Morphology: GreLa POS: adposition/preposition
Gloss: in
Part of Speech: preposition
Definition: in, into, among, on
Etymology: Latin preposition used with ablative for location or with accusative for motion.
Occurrences: 22264

infirmitate

Status: Dataset-backed morphology
Lemma: infirmitas
Transliteration: infirmitate
Morphology: GreLa POS: noun
Occurrences: 63

manuum

Status: Dataset-backed morphology
Lemma: manus
Transliteration: manuum
Morphology: GreLa POS: noun
Occurrences: 1822

perstillabit

Status: Dataset-backed morphology
Lemma: perstillo
Transliteration: perstillabit
Morphology: GreLa POS: verb
Occurrences: 3

domus

Status: Dataset-backed morphology
Lemma: domus
Transliteration: domus
Morphology: GreLa POS: noun
Occurrences: 1989

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