2 Be not unwise with your mouth, and let not your heart be quick to say anything before God, because God is in heaven and you are on the earth — so let not the number of your words be great.
Source Text Study
Relevant source witnesses currently attached to Ecclesiastes 5:2. Some ancient sources use different book or verse structures, so availability notes call out gaps honestly instead of forcing five panels everywhere.
How to read this study data
Source panels are separated by tradition and license. Imported or dataset-backed morphology is stronger than generated or rule-aligned morphology, and editorial alignment notes explain source-structure exceptions without pretending to be ancient source text.
When a verse uses different numbering in a source tradition, Spirit Nation may show the closest mapped source reference and label it directly on the panel.
Coverage: Old Testament / Hebrew Bible
Primary Hebrew source-text witness for the Hebrew Bible.
כִּ֛י בָּ֥א הַחֲל֖וֹם בְּרֹ֣ב עִנְיָ֑ן וְק֥וֹל כְּסִ֖יל בְּרֹ֥ב דְּבָרִֽים׃
כִּ֛י
בָּ֥א
הַחֲל֖וֹם
בְּרֹ֣ב
עִנְיָ֑ן
וְק֥וֹל
בְּרֹ֥ב
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.
Ὅτι παραγίνεται ἐνύπνιον ἐν πλήθει πειρασμοῦ, καὶ φωνὴ ἄφρονος ἐν πλήθει λόγων.
Ὅτι
- 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
- ὅτι
- Transliteration
- hoti
- Morphology
- subordinating conjunction
- Gloss
- that, because, for
- Part of Speech
- conjunction
- Definition
- Conjunction introducing cause, content, or explanation.
- Occurrences
- 3703
παραγίνεται
- 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
- παραγίνεται
- Transliteration
- paraginetai
- Morphology
- verb, present/future middle-passive form, 3rd singular
- Gloss
- he/she/it ...
- Part of Speech
- verb
- Definition
- Generated LXX morphology pattern. Lexical meaning and exact parsing should be reviewed against the verse context.
- Occurrences
- 12
ἐνύπνιον
- 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
- ἐνύπνιον
- Transliteration
- enypnion
- Morphology
- noun, neuter nominative/accusative singular
- Gloss
- dream
- Part of Speech
- noun
- Definition
- Dream or vision during sleep.
- Occurrences
- 50
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
πλήθει
- 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
- πλῆθος
- Transliteration
- plethos
- Morphology
- noun, neuter nominative/accusative singular
- Gloss
- multitude, abundance
- Part of Speech
- noun
- Definition
- Multitude, fullness, quantity, or abundance.
- Occurrences
- 265
πειρασμοῦ
- 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
- πειρασμοῦ
- Transliteration
- peirasmoy
- Morphology
- genitive singular masculine/neuter pattern
- Gloss
- of ...
- Part of Speech
- noun/adjective/pronoun 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
φωνὴ
- 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
- φωνή
- Transliteration
- phone
- Morphology
- noun, feminine nominative singular
- Gloss
- voice, sound
- Part of Speech
- noun
- Definition
- Voice, sound, or utterance.
- Occurrences
- 549
ἄφρονος
- 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
- ἄφρονος
- Transliteration
- aphronos
- Morphology
- nominative masculine singular or genitive neuter 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
- 18
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
πλήθει
- 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
- πλῆθος
- Transliteration
- plethos
- Morphology
- noun, neuter nominative/accusative singular
- Gloss
- multitude, abundance
- Part of Speech
- noun
- Definition
- Multitude, fullness, quantity, or abundance.
- Occurrences
- 265
λόγων
- 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
- λόγος
- Transliteration
- logon
- Morphology
- noun, masculine genitive plural
- Gloss
- of words, matters
- Part of Speech
- noun
- Definition
- Word, speech, account, matter, or reason.
- Strong's
- G3056
- Occurrences
- 1103
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.
ܡܛܠ ܕܐܬܐ ܚܠܡܐ ܒܣܘܓܐܬ ܥܢܝܢܐ ܘܩܠܗ ܕܣܟܠܐ ܒܣܘܓܐܬ ܦܬ̈ܓܡܐ
ܡܛܠ
- 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
- ܡܛܠ
- Transliteration
- mtl
- Morphology
- Syriac source token; morphology requires contextual review
- Occurrences
- 2606
ܕܐܬܐ
- 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
- ܕܐܬܐ
- Transliteration
- d't'
- Morphology
- probable emphatic-state noun/adjective or verbal form ending in -a; possible prefixed relative/genitive marker d-
- Occurrences
- 98
ܚܠܡܐ
- 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
- ܚܠܡܐ
- Transliteration
- hlm'
- Morphology
- probable emphatic-state noun/adjective or verbal form ending in -a
- Occurrences
- 13
ܒܣܘܓܐܬ
- 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
- ܒܣܘܓܐܬ
- Transliteration
- bswg't
- Morphology
- possible feminine singular, construct, or verbal ending; possible prefixed preposition b-
- Occurrences
- 5
ܥܢܝܢܐ
- 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
- ܥܢܝܢܐ
- Transliteration
- 'nyn'
- Morphology
- probable emphatic-state noun/adjective or verbal form ending in -a
- Occurrences
- 6
ܘܩܠܗ
- 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
- ܘܩܠܗ
- Transliteration
- wqlh
- Morphology
- Syriac source token; morphology requires contextual review; prefixed conjunction
- Occurrences
- 3
ܕܣܟܠܐ
- 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
- ܕܣܟܠܐ
- Transliteration
- dskl'
- Morphology
- probable emphatic-state noun/adjective or verbal form ending in -a; possible prefixed relative/genitive marker d-
- Occurrences
- 29
ܒܣܘܓܐܬ
- 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
- ܒܣܘܓܐܬ
- Transliteration
- bswg't
- Morphology
- possible feminine singular, construct, or verbal ending; possible prefixed preposition b-
- Occurrences
- 5
ܦܬ̈ܓܡܐ
- 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
- ܦܬܓܡܐ
- Transliteration
- ptgm'
- Morphology
- probable emphatic-state noun/adjective or verbal form ending in -a
- Occurrences
- 285
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.
אֲרוּם הֵיכִמָא דְּאָתֵי חֶלְמָא עַל הִרְהוּרֵי לִבָּא בִּסְגִיאוּת [גַוְונָן] קָל שָׁטְיָא [כְּדֵין] בִּסְגִיאוּת פִּתְגָמִין בְּטֵילִין׃
אֲרוּם
- Status
- Preliminary machine alignment
- Confidence
- low aramaic preliminary
- Note
- Preliminary Aramaic token normalization. Lemma/gloss/morphology require later review.
- Lemma
- ארום
- Transliteration
- 'rwm
- Morphology
- preliminary Aramaic source token
- Occurrences
- 997
הֵיכִמָא
- Status
- Preliminary machine alignment
- Confidence
- low aramaic preliminary
- Note
- Preliminary Aramaic token normalization. Lemma/gloss/morphology require later review.
- Lemma
- היכמא
- Transliteration
- hykm'
- Morphology
- preliminary Aramaic emphatic noun/adjective candidate
- Occurrences
- 69
דְּאָתֵי
- Status
- Preliminary machine alignment
- Confidence
- low aramaic preliminary
- Note
- Preliminary Aramaic token normalization. Lemma/gloss/morphology require later review.
- Lemma
- אתי
- Transliteration
- d'ty
- Morphology
- preliminary Aramaic token with stripped prefix/suffix
- Occurrences
- 138
חֶלְמָא
- Status
- Preliminary machine alignment
- Confidence
- low aramaic preliminary
- Note
- Preliminary Aramaic token normalization. Lemma/gloss/morphology require later review.
- Lemma
- חלמא
- Transliteration
- chlm'
- Morphology
- preliminary Aramaic emphatic noun/adjective candidate
- Occurrences
- 13
עַל
- Confidence
- medium aramaic rule-aligned
- Note
- Matched Spirit Nation Aramaic rule lexicon. Verify before labeling as hand-reviewed scholarship.
- Lemma
- על
- Transliteration
- 'l
- Morphology
- preposition
- Gloss
- on, upon, against, concerning
- Occurrences
- 3568
הִרְהוּרֵי
- Status
- Preliminary machine alignment
- Confidence
- low aramaic preliminary
- Note
- Preliminary Aramaic token normalization. Lemma/gloss/morphology require later review.
- Lemma
- הרהורי
- Transliteration
- hrhwry
- Morphology
- preliminary Aramaic source token
- Occurrences
- 9
לִבָּא
- Status
- Preliminary machine alignment
- Confidence
- low aramaic preliminary
- Note
- Preliminary Aramaic token normalization. Lemma/gloss/morphology require later review.
- Lemma
- לבא
- Transliteration
- lb'
- Morphology
- preliminary Aramaic emphatic noun/adjective candidate
- Occurrences
- 168
בִּסְגִיאוּת
- Status
- Preliminary machine alignment
- Confidence
- low aramaic preliminary
- Note
- Preliminary Aramaic token normalization. Lemma/gloss/morphology require later review.
- Lemma
- סגיאות
- Transliteration
- bsgy'wt
- Morphology
- preliminary Aramaic token with stripped prefix/suffix
- Occurrences
- 27
גַוְונָן
- Status
- Preliminary machine alignment
- Confidence
- low aramaic preliminary
- Note
- Preliminary Aramaic token normalization. Lemma/gloss/morphology require later review.
- Lemma
- גוונן
- Transliteration
- gwwnn
- Morphology
- preliminary Aramaic source token
- Occurrences
- 1
קָל
- Status
- Preliminary machine alignment
- Confidence
- low aramaic preliminary
- Note
- Preliminary Aramaic token normalization. Lemma/gloss/morphology require later review.
- Lemma
- קל
- Transliteration
- ql
- Morphology
- preliminary Aramaic source token
- Occurrences
- 120
שָׁטְיָא
- Status
- Preliminary machine alignment
- Confidence
- low aramaic preliminary
- Note
- Preliminary Aramaic token normalization. Lemma/gloss/morphology require later review.
- Lemma
- שטיא
- Transliteration
- shty'
- Morphology
- preliminary Aramaic emphatic noun/adjective candidate
- Occurrences
- 39
כְּדֵין
- Status
- Preliminary machine alignment
- Confidence
- low aramaic preliminary
- Note
- Preliminary Aramaic token normalization. Lemma/gloss/morphology require later review.
- Lemma
- דין
- Transliteration
- kdyn
- Morphology
- preliminary Aramaic token with stripped prefix/suffix
- Occurrences
- 684
בִּסְגִיאוּת
- Status
- Preliminary machine alignment
- Confidence
- low aramaic preliminary
- Note
- Preliminary Aramaic token normalization. Lemma/gloss/morphology require later review.
- Lemma
- סגיאות
- Transliteration
- bsgy'wt
- Morphology
- preliminary Aramaic token with stripped prefix/suffix
- Occurrences
- 27
פִּתְגָמִין
- Status
- Preliminary machine alignment
- Confidence
- low aramaic preliminary
- Note
- Preliminary Aramaic token normalization. Lemma/gloss/morphology require later review.
- Lemma
- פתגמין
- Transliteration
- ptgmyn
- Morphology
- preliminary Aramaic source token
- Occurrences
- 24
בְּטֵילִין׃
- Status
- Preliminary machine alignment
- Confidence
- low aramaic preliminary
- Note
- Preliminary Aramaic token normalization. Lemma/gloss/morphology require later review.
- Lemma
- טילין
- Transliteration
- btylyn
- Morphology
- preliminary Aramaic token with stripped prefix/suffix
- Occurrences
- 2
Coverage: Bible and Apocrypha where imported
Latin textual tradition with GreLa-backed lemma/POS morphology for most tokens.
Multas curas sequuntur somnia, et in multis sermonibus invenietur stultitia.
multas
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- multus
- Transliteration
- multas
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: adjective
- Occurrences
- 1032
curas
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- cura
- Transliteration
- curas
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: noun
- Occurrences
- 41
sequuntur
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- sequor
- Transliteration
- sequuntur
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: verb
- Occurrences
- 281
somnia
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- somnium
- Transliteration
- somnia
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: noun
- Occurrences
- 88
et
- 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
in
- 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
multis
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- multus
- Transliteration
- multis
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: adjective
- Occurrences
- 1032
sermonibus
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- sermo
- Transliteration
- sermonibus
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: noun
- Occurrences
- 626
invenitur
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- inuenio
- Transliteration
- invenitur
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: verb
- Occurrences
- 682
stultitia
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- stultitia
- Transliteration
- stultitia
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: noun
- Occurrences
- 47
Ranked cross references
Connections are ranked by community votes in the OpenBible.info cross-reference dataset (CC BY 4.0). They suggest related themes, words, events, or people; they are not automatic interpretations.
Matthew 6:7
And in your prayer do not make use of the same words again and again, as the Gentiles do: for they have the idea that God will give attention to them because of the number of their words.
30 relevance votesProverbs 10:19
Where there is much talk there will be no end to sin, but he who keeps his mouth shut does wisely.
27 relevance votesIsaiah 55:9
For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.
19 relevance votesMatthew 6:9
Let this then be your prayer: Our Father in heaven, may your name be kept holy.
11 relevance votesEcclesiastes 5:7
Because much talk comes from dreams and things of no purpose. But let the fear of God be in you.
10 relevance votesGenesis 18:27
And Abraham answering said, Truly, I who am only dust, have undertaken to put my thoughts before the Lord:
10 relevance votesEcclesiastes 5:3
As a dream comes from much business, so the voice of a foolish man comes with words in great number.
10 relevance votesJames 3:2
For we all go wrong in a number of things. If a man never makes a slip in his talk, then he is a complete man and able to keep all his body in control.
9 relevance votesGenesis 28:20
Then Jacob took an oath, and said, If God will be with me, and keep me safe on my journey, and give me food and clothing to put on,
9 relevance votesProverbs 20:25
It is a danger to a man to say without thought, It is holy, and, after taking his oaths, to be questioning if it is necessary to keep them.
9 relevance votesPsalms 115:3
But our God is in heaven: he has done whatever was pleasing to him.
8 relevance votesGenesis 18:32
And he said, O let not the Lord be angry and I will say only one word more: by chance there may be ten there. And he said, I will have mercy because of the ten.
7 relevance votes