17 The words of the wise which come quietly to the ear are noted more than the cry of a ruler among the foolish.
Original Language
Source Text Study
Relevant source witnesses currently attached to Ecclesiastes 9:17. 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
55
Editorial Notes
0
How to read this study data
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Westminster Leningrad Codex
Hebrew · Hebrew Bible · Public Domain
Coverage: Old Testament / Hebrew Bible
Primary Hebrew source-text witness for the Hebrew Bible.
דִּבְרֵ֣י חֲכָמִ֔ים בְּנַ֖חַת נִשְׁמָעִ֑ים מִזַּעֲקַ֥ת מוֹשֵׁ֖ל בַּכְּסִילִֽים׃
7 word entries
דִּבְרֵ֣י
חֲכָמִ֔ים
בְּנַ֖חַת
נִשְׁמָעִ֑ים
מִזַּעֲקַ֥ת
מוֹשֵׁ֖ל
Greek Brenton Septuagint
Greek · Septuagint / Brenton Greek tradition · Public Domain
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.
Λόγοι σοφῶν ἐν ἀναπαύσει ἀκούονται ὑπὲρ κραυγὴν ἐξουσιάζόντων ἐν ἀφροσύναις.
10 word entries
Λόγοι
- 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
- logoi
- Morphology
- noun, masculine nominative plural
- Gloss
- words, matters
- Part of Speech
- noun
- Definition
- Word, speech, account, matter, or reason.
- Strong's
- G3056
- Occurrences
- 1103
σοφῶν
- 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
- σοφῶν
- Transliteration
- sophon
- Morphology
- Greek -ων form; often genitive plural noun/adjective or nominative masculine participle
- Gloss
- of ... / being ...
- Part of Speech
- participle/noun form
- Definition
- Generated LXX morphology pattern. Lexical meaning and exact parsing should be reviewed against the verse context.
- Occurrences
- 27
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
ἀναπαύσει
- 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
- ἀναπαύσει
- Transliteration
- anapaysei
- 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
- 14
ἀκούονται
- 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
- ἀκούονται
- Transliteration
- akoyontai
- Morphology
- verb, present/future middle-passive form, 3rd plural
- Gloss
- they ...
- Part of Speech
- verb
- Definition
- Generated LXX morphology pattern. Lexical meaning and exact parsing should be reviewed against the verse context.
- Occurrences
- 2
ὑπὲρ
- 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
- ὑπέρ
- Transliteration
- hyper
- Morphology
- preposition
- Gloss
- over, above, on behalf of
- Part of Speech
- preposition
- Definition
- Preposition used with genitive or accusative.
- Occurrences
- 395
κραυγὴν
- 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
- κραυγὴν
- Transliteration
- kraygen
- Morphology
- accusative singular feminine 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
- 12
ἐξουσιάζόντων
- 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
- ἐξουσιάζόντων
- Transliteration
- exoysiazonton
- Morphology
- Greek -ων form; often genitive plural noun/adjective or nominative masculine participle
- Gloss
- of ... / being ...
- Part of Speech
- participle/noun form
- Definition
- Generated LXX morphology pattern. Lexical meaning and exact parsing should be reviewed against the verse context.
- Occurrences
- 1
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
ἀφροσύναις
- 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
- ἀφροσύναις
- Transliteration
- aphrosynais
- 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
Syriac Peshitta Old Testament
Syriac · Syriac Peshitta · MIT License
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.
ܡ̈ܠܝ ܚ̈ܟܝܡܐ ܒܢܝܚܐ ܡܫܬ̈ܡܥܢ ܡܢ ܙܥܩܬܐ ܕܫܠܝܛܐ ܒܣ̈ܟܠܐ
8 word entries
ܡ̈ܠܝ
- 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
- ܡܠܝ
- Transliteration
- mly
- Morphology
- Syriac source token; morphology requires contextual review
- Occurrences
- 36
ܚ̈ܟܝܡܐ
- 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
- ܚܟܝܡܐ
- Transliteration
- hkym'
- Morphology
- probable emphatic-state noun/adjective or verbal form ending in -a
- Occurrences
- 64
ܒܢܝܚܐ
- 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
- ܒܢܝܚܐ
- Transliteration
- bnyh'
- Morphology
- probable emphatic-state noun/adjective or verbal form ending in -a; possible prefixed preposition b-
- Occurrences
- 7
ܡܫܬ̈ܡܥܢ
- 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
- ܡܫܬܡܥܢ
- Transliteration
- mshtm'n
- Morphology
- Syriac source token; morphology requires contextual review
- Occurrences
- 1
ܡܢ
- 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
- ܡܢ
- Transliteration
- mn
- Morphology
- Syriac source token; morphology requires contextual review
- Occurrences
- 5552
ܙܥܩܬܐ
- 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
- ܙܥܩܬܐ
- Transliteration
- z'qt'
- Morphology
- probable emphatic-state noun/adjective or verbal form ending in -a
- Occurrences
- 2
ܕܫܠܝܛܐ
- 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
- ܕܫܠܝܛܐ
- Transliteration
- dshlyt'
- Morphology
- probable emphatic-state noun/adjective or verbal form ending in -a; possible prefixed relative/genitive marker d-
- Occurrences
- 5
ܒܣ̈ܟܠܐ
- 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
- ܒܣܟܠܐ
- Transliteration
- bskl'
- Morphology
- probable emphatic-state noun/adjective or verbal form ending in -a; possible prefixed preposition b-
- Occurrences
- 2
Targumim on Prophets and Writings
Aramaic · Targum Jonathan and Writings Targumim · Public Domain
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.
מִלֵּי דִּצְלוֹתָא דְּחַכִּימַיָּא בַחֲשַׁאי מִתְקַבְּלִין קֳדָם מָרֵי עָלְמָא יַתִּיר מִקִבְּלַת גַבְרָא רַשִּׁיעָא דְּהוּא שָׁלִיט עַל שָׁטְיָן דְּפַגִין וְלֵית מְקַבֵּיל׃
19 word entries
מִלֵּי
- Status
- Preliminary machine alignment
- Confidence
- low aramaic preliminary
- Note
- Preliminary Aramaic token normalization. Lemma/gloss/morphology require later review.
- Lemma
- מלי
- Transliteration
- mly
- Morphology
- preliminary Aramaic source token
- Occurrences
- 102
דִּצְלוֹתָא
- Status
- Preliminary machine alignment
- Confidence
- low aramaic preliminary
- Note
- Preliminary Aramaic token normalization. Lemma/gloss/morphology require later review.
- Lemma
- צלותא
- Transliteration
- dtslwt'
- Morphology
- preliminary Aramaic emphatic noun/adjective candidate
- Occurrences
- 37
דְּחַכִּימַיָּא
- Status
- Preliminary machine alignment
- Confidence
- low aramaic preliminary
- Note
- Preliminary Aramaic token normalization. Lemma/gloss/morphology require later review.
- Lemma
- חכימיא
- Transliteration
- dchkymy'
- Morphology
- preliminary Aramaic emphatic noun/adjective candidate
- Occurrences
- 37
בַחֲשַׁאי
- Status
- Preliminary machine alignment
- Confidence
- low aramaic preliminary
- Note
- Preliminary Aramaic token normalization. Lemma/gloss/morphology require later review.
- Lemma
- חשאי
- Transliteration
- bchsh'y
- Morphology
- preliminary Aramaic token with stripped prefix/suffix
- Occurrences
- 3
מִתְקַבְּלִין
- Status
- Preliminary machine alignment
- Confidence
- low aramaic preliminary
- Note
- Preliminary Aramaic token normalization. Lemma/gloss/morphology require later review.
- Lemma
- תקבלין
- Transliteration
- mtqblyn
- Morphology
- preliminary Aramaic token with stripped prefix/suffix
- Occurrences
- 7
קֳדָם
- Confidence
- medium aramaic rule-aligned
- Note
- Matched Spirit Nation Aramaic rule lexicon. Verify before labeling as hand-reviewed scholarship.
- Lemma
- קדם
- Transliteration
- qdm
- Morphology
- prepositional or nominal form
- Gloss
- before, in front of, east
- Occurrences
- 2023
מָרֵי
- Status
- Preliminary machine alignment
- Confidence
- low aramaic preliminary
- Note
- Preliminary Aramaic token normalization. Lemma/gloss/morphology require later review.
- Lemma
- מרי
- Transliteration
- mry
- Morphology
- preliminary Aramaic source token
- Occurrences
- 88
עָלְמָא
- Status
- Preliminary machine alignment
- Confidence
- low aramaic preliminary
- Note
- Preliminary Aramaic token normalization. Lemma/gloss/morphology require later review.
- Lemma
- עלמא
- Transliteration
- 'lm'
- Morphology
- preliminary Aramaic emphatic noun/adjective candidate
- Occurrences
- 549
יַתִּיר
- Status
- Preliminary machine alignment
- Confidence
- low aramaic preliminary
- Note
- Preliminary Aramaic token normalization. Lemma/gloss/morphology require later review.
- Lemma
- יתיר
- Transliteration
- ytyr
- Morphology
- preliminary Aramaic source token
- Occurrences
- 54
מִקִבְּלַת
- Status
- Preliminary machine alignment
- Confidence
- low aramaic preliminary
- Note
- Preliminary Aramaic token normalization. Lemma/gloss/morphology require later review.
- Lemma
- קבלת
- Transliteration
- mqblt
- Morphology
- preliminary Aramaic token with stripped prefix/suffix
- Occurrences
- 5
גַבְרָא
- Status
- Preliminary machine alignment
- Confidence
- low aramaic preliminary
- Note
- Preliminary Aramaic token normalization. Lemma/gloss/morphology require later review.
- Lemma
- גברא
- Transliteration
- gbr'
- Morphology
- preliminary Aramaic emphatic noun/adjective candidate
- Occurrences
- 524
רַשִּׁיעָא
- Status
- Preliminary machine alignment
- Confidence
- low aramaic preliminary
- Note
- Preliminary Aramaic token normalization. Lemma/gloss/morphology require later review.
- Lemma
- רשיעא
- Transliteration
- rshy''
- Morphology
- preliminary Aramaic emphatic noun/adjective candidate
- Occurrences
- 147
דְּהוּא
- Confidence
- medium aramaic rule-aligned
- Note
- Matched Spirit Nation Aramaic rule lexicon. Verify before labeling as hand-reviewed scholarship.
- Lemma
- הוא
- Transliteration
- dhw'
- Morphology
- prefixed relative/genitive ד + personal/demonstrative pronoun
- Gloss
- of/that he, it
- Occurrences
- 992
שָׁלִיט
- Status
- Preliminary machine alignment
- Confidence
- low aramaic preliminary
- Note
- Preliminary Aramaic token normalization. Lemma/gloss/morphology require later review.
- Lemma
- שליט
- Transliteration
- shlyt
- Morphology
- preliminary Aramaic source token
- Occurrences
- 45
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
שָׁטְיָן
- Status
- Preliminary machine alignment
- Confidence
- low aramaic preliminary
- Note
- Preliminary Aramaic token normalization. Lemma/gloss/morphology require later review.
- Lemma
- שטין
- Transliteration
- shtyn
- Morphology
- preliminary Aramaic source token
- Occurrences
- 12
דְּפַגִין
- Status
- Preliminary machine alignment
- Confidence
- low aramaic preliminary
- Note
- Preliminary Aramaic token normalization. Lemma/gloss/morphology require later review.
- Lemma
- פגין
- Transliteration
- dpgyn
- Morphology
- preliminary Aramaic token with stripped prefix/suffix
- Occurrences
- 1
וְלֵית
- Status
- Preliminary machine alignment
- Confidence
- low aramaic preliminary
- Note
- Preliminary Aramaic token normalization. Lemma/gloss/morphology require later review.
- Lemma
- לית
- Transliteration
- wlyt
- Morphology
- preliminary Aramaic token with prefixed conjunction
- Occurrences
- 629
מְקַבֵּיל׃
- Status
- Preliminary machine alignment
- Confidence
- low aramaic preliminary
- Note
- Preliminary Aramaic token normalization. Lemma/gloss/morphology require later review.
- Lemma
- קביל
- Transliteration
- mqbyl
- Morphology
- preliminary Aramaic token with stripped prefix/suffix
- Occurrences
- 185
Latin Vulgate Clementine
Latin · Latin Vulgate · Public Domain text; CC BY-SA 4.0 morphology
Coverage: Bible and Apocrypha where imported
Latin textual tradition with GreLa-backed lemma/POS morphology for most tokens.
Verba sapientium audiuntur in silentio, plus quam clamor principis inter stultos.
11 word entries
verba
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- uerbum
- Transliteration
- verba
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: noun
- Occurrences
- 1162
sapientium
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- sapiens
- Transliteration
- sapientium
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: noun
- Occurrences
- 208
audiuntur
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- audio
- Transliteration
- audiuntur
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: verb
- Occurrences
- 1534
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
silentio
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- silentium
- Transliteration
- silentio
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: noun
- Occurrences
- 31
plus
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- multus
- Transliteration
- plus
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: adjective
- Occurrences
- 1032
quam
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- quam
- Transliteration
- quam
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: adverb
- Occurrences
- 426
clamor
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- clamor
- Transliteration
- clamor
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: noun
- Occurrences
- 74
principis
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- princeps
- Transliteration
- principis
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: noun
- Occurrences
- 830
inter
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- inter
- Transliteration
- inter
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: adposition/preposition
- Occurrences
- 502
stultos
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- stultus
- Transliteration
- stultos
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: noun
- Occurrences
- 129
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.
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He who says words of protest to a man will later have more approval than one who says smooth words with his tongue.
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For the righteousness of God does not come about by the wrath of man.
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He will make no cry, his voice will not be loud: his words will not come to men's ears in the streets.
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His light will not be put out, and he will not be crushed, till he has given the knowledge of the true God to the earth, and the sea-lands will be waiting for his teaching.
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