Ecclesiastes 3

World English Bible Updated, Verse 8

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⁸ a time to love, and a time to hate; a time for war, and a time for peace.

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Relevant source witnesses currently attached to Ecclesiastes 3:8. 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 56

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.

עֵ֤ת לֶֽאֱהֹב֙ וְעֵ֣ת לִשְׂנֹ֔א עֵ֥ת מִלְחָמָ֖ה וְעֵ֥ת שָׁלֽוֹם׃ ס

8 word entries

עֵ֤ת

Lemma: 6256
Morphology: Hebrew: noun common both gender singular absolute
Part of Speech: noun
Strong's: H6256
Occurrences: 82

לֶֽאֱהֹב֙

Lemma: l/157
Morphology: Hebrew: preposition + verb qal infinitive construct
Part of Speech: preposition
Strong's: H157
Occurrences: 19

וְעֵ֣ת

Lemma: c/6256
Morphology: Hebrew: conjunction + noun common both gender singular absolute
Part of Speech: conjunction
Strong's: H6256
Occurrences: 18

לִשְׂנֹ֔א

Lemma: l/8130
Morphology: Hebrew: preposition + verb qal infinitive construct
Part of Speech: preposition
Strong's: H8130
Occurrences: 7

עֵ֥ת

Lemma: 6256
Morphology: Hebrew: noun common both gender singular construct
Part of Speech: noun
Strong's: H6256
Occurrences: 82

מִלְחָמָ֖ה

Lemma: 4421
Morphology: Hebrew: noun common feminine singular absolute
Part of Speech: noun
Strong's: H4421
Occurrences: 118

וְעֵ֥ת

Lemma: c/6256
Morphology: Hebrew: conjunction + noun common both gender singular construct
Part of Speech: conjunction
Strong's: H6256
Occurrences: 18

שָׁלֽוֹם

Lemma: 7965
Morphology: Hebrew: noun common masculine singular absolute
Part of Speech: noun
Strong's: H7965
Occurrences: 137

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.

Καιρὸς τοῦ φιλῆσαι καὶ καιρὸς τοῦ μισῆσαι, καιρὸς πολέμου καὶ καιρὸς εἰρήνης.

12 word entries

Καιρὸς

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: καιρός
Transliteration: kairos
Morphology: noun, masculine nominative singular
Gloss: time, season
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: Time, season, or appointed moment.
Occurrences: 329

τοῦ

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

φιλῆσαι

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: φιλῆσαι
Transliteration: philesai
Morphology: Greek -σαι form; likely aorist infinitive or middle/passive verb form depending on context
Gloss: to ...
Part of Speech: infinitive/verb 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

καιρὸς

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: καιρός
Transliteration: kairos
Morphology: noun, masculine nominative singular
Gloss: time, season
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: Time, season, or appointed moment.
Occurrences: 329

τοῦ

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

μισῆσαι

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: μισῆσαι
Transliteration: misesai
Morphology: Greek -σαι form; likely aorist infinitive or middle/passive verb form depending on context
Gloss: to ...
Part of Speech: infinitive/verb form
Definition: Generated LXX morphology pattern. Lexical meaning and exact parsing should be reviewed against the verse context.
Occurrences: 4

καιρὸς

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: καιρός
Transliteration: kairos
Morphology: noun, masculine nominative singular
Gloss: time, season
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: Time, season, or appointed moment.
Occurrences: 329

πολέμου

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: πόλεμος
Transliteration: polemos
Morphology: noun, masculine nominative singular
Gloss: war
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: War, battle, or conflict.
Occurrences: 323

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

καιρὸς

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: καιρός
Transliteration: kairos
Morphology: noun, masculine nominative singular
Gloss: time, season
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: Time, season, or appointed moment.
Occurrences: 329

εἰρήνης

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: εἰρήνη
Transliteration: eirene
Morphology: noun, feminine nominative singular
Gloss: peace
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: Peace, welfare, or wholeness.
Occurrences: 265

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.

ܙܒܢܐ ܠܡܪܚܡ ܘܙܒܢܐ ܠܡܣܢܐ ܙܒܢܐ ܕܩܪܒܐ ܘܙܒܢܐ ܕܫܠܡܐ

8 word entries

ܙܒܢܐ

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: ܙܒܢܐ
Transliteration: zbn'
Morphology: probable emphatic-state noun/adjective or verbal form ending in -a
Occurrences: 147

ܠܡܪܚܡ

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: ܠܡܪܚܡ
Transliteration: lmrhm
Morphology: Syriac source token; morphology requires contextual review; possible prefixed preposition l-
Occurrences: 3

ܘܙܒܢܐ

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: ܘܙܒܢܐ
Transliteration: wzbn'
Morphology: probable emphatic-state noun/adjective or verbal form ending in -a; prefixed conjunction
Occurrences: 22

ܠܡܣܢܐ

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: ܠܡܣܢܐ
Transliteration: lmsn'
Morphology: probable emphatic-state noun/adjective or verbal form ending in -a; possible prefixed preposition l-
Occurrences: 1

ܙܒܢܐ

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: ܙܒܢܐ
Transliteration: zbn'
Morphology: probable emphatic-state noun/adjective or verbal form ending in -a
Occurrences: 147

ܕܩܪܒܐ

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: ܕܩܪܒܐ
Transliteration: dqrb'
Morphology: probable emphatic-state noun/adjective or verbal form ending in -a; possible prefixed relative/genitive marker d-
Occurrences: 37

ܘܙܒܢܐ

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: ܘܙܒܢܐ
Transliteration: wzbn'
Morphology: probable emphatic-state noun/adjective or verbal form ending in -a; prefixed conjunction
Occurrences: 22

ܕܫܠܡܐ

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: ܕܫܠܡܐ
Transliteration: dshlm'
Morphology: probable emphatic-state noun/adjective or verbal form ending in -a; possible prefixed relative/genitive marker d-
Occurrences: 35

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.

עִדָּן בְּחִיר לְמִרְחַם חַד לְחַבְרֵיהּ וְעִדָּן בְּחִיר לְמִסְנֵי לִגְבַר חַיָּבָא עִדָּן בְּחִיר לְאָגָחָא קְרָבָא וְעִדָּן בְּחִיר לְמֶעֱבַד שְׁלָמָא׃

18 word entries

עִדָּן

Status: Preliminary machine alignment
Confidence: low aramaic preliminary
Note: Preliminary Aramaic token normalization. Lemma/gloss/morphology require later review.
Lemma: עדן
Transliteration: 'dn
Morphology: preliminary Aramaic source token
Occurrences: 254

בְּחִיר

Status: Preliminary machine alignment
Confidence: low aramaic preliminary
Note: Preliminary Aramaic token normalization. Lemma/gloss/morphology require later review.
Lemma: חיר
Transliteration: bchyr
Morphology: preliminary Aramaic token with stripped prefix/suffix
Occurrences: 38

לְמִרְחַם

Status: Preliminary machine alignment
Confidence: low aramaic preliminary
Note: Preliminary Aramaic token normalization. Lemma/gloss/morphology require later review.
Lemma: מרחם
Transliteration: lmrchm
Morphology: preliminary Aramaic token with stripped prefix/suffix
Occurrences: 7

חַד

Status: Preliminary machine alignment
Confidence: low aramaic preliminary
Note: Preliminary Aramaic token normalization. Lemma/gloss/morphology require later review.
Lemma: חד
Transliteration: chd
Morphology: preliminary Aramaic source token
Occurrences: 373

לְחַבְרֵיהּ

Status: Preliminary machine alignment
Confidence: low aramaic preliminary
Note: Preliminary Aramaic token normalization. Lemma/gloss/morphology require later review.
Lemma: חבריה
Transliteration: lchbryh
Morphology: preliminary Aramaic token with stripped prefix/suffix
Occurrences: 101

וְעִדָּן

Status: Preliminary machine alignment
Confidence: low aramaic preliminary
Note: Preliminary Aramaic token normalization. Lemma/gloss/morphology require later review.
Lemma: עדן
Transliteration: w'dn
Morphology: preliminary Aramaic token with prefixed conjunction
Occurrences: 254

בְּחִיר

Status: Preliminary machine alignment
Confidence: low aramaic preliminary
Note: Preliminary Aramaic token normalization. Lemma/gloss/morphology require later review.
Lemma: חיר
Transliteration: bchyr
Morphology: preliminary Aramaic token with stripped prefix/suffix
Occurrences: 38

לְמִסְנֵי

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

לִגְבַר

Status: Preliminary machine alignment
Confidence: low aramaic preliminary
Note: Preliminary Aramaic token normalization. Lemma/gloss/morphology require later review.
Lemma: גבר
Transliteration: lgbr
Morphology: preliminary Aramaic token with stripped prefix/suffix
Occurrences: 627

חַיָּבָא

Status: Preliminary machine alignment
Confidence: low aramaic preliminary
Note: Preliminary Aramaic token normalization. Lemma/gloss/morphology require later review.
Lemma: חיבא
Transliteration: chyb'
Morphology: preliminary Aramaic emphatic noun/adjective candidate
Occurrences: 46

עִדָּן

Status: Preliminary machine alignment
Confidence: low aramaic preliminary
Note: Preliminary Aramaic token normalization. Lemma/gloss/morphology require later review.
Lemma: עדן
Transliteration: 'dn
Morphology: preliminary Aramaic source token
Occurrences: 254

בְּחִיר

Status: Preliminary machine alignment
Confidence: low aramaic preliminary
Note: Preliminary Aramaic token normalization. Lemma/gloss/morphology require later review.
Lemma: חיר
Transliteration: bchyr
Morphology: preliminary Aramaic token with stripped prefix/suffix
Occurrences: 38

לְאָגָחָא

Status: Preliminary machine alignment
Confidence: low aramaic preliminary
Note: Preliminary Aramaic token normalization. Lemma/gloss/morphology require later review.
Lemma: אגחא
Transliteration: l'gch'
Morphology: preliminary Aramaic emphatic noun/adjective candidate
Occurrences: 79

קְרָבָא

Status: Preliminary machine alignment
Confidence: low aramaic preliminary
Note: Preliminary Aramaic token normalization. Lemma/gloss/morphology require later review.
Lemma: קרבא
Transliteration: qrb'
Morphology: preliminary Aramaic emphatic noun/adjective candidate
Occurrences: 469

וְעִדָּן

Status: Preliminary machine alignment
Confidence: low aramaic preliminary
Note: Preliminary Aramaic token normalization. Lemma/gloss/morphology require later review.
Lemma: עדן
Transliteration: w'dn
Morphology: preliminary Aramaic token with prefixed conjunction
Occurrences: 254

בְּחִיר

Status: Preliminary machine alignment
Confidence: low aramaic preliminary
Note: Preliminary Aramaic token normalization. Lemma/gloss/morphology require later review.
Lemma: חיר
Transliteration: bchyr
Morphology: preliminary Aramaic token with stripped prefix/suffix
Occurrences: 38

לְמֶעֱבַד

Status: Preliminary machine alignment
Confidence: low aramaic preliminary
Note: Preliminary Aramaic token normalization. Lemma/gloss/morphology require later review.
Lemma: מעבד
Transliteration: lm'bd
Morphology: preliminary Aramaic token with stripped prefix/suffix
Occurrences: 278

שְׁלָמָא׃

Status: Preliminary machine alignment
Confidence: low aramaic preliminary
Note: Preliminary Aramaic token normalization. Lemma/gloss/morphology require later review.
Lemma: שלמא
Transliteration: shlm'
Morphology: preliminary Aramaic emphatic noun/adjective candidate
Occurrences: 94

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

Source

Coverage: Bible and Apocrypha where imported

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

Tempus dilectionis, et tempus odii; tempus belli, et tempus pacis.]

10 word entries

tempus

Status: Dataset-backed morphology
Lemma: tempus
Transliteration: tempus
Morphology: GreLa POS: noun
Occurrences: 761

dilectionis

Status: Dataset-backed morphology
Lemma: dilectio
Transliteration: dilectionis
Morphology: GreLa POS: noun
Occurrences: 41

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

tempus

Status: Dataset-backed morphology
Lemma: tempus
Transliteration: tempus
Morphology: GreLa POS: noun
Occurrences: 761

odii

Status: Dataset-backed morphology
Lemma: odium
Transliteration: odii
Morphology: GreLa POS: noun
Occurrences: 57

tempus

Status: Dataset-backed morphology
Lemma: tempus
Transliteration: tempus
Morphology: GreLa POS: noun
Occurrences: 761

belli

Status: Dataset-backed morphology
Lemma: bellum
Transliteration: belli
Morphology: GreLa POS: noun
Occurrences: 186

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

tempus

Status: Dataset-backed morphology
Lemma: tempus
Transliteration: tempus
Morphology: GreLa POS: noun
Occurrences: 761

pacis

Status: Dataset-backed morphology
Lemma: pax
Transliteration: pacis
Morphology: GreLa POS: noun
Occurrences: 346

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.

Ephesians 5:25

Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the assembly and gave himself up for her,

15 relevance votes

Luke 14:26

“If anyone comes to me, and doesn’t disregard his own father, mother, wife, children, brothers, and sisters, yes, and his own life also, he can’t be my disciple.

11 relevance votes

1 Kings 5:4

But now the LORD my God has given me rest on every side. There is no enemy and no evil occurrence.

9 relevance votes

2 Chronicles 19:2

Jehu the son of Hanani the seer went out to meet him, and said to King Jehoshaphat, “Should you help the wicked, and love those who hate the LORD? Because of this, wrath is on you from before the LORD.

8 relevance votes

Psalms 139:21

LORD, don’t I hate those who hate you? Am I not grieved with those who rise up against you?

8 relevance votes

Ephesians 3:19

and to know Christ’s love which surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.

6 relevance votes

Joshua 11:23

So Joshua took the whole land, according to all that the LORD spoke to Moses; and Joshua gave it for an inheritance to Israel according to their divisions by their tribes. Then the land had rest from war.

6 relevance votes

Titus 2:4

that they may train the young wives to love their husbands, to love their children,

6 relevance votes

Revelation 2:2

“I know your works, and your toil and perseverance, and that you can’t tolerate evil men, and have tested those who call themselves apostles, and they are not, and found them false.

6 relevance votes

Ezekiel 16:8

“‘“Now when I passed by you, and looked at you, behold, your time was the time of love; and I spread my garment over you and covered your nakedness. Yes, I pledged myself to you and entered into a covenant with you,” says the Lord GOD, “and you became mine.

3 relevance votes

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