Word meanings
Strong's dictionary
a primitive root; properly, to come forth to, i.e. appear or exist; transitively, to attain, i.e. find or acquire; figuratively, to occur, meet or be present; [phrase] be able, befall, being, catch, [idiom] certainly, (cause to) come (on, to, to hand), deliver, be enough (cause to) find(-ing, occasion, out), get (hold upon), [idiom] have (here), be here, hit, be left, light (up-) on, meet (with), [idiom] occasion serve, (be) present, ready, speed, suffice, take hold on.
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Ecclesiastes 7:24 יִמְצָאֶֽנּוּ׃ yim.tza.'E.nu · An action: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by him, her or it
That which is, is far off and exceeding deep; who can find it out?
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Ecclesiastes 7:26 וּמוֹצֶ֨א u.mo.Tze' · An -ing word: simple action
And I find more bitter than death the woman whose heart is snares and nets, and whose hands are bands: whoso pleaseth God shall escape from her; but the sinner shall be taken by her.
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Ecclesiastes 7:27 מָצָ֔אתִי ma.Tza.ti · An action: simple action, finished, with a lasting result, done by me
Behold, this have I found, saith the Preacher, laying one thing to another, to find out the account;
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Ecclesiastes 7:27 לִמְצֹ֥א lim.Tzo' · The “to do” form of an action: simple action
Behold, this have I found, saith the Preacher, laying one thing to another, to find out the account;
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Ecclesiastes 7:28 מָצָ֑אתִי ma.Tza.ti · An action: simple action, finished, with a lasting result, done by me
which my soul still seeketh, but I have not found: one man among a thousand have I found; but a woman among all those have I not found.
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Ecclesiastes 7:28 מָצָ֔אתִי ma.Tza.ti · An action: simple action, finished, with a lasting result, done by me
which my soul still seeketh, but I have not found: one man among a thousand have I found; but a woman among all those have I not found.
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Ecclesiastes 7:28 מָצָֽאתִי׃ ma.Tza.ti · An action: simple action, finished, with a lasting result, done by me
which my soul still seeketh, but I have not found: one man among a thousand have I found; but a woman among all those have I not found.
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Ecclesiastes 7:29 מָצָ֔אתִי ma.Tza.ti · An action: simple action, finished, with a lasting result, done by me
Behold, this only have I found: that God made man upright; but they have sought out many inventions.
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Ecclesiastes 8:17 לִמְצוֹא֙ lim.tzO' · The “to do” form of an action: simple action
then I beheld all the work of God, that man cannot find out the work that is done under the sun: because however much a man labor to seek it out, yet he shall not find it; yea moreover, though a wise man think to know it, yet shall he not be able to find it.
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Ecclesiastes 8:17 יִמְצָ֑א yim.Tza' · An action: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by him, her or it
then I beheld all the work of God, that man cannot find out the work that is done under the sun: because however much a man labor to seek it out, yet he shall not find it; yea moreover, though a wise man think to know it, yet shall he not be able to find it.
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Ecclesiastes 8:17 לִמְצֹֽא׃ lim.Tzo' · The “to do” form of an action: simple action
then I beheld all the work of God, that man cannot find out the work that is done under the sun: because however much a man labor to seek it out, yet he shall not find it; yea moreover, though a wise man think to know it, yet shall he not be able to find it.
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Ecclesiastes 9:10 תִּמְצָ֧א tim.Tza' · An action: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by him, her or it
Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in Sheol, whither thou goest.
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Ecclesiastes 9:15 וּמָ֣צָא u.Ma.tza' · An action: simple action, and then it will happen, done by him, her or it
Now there was found in it a poor wise man, and he by his wisdom delivered the city; yet no man remembered that same poor man.
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Ecclesiastes 11:1 תִּמְצָאֶֽנּוּ׃ tim.tza.'E.nu · An action: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by you
Cast thy bread upon the waters; for thou shalt find it after many days.
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Ecclesiastes 12:10 לִמְצֹ֖א lim.Tzo' · The “to do” form of an action: simple action
The Preacher sought to find out acceptable words, and that which was written uprightly, even words of truth.
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Song of Solomon 3:1 מְצָאתִֽיו׃ me.tza.Tiv · An action: simple action, finished, with a lasting result, done by me
By night on my bed I sought him whom my soul loveth: I sought him, but I found him not.
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Song of Solomon 3:2 מְצָאתִֽיו׃ me.tza.Tiv · An action: simple action, finished, with a lasting result, done by me
I said, I will rise now, and go about the city; In the streets and in the broad ways I will seek him whom my soul loveth: I sought him, but I found him not.
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Song of Solomon 3:3 מְצָא֙וּנִי֙ me.tza.'U.ni · An action: simple action, finished, with a lasting result, done by them
The watchmen that go about the city found me; To whom I said, Saw ye him whom my soul loveth?
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Song of Solomon 3:4 שֶֽׁמָּצָ֔אתִי she.ma.Tza.ti · An action: simple action, finished, with a lasting result, done by me
It was but a little that I passed from them, When I found him whom my soul loveth: I held him, and would not let him go, Until I had brought him into my mother's house, And into the chamber of her that conceived me.
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Song of Solomon 5:6 מְצָאתִ֔יהוּ me.tza.Ti.hu · An action: simple action, finished, with a lasting result, done by me
I opened to my beloved; But my beloved had withdrawn himself, and was gone. My soul had failed me when he spake: I sought him, but I could not find him; I called him, but he gave me no answer.
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