The water that goes to the sea…- Ecclesiastes 1:7

Well, my friends, after a weekend with a lot of rain in Jerusalem, I decided to write on the water today.

Rain

The water in the bible has a lot of meanings, but today we are going to look at one verse in the book of Ecclesiastes, a verse that always bring into my mind a lot of questions:

"כָּל-הַנְּחָלִים הֹלְכִים אֶל-הַיָּם, וְהַיָּם אֵינֶנּוּ מָלֵא; אֶל-מְקוֹם, שֶׁהַנְּחָלִים הֹלְכִים–שָׁם הֵם שָׁבִים, לָלָכֶת"

"All the rivers run into the sea, yet the sea is not full; unto the place whither the rivers go, thither they go again.

This verse speak about the water, but it seems to be that the water here is not just the liquid , the H20, it’s also a symbol to our life, we are all going in different ways, but the end and the beginning are the same.

Furthermore, we are all going to a place that is not going to be perfect because only one is perfect and endless, this is God!

The sea will never be full because it can’t, like the stories of other people, fight against the Almighty.

The water and the sea

There’s a program in the T.V. that my small kid likes to see, the circle of life, and this are the same situation with the water, where they go they will come back, what a beautiful metaphor…

The process is different with every one of us, but in the edges we are all one!

Main phrases of the post + transcription + translation

Hebrew

Transcription

Translation

קָצֶה

qātse

Edge

בִּגְלַל

biglal

Because of

מֻשְׁלָם

mušlām

Perfect

יָתֵר עַל כֵּן

Yātēr ‘al kēn

Furthermore

נוֹזֵל

nôzēl

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One Response to The water that goes to the sea…- Ecclesiastes 1:7

  1. Thanks for this excellent blog about the Hebrew of Ecclesiastes. Isn’t it amazing that Kohelet wrote about the water cycle, which has only really been fully understood in recent times, about 3000 years ago?! The way waters run to the sea, evaporate, get picked up as clouds, then fall on the land, and go into rivers again, is what Solomon is saying. The Hebrew Bible contains many similar things written thousands of years ago, before they were understood, showing that the Hebrew Bible is inspired. All Bible believers should study Hebrew!

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