Ecclesiastes 6:11
King James Version
10 Jun 2026
“Seeing there be many things that increase vanity, what is man the better?”
דָּבָר
In Hebrew, dabar is not just a word spoken — it is a word that accomplishes something. God's dabar does not return empty. The psalmist says this word is a lamp to his feet — not a floodlight revealing everything ahead, but enough light for the next step. That is faith.
מָה
what?
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מָה
properly, interrogative what? (including how? why? when?); but also exclamation, what! (including how!), or indefinitely what (including whatever, and even relatively, that which); often used with prefixes in various adverbial or conjunctive senses
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הֶבֶל
futility
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הֶבֶל
Vanity, breath, emptiness. Hebel. A breath that vanishes, emptiness. Ecclesiastes says everything apart from God is hebel. It looks solid but it is vapor. Only God endures.
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יוֹתֵר
advantage
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יוֹתֵר
properly, redundant; hence, over and above, as adjective, noun, adverb or conjunction
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יֵשׁ
there
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יֵשׁ
there is or are (or any other form of the verb to be, as may suit the connection)
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רָבָה
certainly to increase
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רָבָה
to increase (in whatever respect)
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