Ecclesiastes 2:6
Strong's Lexicon
I built
עָשִׂ֥יתִי (‘ā·śî·ṯî)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - first person common singular
Strong's Hebrew 6213: 1) to do, fashion, accomplish, make 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to do, work, make, produce 1a1a) to do 1a1b) to work 1a1c) to deal (with) 1a1d) to act, act with effect, effect 1a2) to make 1a2a) to make 1a2b) to produce 1a2c) to prepare 1a2d) to make (an offering) 1a2e) to attend to, put in order 1a2f) to observe, celebrate 1a2g) to acquire (property) 1a2h) to appoint, ordain, institute 1a2i) to bring about 1a2j) to use 1a2k) to spend, pass 1b) (Niphal) 1b1) to be done 1b2) to be made 1b3) to be produced 1b4) to be offered 1b5) to be observed 1b6) to be used 1c) (Pual) to be made 2) (Piel) to press, squeeze

לִ֖י ()
Preposition | first person common singular
Strong's Hebrew :

reservoirs
בְּרֵכ֣וֹת (bə·rê·ḵō·wṯ)
Noun - feminine plural construct
Strong's Hebrew 1295: 1) pool, pond

מָ֑יִם (mā·yim)
Noun - masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 4325: 1) water, waters 1a) water 1b) water of the feet, urine 1c) of danger, violence, transitory things, refreshment (fig.)

to water
לְהַשְׁק֣וֹת (lə·haš·qō·wṯ)
Preposition-l | Verb - Hifil - Infinitive construct
Strong's Hebrew 8248: 1) to give to drink, irrigate, drink, water, cause to drink water 1a) (Hiphil) 1a1) to water, irrigate 1a2) to water, give drink to 1b) (Pual) to be watered 1c) (Niphal) variant

מֵהֶ֔ם (mê·hem)
Preposition-m | Pronoun - third person masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 1992: 1) they, these, the same, who

my groves
יַ֖עַר (ya·‘ar)
Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's Hebrew 3293: 1) forest, wood, thicket, wooded height

of flourishing
צוֹמֵ֥חַ (ṣō·w·mê·aḥ)
Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine singular construct
Strong's Hebrew 6779: 1) to sprout, spring up, grow up 1a)(Qal) 1a1) to sprout, spring up 1a1a) of plants 1a1b) of hair 1a1c) of speech (fig.) 1b) (Piel) to grow abundantly or thickly 1c) (Hiphil) 1c1) to cause to grow 1c2) to cause to sprout

trees.
עֵצִֽים׃ (‘ê·ṣîm)
Noun - masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 6086: 1) tree, wood, timber, stock, plank, stalk, stick, gallows 1a) tree, trees 1b) wood, pieces of wood, gallows, firewood, cedar-wood, woody flax

Parallel Strong's
Berean Study Bible
I built reservoirs to water my groves of flourishing trees.

Young's Literal Translation
I made for me pools of water, to water from them a forest shooting forth trees.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
I constructed reservoirs of water for myself from which to irrigate a grove of flourishing trees.

New American Standard Bible
I made ponds of water for myself from which to irrigate a forest of growing trees.

King James Bible
I made me pools of water, to water therewith the wood that bringeth forth trees:
Parallel Verses
New International Version
I made reservoirs to water groves of flourishing trees.

New Living Translation
I built reservoirs to collect the water to irrigate my many flourishing groves.

English Standard Version
I made myself pools from which to water the forest of growing trees.

New American Standard Bible
I made ponds of water for myself from which to irrigate a forest of growing trees.

King James Bible
I made me pools of water, to water therewith the wood that bringeth forth trees:

Holman Christian Standard Bible
I constructed reservoirs of water for myself from which to irrigate a grove of flourishing trees.

International Standard Version
I built for myself water reservoirs to irrigate forests that produce trees.

NET Bible
I constructed pools of water for myself, to irrigate my grove of flourishing trees.

American Standard Version
I made me pools of water, to water therefrom the forest where trees were reared;

English Revised Version
I made me pools of water, to water therefrom the forest where trees were reared:

Young's Literal Translation
I made for me pools of water, to water from them a forest shooting forth trees.
















Cross References
Nehemiah 2:8
And a letter unto Asaph the keeper of the king's forest, that he may give me timber to make beams for the gates of the palace which appertained to the house, and for the wall of the city, and for the house that I shall enter into. And the king granted me, according to the good hand of my God upon me.

Nehemiah 2:14
Then I went on to the gate of the fountain, and to the king's pool: but there was no place for the beast that was under me to pass.

Nehemiah 3:15
But the gate of the fountain repaired Shallun the son of Colhozeh, the ruler of part of Mizpah; he built it, and covered it, and set up the doors thereof, the locks thereof, and the bars thereof, and the wall of the pool of Siloah by the king's garden, and unto the stairs that go down from the city of David.

Nehemiah 3:16
After him repaired Nehemiah the son of Azbuk, the ruler of the half part of Bethzur, unto the place over against the sepulchres of David, and to the pool that was made, and unto the house of the mighty.

Ecclesiastes 1:1
The words of the Preacher, the son of David, king in Jerusalem.

Ecclesiastes 2:5
I made me gardens and orchards, and I planted trees in them of all kind of fruits:

Ecclesiastes 2:4
I made me great works; I builded me houses; I planted me vineyards:

Ecclesiastes 2:3
I sought in mine heart to give myself unto wine, yet acquainting mine heart with wisdom; and to lay hold on folly, till I might see what was that good for the sons of men, which they should do under the heaven all the days of their life.

Ecclesiastes 2:7
I got me servants and maidens, and had servants born in my house; also I had great possessions of great and small cattle above all that were in Jerusalem before me:

Ecclesiastes 2:8
I gathered me also silver and gold, and the peculiar treasure of kings and of the provinces: I gat me men singers and women singers, and the delights of the sons of men, as musical instruments, and that of all sorts.

Ecclesiastes 2:9
So I was great, and increased more than all that were before me in Jerusalem: also my wisdom remained with me.
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