H7475 רַעְיוֹן (raʻyôwn) rah-yone'

Hebrew

Noun (Masculine, Hebrew)

Quick Definition

striving

Strong's Definition

desire

Derivation: from H7462 (רָעָה) in the sense of H7469 (רְעוּת);

KJV Usage: vexation.

TWOT Reference: 2187c

Outline of Biblical Usage

1) longing, striving

Septuagint (LXX) Greek Equivalents

This Hebrew word is translated by the following Greek words in the Septuagint:

G5274 G5283

STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon

רַעְיוֹן (ra.yon) — striving. longing, striving Aramaic equivalent: ra.yon (רַעְיוֹן "thought" H7476)

UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew

רַעְיֹון (H7475 · A7476)

noun m · רֵעַ · רְעוּת

Think

thought, thinking = the unspoken content of one's own thinking and reasoning

ECC 2:22 · DAN 2:29 · DAN 2:30 · DAN 4:16 · DAN 5:6 · DAN 5:10 · DAN 7:28

noun m · רעה

Fail | ≈ הֶבֶל

Collocation: רַעְיֹון רוּחַ

to pursue the wind literally: striving after wind; hence: = action by which humans are actively looking to be engaged in activities that serve no purpose

ECC 1:17 · ECC 4:16

Reinier de Blois

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon

רַעְיוֹן n.[m.] id. [t.dm.ac] base

Bible Occurrences (3)

1:17 2:22 4:16

Ecclesiastes 1:17

So I set my mind to know wisdom [and] madness and folly; I learned that this, too, is a pursuit of the wind.

Ecclesiastes 2:22

For what does a man get for all the toil and striving with which he labors under the sun?

Ecclesiastes 4:16

There is no limit to all the people... who were before them. Yet [the successor] will not be celebrated by those who come even later. This too... is futile and a pursuit of the wind.