Ecclesiastes 3:3
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A time to kill, and a time to heal. A time to destroy, and a time to build.

time to kill

Deuteronomy 32:39 See ye that I alone am, and there is no other God besides me: I will kill and I will make to live: I will strike, and I will heal, and there is none that can deliver out of my hand.

1 Samuel 2:6,25 The Lord killeth and maketh alive, he bringeth down to hell, and bringeth back again. . . .

Hosea 6:1,2 In their affliction they will rise early to me: Come, and let us return to the Lord. . . .

a time to heal

Numbers 26:6-9 And Hesron, of whom is the family of the Hesronites: and Charmi, of whom is the family of the Charmites. . . .

Isaiah 38:5 Go and say to Ezechias: Thus saith the Lord the God of David thy father: I have heard thy prayer, and I have seen thy tears: behold I will add to thy days fifteen years:

Jeremiah 33:6 Behold I will close their wounds and give them health, and I will cure them: and I will reveal to them the prayer of peace and truth.

Luke 9:54-56 And when his disciples, James and John, had seen this, they said: Lord, wilt thou that we command fire to come down from heaven and consume them? . . .

Acts 5:15,16 Insomuch that they brought forth the sick into the streets and laid them on beds and couches, that, when Peter came, his shadow at the least might overshadow any of them and they might be delivered from their infirmities. . . .

a time to break

Isaiah 5:5,6 And now I will shew you what I will do to my vineyard. I will take away the hedge thereof, and it shall be wasted: I will break down the wall thereof, and it shall be trodden down. . . .

Isaiah 44:26 That raise up the word of my servant and perform the counsel of my messengers, who say to Jerusalem: Thou shalt be inhabited: and to the cities of Juda: You shall be built, and I will raise up the wastes thereof.

Jeremiah 31:28 And as I have watched over them, to pluck up, and to throw down, and to scatter, and destroy, and afflict: so will I watch over them, to build up, and to plant them, saith the Lord.

Jeremiah 45:4 Thus saith the Lord: Thus shalt thou say to him: Behold, them whom I have built, I do destroy: and them whom I have planted, I do pluck up, and all this land.

Ezekiel 13:14 And I will break down the wall that you have daubed with untempered mortar: and I will make it even with the ground, and the foundation thereof shall be laid bare: and it shall fall, and shall be consumed in the midst thereof: and you shall know that I am the Lord.

Daniel 9:25-27 Know thou, therefore, and take notice: that from the going forth of the word, to build up Jerusalem again, unto Christ, the prince, there shall be seven weeks, and sixty-two weeks: and the street shall be built again, and the walls, in straitness of times. . . .

Zechariah 1:12 And the angel of the Lord answered, and said: O Lord of hosts, how long wilt thou not have mercy on Jerusalem, and on the cities of Juda, with which thou hast been angry? this is now the seventieth year.

Context
To Everything There is a Season
2A time to be born and a time to die. A time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted. 3A time to kill, and a time to heal. A time to destroy, and a time to build.4A time to weep, and a time to laugh. A time to mourn, and a time to dance.…
Cross References
Genesis 9:6
Whosoever shall shed man's blood, his blood shall be shed: for man was made to the image of God.

1 Samuel 2:6
The Lord killeth and maketh alive, he bringeth down to hell, and bringeth back again.

Hosea 6:1
In their affliction they will rise early to me: Come, and let us return to the Lord.

Hosea 6:2
For he hath taken us, and he will heal us: he will strike, and he will cure us.

Lexicon
a time
עֵ֤ת (‘êṯ)
Noun - common singular
Strong's Hebrew 6256: Time, now, when

to kill
לַהֲרוֹג֙ (la·hă·rō·wḡ)
Preposition-l | Verb - Qal - Infinitive construct
Strong's Hebrew 2026: To smite with deadly intent

and a time
וְעֵ֣ת (wə·‘êṯ)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - common singular
Strong's Hebrew 6256: Time, now, when

to heal,
לִרְפּ֔וֹא (lir·pō·w)
Preposition-l | Verb - Qal - Infinitive construct
Strong's Hebrew 7495: To mend, to cure

a time
עֵ֥ת (‘êṯ)
Noun - common singular
Strong's Hebrew 6256: Time, now, when

to break down
לִפְר֖וֹץ (lip̄·rō·wṣ)
Preposition-l | Verb - Qal - Infinitive construct
Strong's Hebrew 6555: To break through

and a time
וְעֵ֥ת (wə·‘êṯ)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - common singular
Strong's Hebrew 6256: Time, now, when

to build,
לִבְנֽוֹת׃ (liḇ·nō·wṯ)
Preposition-l | Verb - Qal - Infinitive construct
Strong's Hebrew 1129: To build


Additional Translations
a time to kill and a time to heal, a time to break down and a time to build,A time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up;

a time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up;

a time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to pull down, and a time to build up;

A time to kill, and a time to heal; A time to break down, and a time to build up;

a time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up;

A time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up;

a time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up;

A time to slay, And a time to heal, A time to break down, And a time to build up.
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