Ecclesiastes 3:8
Strong's Lexicon
a time
עֵ֤ת (‘êṯ)
Noun - common singular
Strong's Hebrew 6256: 1) time 1a) time (of an event) 1b) time (usual) 1c) experiences, fortunes 1d) occurrence, occasion

to love
לֶֽאֱהֹב֙ (le·’ĕ·hōḇ)
Preposition-l | Verb - Qal - Infinitive construct
Strong's Hebrew 157: 1) to love 1a) (Qal) 1a1) human love for another, includes family, and sexual 1a2) human appetite for objects such as food, drink, sleep, wisdom 1a3) human love for or to God 1a4) act of being a friend 1a4a) lover (participle) 1a4b) friend (participle) 1a5) God's love toward man 1a5a) to individual men 1a5b) to people Israel 1a5c) to righteousness 1b) (Niphal) 1b1) lovely (participle) 1b2) loveable (participle) 1c) (Piel) 1c1) friends 1c2) lovers (fig. of adulterers) 2) to like

and a time
וְעֵ֣ת (wə·‘êṯ)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - common singular
Strong's Hebrew 6256: 1) time 1a) time (of an event) 1b) time (usual) 1c) experiences, fortunes 1d) occurrence, occasion

to hate,
לִשְׂנֹ֔א (liś·nō)
Preposition-l | Verb - Qal - Infinitive construct
Strong's Hebrew 8130: 1) to hate, be hateful 1a) (Qal) to hate 1a1) of man 1a2) of God 1a3) hater, one hating, enemy (participle) (subst) 1b) (Niphal) to be hated 1c) (Piel) hater (participle) 1c1) of persons, nations, God, wisdom

a time
עֵ֥ת (‘êṯ)
Noun - common singular construct
Strong's Hebrew 6256: 1) time 1a) time (of an event) 1b) time (usual) 1c) experiences, fortunes 1d) occurrence, occasion

for war
מִלְחָמָ֖ה (mil·ḥā·māh)
Noun - feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 4421: 1) battle, war

and a time
וְעֵ֥ת (wə·‘êṯ)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - common singular construct
Strong's Hebrew 6256: 1) time 1a) time (of an event) 1b) time (usual) 1c) experiences, fortunes 1d) occurrence, occasion

for peace.
שָׁלֽוֹם׃ (šā·lō·wm)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 7965: 1) completeness, soundness, welfare, peace 1a) completeness (in number) 1b) safety, soundness (in body) 1c) welfare, health, prosperity 1d) peace, quiet, tranquillity, contentment 1e) peace, friendship 1e1) of human relationships 1e2) with God especially in covenant relationship 1f) peace (from war) 1g) peace (as adjective)

Parallel Strong's
Berean Study Bible
a time to love and a time to hate, a time for war and a time for peace.

Young's Literal Translation
A time to love, And a time to hate. A time of war, And a time of peace.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
a time to love and a time to hate; a time for war and a time for peace.

New American Standard Bible
A time to love and a time to hate; A time for war and a time for peace.

King James Bible
A time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace.
Parallel Verses
New International Version
a time to love and a time to hate, a time for war and a time for peace.

New Living Translation
A time to love and a time to hate. A time for war and a time for peace.

English Standard Version
a time to love, and a time to hate; a time for war, and a time for peace.

New American Standard Bible
A time to love and a time to hate; A time for war and a time for peace.

King James Bible
A time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
a time to love and a time to hate; a time for war and a time for peace.

International Standard Version
a time to love, and a time to hate; a time for war, and a time for peace.

NET Bible
A time to love, and a time to hate; a time for war, and a time for peace.

American Standard Version
a time to love, and a time to hate; a time for war, and a time for peace.

English Revised Version
a time to love, and a time to hate; a time for war, and a time for peace.

Young's Literal Translation
A time to love, And a time to hate. A time of war, And a time of peace.
















Cross References
Psalm 101:3
I will set no wicked thing before mine eyes: I hate the work of them that turn aside; it shall not cleave to me.

Proverbs 13:5
A righteous man hateth lying: but a wicked man is loathsome, and cometh to shame.

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

Ecclesiastes 3:7
A time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;

Ecclesiastes 3:6
A time to get, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away;

Ecclesiastes 3:5
A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;

Ecclesiastes 3:9
What profit hath he that worketh in that wherein he laboureth?

Ecclesiastes 3:10
I have seen the travail, which God hath given to the sons of men to be exercised in it.

Ecclesiastes 3:11
He hath made every thing beautiful in his time: also he hath set the world in their heart, so that no man can find out the work that God maketh from the beginning to the end.
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