Parallel Verses
New American Standard Bible
A time to embrace and a time to shun embracing.
King James Version
A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;
Holman Bible
a time to embrace and a time to avoid embracing;
International Standard Version
a time to scatter stones, and a time to gather stones; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;
A Conservative Version
a time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together, a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing,
American Standard Version
a time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;
Amplified
A time to throw away stones and a time to gather stones;
A time to embrace and a time to refrain from embracing.
Bible in Basic English
A time to take stones away and a time to get stones together; a time for kissing and a time to keep from kissing;
Darby Translation
A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; A time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;
Julia Smith Translation
A time to cast away stones, and a time to collect stones a time to embrace, and a time to be far from embracing:
King James 2000
A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;
Lexham Expanded Bible
a time to throw away stones and a time to gather stones; a time to embrace and a time to refrain from embracing;
Modern King James verseion
a time to throw away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; A time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;
NET Bible
A time to throw away stones, and a time to gather stones; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;
New Heart English Bible
a time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;
The Emphasized Bible
A time to cast away stones, and a time to heap up stones, - A time to embrace, and a time to be far from loving embrace;
Webster
A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;
World English Bible
a time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;
Youngs Literal Translation
A time to cast away stones, And a time to heap up stones. A time to embrace, And a time to be far from embracing.
Interlinear
Shalak
'eben
אבן
'eben
stone, weight, divers weights + , hailstones, stony, carbuncle , hailstones , hailstones , headstone, masons , plummet, slingstones
Usage: 272
References
Fausets
Hastings
Word Count of 20 Translations in Ecclesiastes 3:5
Verse Info
Context Readings
God Has Ordained The Ebb And Flow Of Human Activities
4
a time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance;
5
A time to embrace and a time to shun embracing.
Phrases
Cross References
2 Kings 3:25
And they beat down the cities, and on every good piece of land each man cast his stone and filled it, and they stopped all the fountains of water and felled all the good trees until they left their stones only in Kirharaseth, for the slingers went about it and smote it.
Joel 2:16
gather the people, sanctify the meeting, assemble the elders, gather the children and those that suck the breasts; let the bridegroom go forth of his chamber and the bride out of her closet.
Exodus 19:15
And he said unto the people, Be ready against the third day; come not at your women.
Joshua 4:3-9
and command them, saying, Take from here of the midst of Jordan, out of the place where the priests' feet stood firm, twelve stones, and ye shall carry them over with you and leave them in the lodging place, where ye shall lodge this night.
Joshua 10:27
And at the time of the going down of the sun, Joshua commanded that they take them down off the trees and cast them into the cave in which they had been hid, and they laid great stones in the cave's mouth, which remain until this very day.
1 Samuel 21:4-5
And the priest answered David and said, There is no common bread under my hand; there is only sacred bread, which I will give thee if the young men have kept themselves at least from women.
2 Samuel 18:17-18
And they took Absalom and cast him into a great pit in the forest and laid a very great heap of stones upon him; and all Israel fled each one to his tent.
Song of Songs 2:6-7
His left hand is under my head, and his right hand embraces me.
1 Corinthians 7:5
Do not defraud one another, except it be with mutual consent for a time, that ye may give yourselves to fasting and prayer and come together again, that Satan not tempt you for your incontinency.