Ecclesiastes 9:14

NASB

Ecclesiastes 9:14

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New American Standard Bible

There was a small city with few men in it and a great king came to it, surrounded it and constructed large siegeworks against it.

King James Version

There was a little city, and few men within it; and there came a great king against it, and besieged it, and built great bulwarks against it:

Holman Bible

There was a small city with few men in it. A great king came against it, surrounded it, and built large siege works against it.

International Standard Version

There was a little city with few men in it. A great king came against it, surrounded it, and built massive siege ramps against it.

A Conservative Version

There was a little city, and few men within it. And there came a great king against it, and besieged it, and built great bulwarks against it.

American Standard Version

There was a little city, and few men within it; and there came a great king against it, and besieged it, and built great bulwarks against it.

Amplified

There was a little city with few men in it and a great king came against it and besieged it and built great battlements against it.

Bible in Basic English

There was a little town and the number of its men was small, and there came a great king against it and made an attack on it, building works of war round about it.

Darby Translation

There was a little city, and few men within it; and there came a great king against it, and encompassed it, and built great bulwarks against it:

Julia Smith Translation

A little city, and men in it few; and a great king came against it, and surrounded it, and built against it great entrenchments:

King James 2000

There was a little city, and few men within it; and there came a great king against it, and besieged it, and built great bulwarks against it:

Lexham Expanded Bible

[There was] a small city with few people in it. A great king came and besieged it, building great siege works against it.

Modern King James verseion

There was a little city, and few men in it; and a great king came against it and besieged it, and built huge bulwarks against it.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

There was a little city, and a few men within it: so there came a great king and besieged it, and made great bulwarks against it.

NET Bible

There was once a small city with a few men in it, and a mighty king attacked it, besieging it and building strong siege works against it.

New Heart English Bible

There was a little city, and few men within it; and a great king came against it, besieged it, and built great siege works against it.

The Emphasized Bible

A little city, and men therein few, - and there came against it a great king, and surrounded it, and built against it large siege-works;

Webster

There was a little city, and few men within it; and there came a great king against it, and besieged it, and built great bulwarks against it:

World English Bible

There was a little city, and few men within it; and a great king came against it, besieged it, and built great bulwarks against it.

Youngs Literal Translation

A little city, and few men in it, and a great king hath come unto it, and hath surrounded it, and hath built against it great bulwarks;

Themes

Cities » Often insignificant

Ingratitude » Of man to man » Citizens

War » Requires

Topics

Few People

Interlinear

English(KJV)

Strong's

Root Form

Definition

Usage

There was a little

H6996

קטן קטן
Qatan

small, little, youngest, younger, least, less, lesser, little one, smallest, small things, young

Usage: 101

city

H5892

עיר ער עיר
`iyr

city, town, every one, variant

Usage: 1094

and few

H4592

מעט מעט
M@`at

little, few, while, almost, small thing, small, some, matter, soon, fewer, fewest, lightly, very, little way, worth

Usage: 101

men

H582

אנושׁ
'enowsh

man, certain, husbands, some, merchantmen, persons,

Usage: 42

within it and there came

H935

come, bring, ... in, enter, go, carry, ...down, pass, ...out,

Usage: 0

a great

H1419

גּדל גּדול
Gadowl

great, high, greater, loud, greatest, elder, great man, mighty, eldest,

Usage: 528

king

H4428

מלך
melek

king, royal, Hammelech, Malcham, Moloch

Usage: 2521

against it, and besieged

H5437

סבב
Cabab

about, compass, turn, turn away, remove, returned, round, side, turn aside, turn back, beset, driven, compass in,

Usage: 157

it, and built

H1129

בּנה
Banah

build, build up, builder, made, built again, repair, set up, have children, obtain children +, surely

Usage: 376

great

H1419

גּדל גּדול
Gadowl

great, high, greater, loud, greatest, elder, great man, mighty, eldest,

Usage: 528

bulwarks

H4685

מצדה מצודה מצוד
Matsowd

net, snare, bulwark, munition, hold

Usage: 5

References

Fausets

Nathan

Sheba (1)

Hastings

Ecclesiastes

Word Count of 20 Translations in Ecclesiastes 9:14

Verse Info

Bible Rank: 7519
Ecclesiastes Rank: 81
1 Topic
3 Themes
2 Cross References
1 Reading
Interlinear
1 Phrase
3 References

Context Readings

Wisdom'Although Vulnerable'Is Superior To Power

¹³ Also this I came to see as wisdom under the sun, and it impressed me. ¹⁴ There was a small city with few men in it and a great king came to it, surrounded it and constructed large siegeworks against it. ¹⁵ But there was found in it a poor wise man and he delivered the city by his wisdom. Yet no one remembered that poor man.

Phrases

Great King

Cross References

2 Samuel 20:15-22

They came and besieged him in Abel Beth-maacah, and they cast up a siege ramp against the city, and it stood by the rampart; and all the people who were with Joab were wreaking destruction in order to topple the wall.

2 Kings 6:24-20

Now it came about after this, that Ben-hadad king of Aram gathered all his army and went up and besieged Samaria.

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