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Race

מֵרוֹץStrong’s H4793

merots (me-rots)

Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament

In short

Merots is the Hebrew word usually translated “race”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.

“I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all.”
Ecclesiastes 9:11 KJV
Meaning
  1. Running, race, course
How it's translated
  • the race 1

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most
  • Ecclesiastes 1

1 book in all.

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    Hebrew dictionary

    מֵרוֹץ merots · race

    running, race, course

    From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).

    Webster's 1828 Dictionary

    How the English word “race” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

    RACE, noun

    [Latin radix and radius having the same original. This word coincides in origin with rod, ray, radiate, etc.]

    1. The lineage of a family, or continued series of descendants from a parent who is called the stock.
    2. A generation; a family of descendants.
    3. A particular breed; as a race of mules; a race of horses; a race of sheep.
    4. A root; as race-ginger, ginger in the root or not pulverized.
    All definitions and other forms of “race”
    1. A particular strength or taste of wine; a kind of tartness.

    RACE, noun

    [Latin gradior, gressus, with the prefix g. Eng. ride.]

    1. A running; a rapid course or motion, either on the feet, on horseback or in a carriage, etc.; particularly, a contest in running; a running in competition for a prize.
    2. Any sunning with speed.
    3. A progress; a course; a movement or progression of any kind.“Let us run with patience the race that is set before us” Hebrews 12:1
    4. Course; train; process; as the prosecution and race of the war. [Not now used.]
    5. A strong or rapid current of water, or the channel or passage for such a current; as a mill-race.
    6. By way of distinction, a contest in the running of horses; generally in the plural.

    RACE, verb intransitive

    To run swiftly; to run or contend in running. The animals raced over the ground.

      Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.

      Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.