Longing
רְעוּתStrong’s H7469reut (re-ut)
Appears in 7 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Reut is the Hebrew word usually translated “striving of”. It appears in 7 verses of the Old Testament.
“I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and, behold, all is vanity and vexation of spirit.”
Meaning
- Longing, striving
How it's translated
- and striving of 7
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Ecclesiastes 7
1 book in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Ecclesiastes 2:11Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labour that I had laboured to do: and, behold, all was vanity and vexation of spirit, and there was no profit under the sun.
- Ecclesiastes 2:17Therefore I hated life; because the work that is wrought under the sun is grievous unto me: for all is vanity and vexation of spirit.
- Ecclesiastes 2:26For God giveth to a man that is good in his sight wisdom, and knowledge, and joy: but to the sinner he giveth travail, to gather and to heap up, that he may give to him that is good before God. This also is vanity and vexation of spirit.
- Ecclesiastes 4:4Again, I considered all travail, and every right work, that for this a man is envied of his neighbour. This is also vanity and vexation of spirit.
- Ecclesiastes 4:6Better is an handful with quietness, than both the hands full with travail and vexation of spirit.
- Ecclesiastes 6:9Better is the sight of the eyes than the wandering of the desire: this is also vanity and vexation of spirit.
Hebrew dictionary
רְעוּת reut · longing
longing, striving Aramaic equivalent: re.ut (רְעוּ "pleasure" H7470)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “longing” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
LONG'ING, participle present
tense Earnestly desiring; having a craving or preternatural appetite.
All definitions and other forms of “longing”
LONG'ING, noun
An eager desire; a craving or preternatural appetite.
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.