Striving
רַעְיוֹןStrong’s H7475rayon (ra-yon)
Appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Rayon is the Hebrew word usually translated “striving of”. It appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament.
“And I gave my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly: I perceived that this also is vexation of spirit.”
Meaning
- Longing, striving
How it's translated
- a striving of 1
- and in striving of 1
- and a striving of 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Ecclesiastes 3
1 book in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Ecclesiastes 2:22For what hath man of all his labour, and of the vexation of his heart, wherein he hath laboured under the sun?
- Ecclesiastes 4:16There is no end of all the people, even of all that have been before them: they also that come after shall not rejoice in him. Surely this also is vanity and vexation of spirit.
Hebrew dictionary
רַעְיוֹן rayon · striving
longing, striving Aramaic equivalent: ra.yon (רַעְיוֹן "thought" H7476)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “striving” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
STRIVING, participle present
tense Making efforts; exerting the power of body or mind with earnestness; contending.
All definitions and other forms of “striving”
STRIVING, noun
The act of making efforts; contest; contention.
- “Avoid foolish questions and genealogies and contentions, and strivings about the law” Titus 3:9
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.