Ecclesiastes 12:2
Parallel Strong's
Berean Study Bible
before the light of the sun, moon, and stars is darkened, and the clouds return after the rain,

Young's Literal Translation
While that the sun is not darkened, and the light, And the moon, and the stars, And the thick clouds returned after the rain.

King James Bible
While the sun, or the light, or the moon, or the stars, be not darkened, nor the clouds return after the rain:

Hebrew
before
עַ֠ד (‘aḏ)
Preposition
Strong's 5704: As far as, even to, up to, until, while

the sunlight,
הַשֶּׁ֙מֶשׁ֙ (haš·še·meš)
Article | Noun - common singular
Strong's 8121: The sun, the east, a ray, a notched battlement

moon,
וְהַיָּרֵ֖חַ (wə·hay·yā·rê·aḥ)
Conjunctive waw, Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 3394: The moon

and stars
וְהַכּוֹכָבִ֑ים (wə·hak·kō·w·ḵā·ḇîm)
Conjunctive waw, Article | Noun - masculine plural
Strong's 3556: A star, a prince

are darkened,
תֶחְשַׁ֤ךְ (ṯeḥ·šaḵ)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person feminine singular
Strong's 2821: To be dark, to darken

and the clouds
הֶעָבִ֖ים (he·‘ā·ḇîm)
Article | Noun - common plural
Strong's 5645: An envelope, darkness, a, cloud, a copse

return
וְשָׁ֥בוּ (wə·šā·ḇū)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - third person common plural
Strong's 7725: To turn back, in, to retreat, again

after
אַחַ֥ר (’a·ḥar)
Preposition
Strong's 310: The hind or following part

the rain,
הַגָּֽשֶׁם׃ (hag·gā·šem)
Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 1653: Rain, shower

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           
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