Ecclesiastes 9:14
Parallel Strong's
Berean Study Bible
There was a small city with few men. A mighty king came against it, surrounded it, and built large siege ramps against it.

Young's 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;

King James Bible
[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:

Hebrew
There was a small
קְטַנָּ֔ה (qə·ṭan·nāh)
Adjective - feminine singular
Strong's 6996: Small, young, unimportant

city
עִ֣יר (‘îr)
Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 5892: Excitement

with few men.
מְעָ֑ט (mə·‘āṭ)
Adjective - masculine singular
Strong's 4592: A little, fewness, a few

A mighty
גָּדוֹל֙ (gā·ḏō·wl)
Adjective - masculine singular
Strong's 1419: Great, older, insolent

king
מֶ֤לֶךְ (me·leḵ)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 4428: A king

came
וּבָֽא־ (ū·ḇā-)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 935: To come in, come, go in, go

against it,
אֵלֶ֜יהָ (’ê·le·hā)
Preposition | third person feminine singular
Strong's 413: Near, with, among, to

surrounded it,
וְסָבַ֣ב (wə·sā·ḇaḇ)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 5437: To turn about, go around, surround

and built
וּבָנָ֥ה (ū·ḇā·nāh)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 1129: To build

large
גְּדֹלִֽים׃ (gə·ḏō·lîm)
Adjective - masculine plural
Strong's 1419: Great, older, insolent

siege ramps
מְצוֹדִ֥ים (mə·ṣō·w·ḏîm)
Noun - masculine plural
Strong's 4685: A net, a, fastness, tower

against it.
עָלֶ֖יהָ (‘ā·le·hā)
Preposition | third person feminine singular
Strong's 5921: Above, over, upon, against

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           
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