Ecclesiastes 3:2

In 11 translations

BSB

a time to be born and a time to die, a time to plant and a time to uproot,

KJV

A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted;to be…: Heb. to bear

WEB

a time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted;

ASV

a time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted;

LSV

A time to bring forth, || And a time to die. A time to plant, || And a time to eradicate the planted.

YLT

A time to bring forth, And a time to die. A time to plant, And a time to eradicate the planted.

DBY

A time to be born, and a time to die; A time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted;

DRC

A time to be born and a time to die. A time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted.

GNV

A time to bee borne, and a time to die: a time to plant, and a time to plucke vp that which is planted.

JPS

A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted;

LXXE

A time of birth, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up what has been planted;

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Words in brackets are English the glossers added; the Hebrew has no word for them, and they can carry a choice of tense or meaning.

Original-language editions

WLC

עֵ֥ת לָלֶ֖דֶת וְעֵ֣ת לָמ֑וּת עֵ֣ת לָטַ֔עַת וְעֵ֖ת לַעֲק֥וֹר נָטֽוּעַ׃

LXX-Br

Καιρὸς τοῦ τεκεῖν καὶ καιρὸς τοῦ ἀποθανεῖν, καιρὸς τοῦ φυτεῦσαι καὶ καιρὸς τοῦ ἐκτίλαι τὸ πεφυτευμένον·

In the reference works topics that cite this verse

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Cross-references most cited first

• Hebrews 9:27Just as man is appointed to die once, and after that to face judgment,
• Job 14:5Since his days are determined and the number of his months is with You, and since You have set limits that he cannot exceed,
• Matthew 15:13But Jesus replied, “Every plant that My heavenly Father has not planted will be pulled up by its roots.
• Jeremiah 18:7–10At any time I might announce that a nation or kingdom will be uprooted, torn down, and destroyed. But if that nation I warned turns from its evil, then I will relent of the disaster I had planned to bring. And if at…
• Job 7:1“Is not man consigned to labor on earth? Are not his days like those of a hired hand?
• John 16:21A woman has pain in childbirth because her time has come; but when she brings forth her child, she forgets her anguish because of her joy that a child has been born into the world.
• Isaiah 38:1In those days Hezekiah became mortally ill. The prophet Isaiah son of Amoz came to him and said, “This is what the LORD says: ‘Put your house in order, for you are about to die; you will not recover.’”
• Luke 1:20And now you will be silent and unable to speak until the day this comes to pass, because you did not believe my words, which will be fulfilled at their proper time.”
• Galatians 4:4But when the time had fully come, God sent His Son, born of a woman, born under the law,
• Jeremiah 45:4Thus Jeremiah was to say to Baruch: “This is what the LORD says: Throughout the land I will demolish what I have built and uproot what I have planted.
• Acts 7:20At that time Moses was born, and he was beautiful in the sight of God. For three months he was nurtured in his father’s house.
• Acts 7:17As the time drew near for God to fulfill His promise to Abraham, our people in Egypt increased greatly in number.
• Genesis 17:21But I will establish My covenant with Isaac, whom Sarah will bear to you at this time next year.”
• 1 Samuel 2:5The well-fed hire themselves out for food, but the starving hunger no more. The barren woman gives birth to seven, but she who has many sons pines away.
• Isaiah 54:1“Shout for joy, O barren woman, who bears no children; break forth in song and cry aloud, you who have never travailed; because more are the children of the desolate woman than of her who has a husband,” says the LORD.
• Numbers 27:12–14Then the LORD said to Moses, “Go up this mountain of the Abarim range and see the land that I have given the Israelites. After you have seen it, you too will be gathered to your people, as your brother Aaron was; for…

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