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Ecclesiastes 3:8

A time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace.

KJV

Tempus dilectionis, et tempus odii ; tempus belli, et tempus pacis.

Vulgate

καιρὸς τοῦ φιλῆσαι καὶ καιρὸς τοῦ μισῆσαι, καιρὸς πολέμου καὶ καιρὸς εἰρήνης.

LXX

a time to love, and a time to hate; a time for war, and a time for peace.

ASV

עֵ֤ת לֶֽ/אֱהֹב֙ וְ/עֵ֣ת לִ/שְׂנֹ֔א עֵ֥ת מִלְחָמָ֖ה וְ/עֵ֥ת שָׁלֽוֹם

Hebrew

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In the original Hebrew

5 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.

אֹהֵ֣ב
'hb
verb · 209×
י
y
verb · 148×
מִּלְחָמָ֔ה
mlchmh
noun · 316×
עֵ֣ת
't
verb · 293×
שָׁלֽוֹם
shlvm
noun · 235×

Historic Christian voices

3 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

Cross-references

  • 1Kgs 5:4 — But now the LORD my God hath given me rest on every side, so that there is neither adversary nor evil occurrent.
  • 2Chr 19:2 — And Jehu the son of Hanani the seer went out to meet him, and said to king Jehoshaphat, Shouldest thou help the ungodly, and love them that hate the LORD? therefore is wrath upon thee from before the
  • 2Chr 20:1 — It came to pass after this also, that the children of Moab, and the children of Ammon, and with them other beside the Ammonites, came against Jehoshaphat to battle.
  • 2Sam 10:6 — And when the children of Ammon saw that they stank before David, the children of Ammon sent and hired the Syrians of Bethrehob, and the Syrians of Zoba, twenty thousand footmen, and of king Maacah a t
  • 2Sam 11:1 — And it came to pass, after the year was expired, at the time when kings go forth to battle, that David sent Joab, and his servants with him, and all Israel; and they destroyed the children of Ammon, a
  • Eph 3:19 — And to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God.
  • Eph 5:25 — Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;
  • Eph 5:28 — So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself.
  • Ezek 16:8 — Now when I passed by thee, and looked upon thee, behold, thy time was the time of love; and I spread my skirt over thee, and covered thy nakedness: yea, I sware unto thee, and entered into a covenant
  • Gen 14:14 — And when Abram heard that his brother was taken captive, he armed his trained servants, born in his own house, three hundred and eighteen, and pursued them unto Dan.
  • Josh 8:1 — And the LORD said unto Joshua, Fear not, neither be thou dismayed: take all the people of war with thee, and arise, go up to Ai: see, I have given into thy hand the king of Ai, and his people, and his
  • Josh 11:23 — So Joshua took the whole land, according to all that the LORD said unto Moses; and Joshua gave it for an inheritance unto Israel according to their divisions by their tribes. And the land rested from
  • Luke 14:26 — If any man come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple.
  • Ps 139:21 — Do not I hate them, O LORD, that hate thee? and am not I grieved with those that rise up against thee?
  • Rev 2:2 — I know thy works, and thy labour, and thy patience, and how thou canst not bear them which are evil: and thou hast tried them which say they are apostles, and are not, and hast found them liars:
  • Titus 2:4 — That they may teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children,