Bible Strands
רַעְיוֹן raʻyôwn
Meaning
desire
In the King James Version: vexation.
Derivation: from H7462 (רָעָה) in the sense of H7469 (רְעוּת);
Where it is used
- Ecclesiastes 1:17 So I set my mind to know wisdom and madness and folly; I learned that this, too, is a pursuit of the wind.
- Ecclesiastes 2:22 For what does a man get for all the toil and striving with which he labors under the sun?
- Ecclesiastes 4:16 There is no limit to all the people who were before them. Yet the successor will not be celebrated by those who come even later. This too is futile and a pursuit of the wind.