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מֵרוֹץ

me.rots

race

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Strong’s H4793Noun, masculine1 time in the Hebrew Bible

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Translated as

race1

In the text

Ecclesiastes 9:11הַמֵּרוֹץ
I saw something else under the sun: The race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong; neither is the bread to the wise, nor the wealth to the intelligent, nor the favor to the skillful. For time and chance happen to all.

Brown-Driver-Briggs

מֵרוֹץ n.[m.] running, race;—abs. Ec 9:11.

Sources: Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906, public domain) from the Open Scriptures Hebrew Lexicon (CC BY 4.0), glosses from STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0); STEPBible TAHOT (Hebrew Bible, Leningrad Codex, CC BY 4.0); the Berean Standard Bible (public domain). Reformatted by Word Study, wording unchanged. All sources and licenses.