Ecclesiastes 9:5
Parallel Strong's
Berean Study Bible
For the living know that they will die, but the dead know nothing. They have no further reward, because the memory of them is forgotten.

Young's Literal Translation
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King James Bible
For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not any thing, neither have they any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten.

Hebrew
For
כִּ֧י (kî)
Conjunction
Strong's 3588: A relative conjunction

the living
הַֽחַיִּ֛ים (ha·ḥay·yîm)
Article | Adjective - masculine plural
Strong's 2416: Alive, raw, fresh, strong, life

know
יוֹדְעִ֖ים (yō·wḏ·‘îm)
Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine plural
Strong's 3045: To know

that they will die,
שֶׁיָּמֻ֑תוּ (še·yā·mu·ṯū)
Pronoun - relative | Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine plural
Strong's 4191: To die, to kill

but the dead
וְהַמֵּתִ֞ים (wə·ham·mê·ṯîm)
Conjunctive waw, Article | Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine plural
Strong's 4191: To die, to kill

know
יוֹדְעִ֣ים (yō·wḏ·‘îm)
Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine plural
Strong's 3045: To know

nothing.
מְא֗וּמָה (mə·’ū·māh)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 3972: A speck, point, nothing

They have no
וְאֵֽין־ (wə·’ên-)
Conjunctive waw | Adverb
Strong's 369: A non-entity, a negative particle

further
ע֤וֹד (‘ō·wḏ)
Adverb
Strong's 5750: Iteration, continuance, again, repeatedly, still, more

reward,
שָׂכָ֔ר (śā·ḵār)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 7939: Payment of contract, salary, fare, maintenance, compensation, benefit

because
כִּ֥י (kî)
Conjunction
Strong's 3588: A relative conjunction

the memory
זִכְרָֽם׃ (ziḵ·rām)
Noun - masculine singular construct | third person masculine plural
Strong's 2143: A memento, recollection, commemoration

of them is forgotten.
נִשְׁכַּ֖ח (niš·kaḥ)
Verb - Nifal - Perfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 7911: To mislay, to be oblivious of, from want of memory, attention

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           
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