Ecclesiastes 7:1 {2}
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A good name is better than precious ointments: and the day of death than the day of one's birth.

name

Proverbs 15:30 The light of the eyes rejoiceth the soul: a good name maketh the bones fat.

Proverbs 22:1 A good name is better than great riches: and good favour is above silver and gold.

Isaiah 56:5 I will give to them in my house, and within my walls, a place, and a name better than sons and daughters: I will give them an everlasting name which shall never perish.

Luke 10:20 But yet rejoice not in this, that spirits are subject unto you: but rejoice in this, that your names are written in heaven.

Hebrews 11:2,39 For by this the ancients obtained a testimony. . . .

precious

Ecclesiastes 10:1 Dying flies spoil the sweetness of the ointment. Wisdom and glory is more precious than a small and shortlived folly.

Psalm 133:2 Like the precious ointment on the head, that ran down upon the beard, the beard of Aaron, Which ran down to the skirt of his garment:

Proverbs 27:9 Ointment and perfumes rejoice the heart: and the good counsels of a friend are sweet to the soul.

Songs 1:3 Draw me: we will run after thee to the odour of thy ointments. The king hath brought me into his storerooms: we will be glad and rejoice in thee, remembering thy breasts more than wine: the rightous love thee.

Songs 4:10 How beautiful are thy breasts, my sister, my spouse! thy breasts are more beautiful than wine, and the sweet smell of thy ointments above all aromatical spices.

John 13:2 And when supper was done (the devil having now put into the heart of Judas Iscariot, the son of Simon, to betray him),

the day

Ecclesiastes 4:2 And I praised the dead rather than the living:

Job 3:17 There the wicked cease from tumult, and there the wearied in strength are at rest.

Isaiah 57:1,2 The just perisheth, and no man layeth it to heart, and men of mercy are taken away, because there is none that understandeth; for the just man is taken away from before the face of evil. . . .

2 Corinthians 5:1,8 For we know, if our earthly house of this habitation be dissolved, that we have a building of God, a house not made with hands, eternal in heaven. . . .

Philippians 1:21-23 For to me, to live is Christ: and to die is gain. . . .

Revelation 14:13 And I heard a voice from heaven, saying to me: Write: Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord. From henceforth now, saith the Spirit, that they may rest from their labours. For their works follow them.

Context
The Value of Wisdom
1A good name is better than precious ointments: and the day of death than the day of one's birth.2It is better to go to the house of mourning, than to the house of feasting: for in that we are put in mind of the end of all, and the living thinketh what is to come.…
Cross References
Proverbs 22:1
A good name is better than great riches: and good favour is above silver and gold.

Ecclesiastes 4:2
And I praised the dead rather than the living:

Ecclesiastes 7:8
Better is the end of a speech than the beginning. Better is the patient man than the presumptuous.

Songs 1:3
Draw me: we will run after thee to the odour of thy ointments. The king hath brought me into his storerooms: we will be glad and rejoice in thee, remembering thy breasts more than wine: the rightous love thee.

Jonah 4:3
And he prayed to the Lord, and said: I beseech thee, O Lord, is not this what I said, when I was yet in my own country? therefore I went before to flee into Tharsis: for I know that thou art a gracious and merciful God, patient, and of much compassion, and easy to forgive evil.

Lexicon
A good name
שֵׁ֖ם (šêm)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 8034: A name

is better
ט֥וֹב (ṭō·wḇ)
Adjective - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 2896: Pleasant, agreeable, good

than fine
ט֑וֹב (ṭō·wḇ)
Adjective - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 2896: Pleasant, agreeable, good

perfume,
מִשֶּׁ֣מֶן (miš·še·men)
Preposition-m | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 8081: Grease, liquid, richness

and one’s day
וְי֣וֹם (wə·yō·wm)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's Hebrew 3117: A day

of death
הַמָּ֔וֶת (ham·mā·weṯ)
Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 4194: Death, the dead, their place, state, pestilence, ruin

[is better] than his day
מִיּ֖וֹם (mî·yō·wm)
Preposition-m | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 3117: A day

of birth.
הִוָּלְדֽוֹ׃ (hiw·wā·lə·ḏōw)
Verb - Nifal - Infinitive construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 3205: To bear young, to beget, medically, to act as midwife, to show lineage


Additional Translations
A good name is better than fine perfume, and one’s day of death is better than his day of birth.A good name is better than precious ointment; and the day of death than the day of one's birth.

A good name is better than precious oil; and the day of death, than the day of one's birth.

A good name is better than good oil; and the day of death than the day of birth.

A [good] name is better than precious ointment, and the day of death than the day of one's birth.

A GOOD name is better than precious ointment; and the day of death than the day of one's birth.

A good name is better than precious ointment; and the day of death than the day of one's birth.

A good name is better than fine perfume; and the day of death better than the day of one's birth.

Better is a name than good perfume, And the day of death than the day of birth.
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