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Ecclesiastes

Hebrew — Westminster Leningrad Codex · 12 chapters

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Ecclesiastes 1:1

דִּבְרֵי֙ קֹהֶ֣לֶת בֶּן דָּוִ֔ד מֶ֖לֶךְ בִּירוּשָׁלִָֽם

words of · preacher · son of · David · king · in/at Jerusalem

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Counted here from the morphology-tagged text of Ecclesiastes — nouns, verbs and adjectives only, so the article, conjunctions, prepositions and pronouns are left out. Each word opens its full lexicon entry and every verse it appears in.

  1. כֹּל H3605 kôl all 91
  2. טוֹב H2896 ṭôwb good 52
  3. אָדָם H120 ʼâdâm man 49
  4. הָיָה H1961 hâyâh to be 47
  5. רָאָה H7200 râʼâh to see 47
  6. עָשָׂה H6213 ʻâsâh to do 43
  7. לֵב H3820 lêb heart 41
  8. אֱלֹהִים H430 ʼĕlôhîym God 40
  9. עֵת H6256 ʻêth time 40
  10. הֶ֫בֶל H1892 hebel vapor 38
  11. יָדַע H3045 yâdaʻ to know 36
  12. שֶׁ֫מֶשׁ H8121 shemesh sun 35

About this book

  • 12 Chapters
  • 222 Verses
  • 2,999 Hebrew words
  • 562 Distinct lemmas

Ecclesiastes is part of the Hebrew Old Testament and contains 12 chapters in the Westminster Leningrad Codex. Every chapter on this site is browseable verse by verse, with each verse showing the original Hebrew text alongside transliteration, Strong's number, concise gloss, and parsing (part of speech, stem, person, gender, number, state). Pick a chapter above to begin.

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