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קֹהֶלֶת

qoheleth

ko-heh'-leth

Strong's 1890 spelling: qôheleth

“a (female) assembler (i.e. lecturer)”

Strong's Dictionary · 1890 · public domain

a (female) assembler (i.e. lecturer); abstractly, preaching (used as a 'nom de plume', Koheleth)

Rendered in the KJV as

preacher.

  • 7
    occurrencesin the Old Testament
  • 1 of 39
    Old Testament bookswhere the word stands
  • 6
    inflected formsdistinct spellings

Across 7 occurrences

The word itself

Inflected forms · 6

  • קֹהֶ֔לֶת2
  • הַקּוֹהֶ֖לֶת1
  • קֹהֶ֣לֶת1
  • קֹהֶ֗לֶת1
  • קֹהֶ֑לֶת1
  • קֹהֶ֖לֶת1

How it is rendered · 2

  • Teacher6
  • the Teacher1

The sense the word carries at each spot — how the translators read it there, not a fixed translation.

How it parses · 2

  • noun · feminine singular6
  • the definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singular1
Show the grammar codes as tagged
  • HNcfsa · 6
  • HTd/Ncfsa · 1

All 7, in canonical order

The ledger of occurrences

Ecclesiastes7 occurrences
Read Ecclesiastes 1:1 in context →
Hebrew and Greek text, word tagging and grammar: STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org), CC BY 4.0 — their grammar codes written out in English here, and shown as tagged under each list. Dictionary: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890, public domain). English verse text: Berean Standard Bible (public domain, 2023).