Midvash

קֹהֶלֶתqôheleth

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

Pronunciation: ko-heh'-leth · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H6953

Meanings

preacher, collector (of sentences), a king in Jerusalem, son of David, probably = Solomon, the pseudonym of book of Ecclesiastes (Ecclesiastes 12:8; Ecclesiastes 1:2; Ezra 2:55; Ecclesiastes 12:11; Ecclesiastes 12:10)

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Where it appears

Appears 7 times in the Bible.

  • Ecclesiastes 1:1 These are the words of the Teacher, King David’s son, who ruled in Jerusalem.
  • Ecclesiastes 1:2 “Everything is meaningless,” says the Teacher, “completely meaningless!”
  • Ecclesiastes 1:12 I, the Teacher, was king of Israel, and I lived in Jerusalem.
  • Ecclesiastes 7:27 “This is my conclusion,” says the Teacher. “I discovered this after looking at the matter from every possible angle.
  • Ecclesiastes 12:8 “Everything is meaningless,” says the Teacher, “completely meaningless.”
  • Ecclesiastes 12:9 Keep this in mind: The Teacher was considered wise, and he taught the people everything he knew. He listened carefully to many proverbs, studying and classifying them.
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Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).