Lexicon Qoheleth: "a collector (of sentences)," "a preacher," a son of David Original Word: קֹהֶ֫לֶתPart of Speech: Noun Masculine Transliteration: Qoheleth Phonetic Spelling: (ko-heh'-leth) Short Definition: Preacher NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originfrom the same as qahalDefinition"a collector (of sentences)," "a preacher," a son of David NASB TranslationPreacher (7).
Brown-Driver-Briggs קֹהֶ֫לֶת, ( קוֺהֶ֫לֶת Ecclesiastes 12:8) noun masculineEcclesiastes 1:2 collector (of sentences), or (AV RV) preacher ( concionator Jerome: ἐκκλησιαστής ᵐ5 (member of an ἐκκλησία); feminine either of office, Ges § 122r De Now Che, compare סֹפֶרֶת Ezra 2:55;  , Khalif; German Majestät, Excellenz; or as in Arabic with intensive force, one realizing the idea in its completeness (compare  great collector,  deep investigator (formed like קֹהֶלֶת), W AG i. § 233 R. c. see Dr Intr. 466; RVm great orator): hence either convener, or great collector (of sentences), compare בַּעֲלֵי אֲסֻמּוֺת Ecclesiastes 12:11, למעא דברי חפץ ׳בקּשׁ ק Ecclesiastes 12:10 (but Kö Einl. 428 Dr l.c. and others speaker in assembly, Plumptre debater)); — ׳ק a king in Jerusalem, son of David, probably = Solomon, the pseudonym of book of Ecclesiastes: Ecclesiastes 1:1, Ecclesiastes 1:2 (apposition of אֲנִי), called חכם Ecclesiastes 12:9; compare Ecclesiastes 12:10; ׳אמר ק Ecclesiastes 1:2, ׳אמר הק Ecclesiastes 12:8 = Ecclesiastes 7:27 for ᵑ0 ׳אמרה ק. Strong's preacher Feminine of active participle from qahal; a (female) assembler (i.e. Lecturer): abstractly, preaching (used as a "nom de plume", Koheleth) -- preacher. see HEBREW qahal |
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