Ecclesiastes 1:12

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[There is] no remembrance of former [things]; neither shall there be [any] remembrance of [things] that are to come with [those] that shall come after.	I the Preacher was king over Israel in Jerusalem.	And I gave my heart to seek and search out by wisdom concerning all [things] that are done under heaven: this sore travail hath God given to the sons of man to be exercised therewith.

Verse Text

KJV with Strong's Numbers

I the Preacher^H6953 was king^H4428 over Israel^H3478 in Jerusalem^H3389.

Original Hebrew

אֲנִי קֹהֶלֶת הָיִיתִי מֶלֶךְ עַל־יִשְׂרָאֵל בִּירוּשָׁלִָם׃

Hebrew	Transliteration	Strong's	Morphology	Gloss
אֲנִ֣י	'a.Ni	H589	HPp1cs	I
קֹהֶ֗לֶת	ko.He.let	H6953	HNcmsa	Teacher
הָיִ֥יתִי	ha.Yi.ti	H1961	HVqp1cs	I was
מֶ֛לֶךְ	Me.lekh	H4428	HNcmsa	king
עַל	'al-	H5921	HR	over
יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל	Yis.ra.'El	H3478	HNp	Israel
בִּ/ירוּשָׁלִָֽם	bi./ru.sha.Lim	H3389	HR/Np	in/ Jerusalem

Source: Westminster Leningrad Codex (MorphHB), TAHOT (Tyndale House)

Strong's References

H3389 — יְרוּשָׁלַ͏ִם (Yᵉrûwshâlaim, yer-oo-shaw-lah'-im): rarely יְרוּשָׁלַיִם; a dual (in allusion to its two main hills (the true pointing, at least of the former reading, seems to be that of יְרוּשָׁלֵם)); probably from (the passive participle of) יָרָה and שָׁלַם; founded peaceful; Jerushalaim or Jerushalem, the capital city of Palestine; Jerusalem.
H3478 — יִשְׂרָאֵל (Yisrâʼêl, yis-raw-ale'): from שָׂרָה and אֵל; he will rule as God; Jisrael, a symbolical name of Jacob; also (typically) of his posterity; Israel.
H4428 — מֶלֶךְ (melek, meh'-lek): from מָלַךְ; a king; king, royal.
H6953 — קֹהֶלֶת (qôheleth, ko-heh'-leth): feminine of active participle from קָהַל; a (female) assembler (i.e. lecturer); abstractly, preaching (used as a 'nom de plume', Koheleth); preacher.

The following Strong's numbers are referenced in the Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) text but were not explicitly tagged in the KJV source:

H589 — אֲנִי (ʼănîy, an-ee'): lemma אֲנַי second vowel, corrected to אֲנִי; contracted from אָנֹכִי; I; I, (as for) me, mine, myself, we, [idiom] which, [idiom] who.
H1961 — הָיָה (hâyâh, haw-yaw): a primitive root (compare הָוָא); to exist, i.e. be or become, come to pass (always emphatic, and not a mere copula or auxiliary); beacon, [idiom] altogether, be(-come), accomplished, committed, like), break, cause, come (to pass), do, faint, fall, [phrase] follow, happen, [idiom] have, last, pertain, quit (one-) self, require, [idiom] use.
H5921 — עַל (ʻal, al): properly, the same as עַל used as a preposition (in the singular or plural often with prefix, or as conjunction with a particle following); above, over, upon, or against (yet always in this last relation with a downward aspect) in a great variety of applications; above, according to(-ly), after, (as) against, among, and, [idiom] as, at, because of, beside (the rest of), between, beyond the time, [idiom] both and, by (reason of), [idiom] had the charge of, concerning for, in (that), (forth, out) of, (from) (off), (up-) on, over, than, through(-out), to, touching, [idiom] with.

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