Ecclesiastes 12:8

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Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.	Vanity of vanities, saith the preacher; all [is] vanity.	And moreover, because the preacher was wise, he still taught the people knowledge; yea, he gave good heed, and sought out, [and] set in order many proverbs.

Verse Text

KJV with Strong's Numbers

Vanity^H1892 of vanities^H1892, saith^H559 the preacher^H6953; all is vanity^H1892.

Original Hebrew

הֲבֵל הֲבָלִים אָמַר הַקֹּוהֶלֶת הַכֹּל הָבֶל׃

Hebrew	Transliteration	Strong's	Morphology	Gloss
הֲבֵ֧ל	ha.Vel	H1892	HNcmsc	futility of
הֲבָלִ֛ים	ha.va.Lim	H1892	HNcmpa	futilities
אָמַ֥ר	'a.Mar	H559	HVqp3ms	he said
הַ/קּוֹהֶ֖לֶת	ha./ko.He.let	H6953	HTd/Ncmsa	the/ Teacher
הַ/כֹּ֥ל	ha./Kol	H3605	HTd/Ncmsa	(the)/ everything
הָֽבֶל	Ha.vel	H1892	HNcmsa	(is) futility

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

Strong's References

H559 — אָמַר (ʼâmar, aw-mar'): a primitive root; to say (used with great latitude); answer, appoint, avouch, bid, boast self, call, certify, challenge, charge, [phrase] (at the, give) command(-ment), commune, consider, declare, demand, [idiom] desire, determine, [idiom] expressly, [idiom] indeed, [idiom] intend, name, [idiom] plainly, promise, publish, report, require, say, speak (against, of), [idiom] still, [idiom] suppose, talk, tell, term, [idiom] that is, [idiom] think, use (speech), utter, [idiom] verily, [idiom] yet.
H1892 — הֶבֶל (hebel, heh'bel): or (rarely in the abs.) הֲבֵל; from הָבַל; emptiness or vanity; figuratively, something transitory and unsatisfactory; often used as an adverb; [idiom] altogether, vain, vanity.
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:

H3605 — כֹּל (kôl, kole): or (Jeremiah 33:8) כּוֹל; from כָּלַל; properly, the whole; hence, all, any or every (in the singular only, but often in a plural sense); (in) all (manner, (ye)), altogether, any (manner), enough, every (one, place, thing), howsoever, as many as, (no-) thing, ought, whatsoever, (the) whole, whoso(-ever).

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