Preacher
קֹהֶ֫לֶתStrong’s H6953qohelet (qo-he-let)
Appears in 7 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Qohelet is the Hebrew word usually translated “teacher”. It appears in 7 verses of the Old Testament.
“The words of the Preacher, the son of David, king in Jerusalem.”
Meaning
- Collector (of sentences), preacher, public speaker, speaker in an assembly, Qoheleth
How it's translated
- teacher 6
- the teacher 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Ecclesiastes 7
1 book in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Ecclesiastes 1:2Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity.
- Ecclesiastes 1:12I the Preacher was king over Israel in Jerusalem.
- Ecclesiastes 7:27Behold, this have I found, saith the preacher, counting one by one, to find out the account:
- Ecclesiastes 12:8Vanity of vanities, saith the preacher; all is vanity.
- Ecclesiastes 12:9And 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.
- Ecclesiastes 12:10The preacher sought to find out acceptable words: and that which was written was upright, even words of truth.
Hebrew dictionary
קֹהֶ֫לֶת qohelet · preacher
collector (of sentences), preacher, public speaker, speaker in an assembly, Qoheleth
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “preacher” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
PRE'ACHER, noun
One who discourses publicly on religious subjects.
- One that inculcates any thing with earnestness.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.