Passage Research
Ecclesiastes 12 — Sermon Preparation
The closing allegory of aging calls the reader to remember the Creator in youth, ending with the whole duty of humanity: fear God and keep his commandments. Below is a research summary for Ecclesiastes 12, drawn from openly licensed scholarly databases — original-language morphology, classic sermons from the church fathers through the Puritans, and ancient geography data.
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- verses
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- Hebrew words / lemmas
- 4
- classic sermon excerpts
- 4
- preachers & commentators
Ecclesiastes 12 in the Hebrew
Distinctive vocabulary of this chapter, based on original-language morphology.
| Hebrew | Transliteration | Strong's | Count | Glosses |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| קֹהֶלֶת | qôheleth | H6953 | 3 | assembler, preaching |
| הֶבֶל | hebel | H1892 | 3 | emptiness, vanity |
| שׁוּק | shûwq | H7784 | 2 | street, run |
| רָבָה | râbâh | H7235 | 3 | increase |
| יוֹתֵר | yôwthêr | H3148 | 2 | redundant, over and above |
| דָּבָר | dâbâr | H1697 | 4 | word, matter |
| חָשַׁךְ | châshak | H2821 | 2 | be dark, withholding |
How preachers through history handled this text
4 public-domain excerpts on Ecclesiastes 12, from the church fathers to the Puritans.
“THE CONCLUSION OF THE MATTER Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth, while the evil days come not, nor the years draw nigh, when thou shalt say, I have no pleasure in them; 2. While the sun, or the light, or the moon, or the stars, be not darkened, nor the clouds return after the rain; 3. In the day when the keepers of the house shall tremble, and the strong men shall bow themselves, and the grinders cease because they are few, and those that look out of the windows be darkened, 4. …”
— Alexander MacLaren, Expositions of the Holy Scriptures: Second Kings from Chap., on Ecclesiastes 12:1–30 (Public Domain)
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