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Ecclesiastes 3 — Sermon Preparation

Below is a research summary for Ecclesiastes 3, 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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Hebrew words / lemmas
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classic sermon excerpts
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preachers & commentators

Ecclesiastes 3 in the Hebrew

Distinctive vocabulary of this chapter, based on original-language morphology.

Hebrew Transliteration Strong's Count Glosses
עֵת ʻêth H6256 31 time, now
אָדָם ʼâdâm H120 8 ruddy, human being
רָאָה râʼâh H7200 6 see
מִקְרֶה miqreh H4745 3 met, accident
בְּהֵמָה bᵉhêmâh H929 4 dumb, animal
טוֹב ṭôwb H2896 4 good
מַעֲשֶׂה maʻăseh H4639 3 action, transaction

How preachers through history handled this text

6 public-domain excerpts on Ecclesiastes 3, from the church fathers to the Puritans.

Matthew Henry 2 Alexander MacLaren 2 Spurgeon 1 John Wesley 1

“A TIME TO PLANT' A time to plant.'--Eccles. iii. 2. The writer enumerates in this context a number of opposite courses of conduct arranged in pairs, each of which is right at the right time. The view thus presented seems to him to be depressing, and to make life difficult to understand, and aimless. We always appear to be building up with one hand and pulling down with the other. The ship never heads for two miles together in the same direction. …”

— Alexander MacLaren, Expositions of the Holy Scriptures: Second Kings from Chap., on Ecclesiastes 3:2–10 (Public Domain)

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