Passage Research
Ecclesiastes 6 — Sermon Preparation
A person who gains wealth and many children but cannot enjoy any of it illustrates a deep frustration woven into human existence. Below is a research summary for Ecclesiastes 6, 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
- 3
- preachers & commentators
Ecclesiastes 6 in the Hebrew
Distinctive vocabulary of this chapter, based on original-language morphology.
| Hebrew | Transliteration | Strong's | Count | Glosses |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| הֶבֶל | hebel | H1892 | 5 | emptiness, vanity |
| אָדָם | ʼâdâm | H120 | 6 | ruddy, human being |
| טוֹב | ṭôwb | H2896 | 5 | good |
| נֶפֶשׁ | nephesh | H5315 | 4 | breathing creature, animal |
| שֶׁמֶשׁ | shemesh | H8121 | 3 | sun, east |
| יָדַע | yâdaʻ | H3045 | 4 | know, seeing |
| יוֹתֵר | yôwthêr | H3148 | 2 | redundant, over and above |
How preachers through history handled this text
4 public-domain excerpts on Ecclesiastes 6, from the church fathers to the Puritans.
“VI The vanity of riches without use, ver. 1-6. They are unsatisfactory, ver. 7-10. It is folly to think of happiness in the things of this world, ver. 11, 12. 2. Riches - All sorts of riches. To eat - Because God gives him up to a base and covetous mind. 3. With good - He hath not a contented mind and comfortable enjoyment of his estate. Is better - Which as it never enjoyed the comforts, so it never felt the calamities of life. 4. He - The abortive; of whom alone, that passage is true, hath not seen the sun, ver. 5. Cometh - Into the world. …”
— John Wesley, Wesley's Notes on the Whole Bible, on Ecclesiastes 6:2–30 (Public Domain)
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