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Ecclesiastes 1

Eccl. 1:2 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Vanity
hebel (Hebrew #1892)
from 1891; emptiness or vanity; figuratively, something transitory and unsatisfactory; often used as an adverb
KJV usage: X altogether, vain, vanity.
Pronounce: heh'bel
Origin: or (rarely in the abs.) habel {hab-ale'}
of vanities
hebel (Hebrew #1892)
from 1891; emptiness or vanity; figuratively, something transitory and unsatisfactory; often used as an adverb
KJV usage: X altogether, vain, vanity.
Pronounce: heh'bel
Origin: or (rarely in the abs.) habel {hab-ale'}
, saith
'amar (Hebrew #559)
to say (used with great latitude)
KJV usage: answer, appoint, avouch, bid, boast self, call, certify, challenge, charge, + (at the, give) command(-ment), commune, consider, declare, demand, X desire, determine, X expressly, X indeed, X intend, name, X plainly, promise, publish, report, require, say, speak (against, of), X still, X suppose, talk, tell, term, X that is, X think, use (speech), utter, X verily, X yet.
Pronounce: aw-mar'
Origin: a primitive root
the Preacher
qoheleth (Hebrew #6953)
a (female) assembler (i.e. lecturer): abstractly, preaching (used as a "nom de plume", Koheleth)
KJV usage: preacher.
Pronounce: ko-heh'-leth
Origin: feminine of active participle from 6950
, vanity
hebel (Hebrew #1892)
from 1891; emptiness or vanity; figuratively, something transitory and unsatisfactory; often used as an adverb
KJV usage: X altogether, vain, vanity.
Pronounce: heh'bel
Origin: or (rarely in the abs.) habel {hab-ale'}
of vanities
hebel (Hebrew #1892)
from 1891; emptiness or vanity; figuratively, something transitory and unsatisfactory; often used as an adverb
KJV usage: X altogether, vain, vanity.
Pronounce: heh'bel
Origin: or (rarely in the abs.) habel {hab-ale'}
; allb is vanity
hebel (Hebrew #1892)
from 1891; emptiness or vanity; figuratively, something transitory and unsatisfactory; often used as an adverb
KJV usage: X altogether, vain, vanity.
Pronounce: heh'bel
Origin: or (rarely in the abs.) habel {hab-ale'}
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Psa. 39:5‑6• 5Behold, thou hast made my days as hand-breadths, and my lifetime is as nothing before thee; verily, every man, even the high placed, is altogether vanity. Selah.
 6Verily, man walketh in a vain show; verily they are disquieted in vain; he heapeth up riches, and knoweth not who shall gather them. (Psa. 39:5‑6)
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Psa. 144:4• 4Man is like to vanity; his days are as a shadow that passeth away. (Psa. 144:4)
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Mark 8:36‑37• 36For what shall it profit a man if he gain the whole world and suffer the loss of his soul?
 37for what should a man give in exchange for his soul? (Mark 8:36‑37)

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Eccl. 2:11,15,17,19,21,23,26• 11Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labour that it had cost me to do them; and behold, all was vanity and pursuit of the wind, and there was no profit under the sun.
 15And I said in my heart, As it happeneth to the fool so will it happen even to me; and why was I then so wise? Then I said in my heart that this also is vanity.
 17And I hated life; for the work that is wrought under the sun was grievous unto me; for all is vanity and pursuit of the wind.
 19And who knoweth whether he will be a wise man or a fool? yet shall he have rule over all my labour at which I have laboured, and wherein I have been wise under the sun. This also is vanity.
 21For there is a man whose labour hath been with wisdom, and with knowledge, and with skill, and who leaveth it to a man that hath not laboured therein, to be his portion. This also is vanity and a great evil.
 23For all his days are sorrows, and his travail vexation: even in the night his heart taketh no rest. This also is vanity.
 26For he giveth to a man that is good in his sight wisdom, and knowledge, and joy; but to the sinner he giveth travail to gather and to heap up, that he may give to him that is good in God's sight. This also is vanity and pursuit of the wind. (Eccl. 2:11,15,17,19,21,23,26)
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Eccl. 3:19• 19For what befalleth the children of men befalleth beasts; even one thing befalleth them: as the one dieth, so dieth the other, and they have all one breath; and man hath no pre eminence above the beast: for all is vanity. (Eccl. 3:19)
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Eccl. 4:4,8,16• 4And I saw all labour, and all success of work, that it is man's jealousy of his neighbour. This also is vanity and pursuit of the wind.
 8There is one alone and without a second; also he hath neither son nor brother: yet is there no end of all his labour, neither is his eye satisfied with riches, and he saith not, For whom then am I labouring, and depriving my soul of good? This also is vanity and a grievous occupation.
 16There is no end of all the people, of all that stood before them; those however that come after shall not rejoice in him. Surely this also is vanity and a striving after the wind. (Eccl. 4:4,8,16)
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Eccl. 5:10• 10He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with silver, nor he that loveth abundance with increase. This also is vanity. (Eccl. 5:10)
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Eccl. 6:11• 11For there are many things that increase vanity: what is man advantaged? (Eccl. 6:11)
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Eccl. 11:8,10• 8but if a man live many years, and rejoice in them all, yet let him remember the days of darkness; for they shall be many: all that cometh is vanity.
 10Then remove discontent from thy heart, and put away evil from thy flesh; for childhood and youth are vanity. (Eccl. 11:8,10)
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Eccl. 12:8• 8Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher: all is vanity. (Eccl. 12:8)
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Psa. 39:5‑6• 5Behold, thou hast made my days as hand-breadths, and my lifetime is as nothing before thee; verily, every man, even the high placed, is altogether vanity. Selah.
 6Verily, man walketh in a vain show; verily they are disquieted in vain; he heapeth up riches, and knoweth not who shall gather them. (Psa. 39:5‑6)
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Psa. 62:9‑10• 9Men of low degree are only vanity; men of high degree, a lie: laid in the balance, they go up together lighter than vanity.
 10Put not confidence in oppression, and become not vain in robbery; if wealth increase, set not your heart upon it. (Psa. 62:9‑10)
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Psa. 144:4• 4Man is like to vanity; his days are as a shadow that passeth away. (Psa. 144:4)
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Rom. 8:20• 20for the creature has been made subject to vanity, not of its will, but by reason of him who has subjected the same, in hope (Rom. 8:20)
• The first verse gives us who the writer is; the second, the beginning and ending of his search. (“Ecclesiastes 1: Old Groans and New Songs” by F.C. Jennings)
• “The word hahvehl is always translated, as here, “vanity.” It is sometimes applied to “idols,” as Deut. 32:21, and would give the idea of emptiness―nothingness. What a striking contrast! Man has here all that Nature can possibly give; and his poor heart, far from singing, is empty still, and utters its sad bitter groan of disappointment. (“Ecclesiastes 1: Old Groans and New Songs” by F.C. Jennings)

J. N. Darby Translation

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Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities! all is vanity.