King James Version
Ecclesiastes 1:12 in the King James Version says “I the Preacher was king over Israel in Jerusalem.” — study this verse from Ecclesiastes chapter 1 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“I the Preacher was king over Israel in Jerusalem.”
Ecclesiastes 1:12 · KJV
Is there any thing whereof it may be said, See, this is new? it hath been already of old time, which was before us.
There is no remembrance of former things; neither shall there be any remembrance of things that are to come with those that shall come after.
I the Preacher was king over Israel in Jerusalem.
And I gave my heart to seek and search out by wisdom concerning all things that are done under heaven: this sore travail hath God given to the sons of man to be exercised therewith. to be: or, to afflict them
I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and, behold, all is vanity and vexation of spirit.
KJV Study — Public Domain
“I the Preacher”
H6953a (female) assembler (i.e., lecturer); abstractly, preaching (used as a 'nom de plume', koheleth)
to exist, i.e., be or become, come to pass (always emphatic, and not a mere copula or auxiliary)
above, over, upon, or against (yet always in this last relation with a downward aspect) in a great variety of applications
“over Israel”
H3478he will rule as god; jisral, a symbolical name of jacob; also (typically) of his posterity
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