Ecclesiastes 12:8

Ecclesiastes 12:8

Vanity of vanities, saith the preacher; all is vanity.

a. ASV: Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher; all is vanity.

b. YLT: Vanity of vanities, said the preacher, the whole [is] vanity.

c. Classic Amplified: Vapor of vapors and futility of futilities, says the Preacher. All is futility (emptiness, falsity, vainglory, and transitoriness)!

d. Septuagint: Vanity of vanities, said the Preacher; all is vanity.

e. Stone Edition Torah/Prophets/ Writings: Futilities of futilities, said Koheles, all is futile!.

1. “Vanity of vanities, saith the preacher; all is vanity.”

a. Vanity [Strong: 1892 hebel heh'bel or (rarely in the abs.) habel {hab-ale'}; from 1891; emptiness or vanity; figuratively, something transitory and unsatisfactory; often used as an adverb:--X altogether, vain, vanity.]

b. [of] vanities [Strong: 1892 hebel heh'bel or (rarely in the abs.) habel {hab-ale'}; from 1891; emptiness or vanity; figuratively, something transitory and unsatisfactory; often used as an adverb:--X altogether, vain, vanity.]

c. 559 'amar aw-mar' a primitive root; to say (used with great latitude):--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.]

d. [the] preacher [Strong: 6953 qoheleth ko-heh'-leth feminine of active participle from 6950; a (female) assembler (i.e. lecturer): abstractly, preaching (used as a "nom de plume", Koheleth):--preacher.]

e. all [Strong: 3605 kol kole or (Jer. 33:8) kowl {kole}; from 3634; properly, the whole; hence, all, any or every (in the singular only, but often in a plural sense):--(in) all (manner, (ye)), altogether, any (manner), enough, every (one, place, thing), howsoever, as many as, (no-)thing, ought, whatsoever, (the) whole, whoso(-ever).]

f. [is] vanity [Strong: 1892 hebel heh'bel or (rarely in the abs.) habel {hab-ale'}; from 1891; emptiness or vanity; figuratively, something transitory and unsatisfactory; often used as an adverb:--X altogether, vain, vanity.]