Definition of Book of Ecclesiastes

1. Noun. An Old Testament book consisting of reflections on the vanity of human life; is traditionally attributed to Solomon but probably was written about 250 BC.

Exact synonyms: Ecclesiastes
Generic synonyms: Book
Group relationships: Old Testament, Hagiographa, Ketubim, Writings, Sapiential Book, Wisdom Book, Wisdom Literature

Lexicographical Neighbors of Book Of Ecclesiastes

Bononian phosphorus
Bontemps
Bonwill triangle
Boocercus eurycerus
Boodha
Boodhas
Boodhism
Boodhist
Boodhists
Boogeyman
Book of Amos
Book of Baruch
Book of Common Prayer
Book of Daniel
Book of Deuteronomy
Book of Ecclesiastes (current term)
Book of Esther
Book of Exodus
Book of Ezekiel
Book of Ezra
Book of Genesis
Book of Habakkuk
Book of Haggai
Book of Hosea
Book of Isaiah
Book of Jeremiah
Book of Job
Book of Joel
Book of Jonah
Book of Joshua

Literary usage of Book of Ecclesiastes

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1909)
"... Commentary on the Book of Ecclesiastes, to which are appended Treatises on the Song of Solomon, the Book of Job, the Prophet Isaiah, the Sacrifices of ..."

2. The Monthly Review by Ralph Griffiths (1832)
"It consists of translations of the Book of Ecclesiastes in four forms of English style; the one being the common version^ the other an interpretation from ..."

3. Literature of Theology: A Classified Bibliography of Theological and General by John Fletcher Hurst (1896)
"CHRISTIAN D. Cohe- leth, commonly called the Book of Ecclesiastes ... MACDONALD, JM, DD The Book of Ecclesiastes Explained, Critically and Popularly. ..."

4. The Hebrew Literature of Wisdom in the Light of To-day: A Synthesis by John Franklin Genung (1906)
"1 This singular warning occurs at the close of the Book of Ecclesiastes; a singular warning, I say, ..."

5. A Dictionary of the Booksellers and Printers who Were at Work in England by Henry Robert Plomer (1907)
"Published a Latin edition of the Book of Ecclesiastes, 1662. Possibly son, or brother, of Anthony Nicholson, ..."

6. Lectures on the Moral Government of God by Nathaniel William Taylor (1859)
"Book of Ecclesiastes.—Enoch and Abraham.—Prayer of Balaam.—Destruction by the deluge, and of Sodom and Gomorrah.—Argument from the New Testament. ..."

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