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Reflections 1

1 The following are the words of the leader,[fn] David’s son, king in Yerushalem (Jerusalem):


1:1 We don’t have enough information to fully understand the meaning of the Hebrew word ‘קֹהֶ֣לֶת’ (Kohelet), but it probably means something like ‘leader/speaker of the assembly’, so we use ‘the leader’ throughout this document.

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