Source and licence
share: publicgreekSource: Brenton, The Greek Septuagint with Apocrypha (1851), via eBible.org grcbrent; Ecclesiastes 1; verse table corpus/greek/verses.tsv (tools/greek_verses_index.py, outputs/REPORT-W2-ingest.md)
Attribution: The Greek Septuagint with Apocrypha, compiled by Sir Lancelot C. L. Brenton (1851). Public domain. eBible.org module grcbrent (USFM), generated with Haiola from source files dated 2026-04-08. Which printed Greek edition Brenton set is not stated in the module and is UNVERIFIED. Re-cut into one line per verse by tools/greek_verses_index.py; wording unchanged.
Licence: public domain — The Greek Septuagint with Apocrypha, compiled by Sir Lancelot C. L. Brenton; eBible.org module grcbrent, catalogue `Redistributable=True`, `Copyright=public domain`, copyright page "Public Domain" (read 2026-09-10; outputs/REPORT-W2-terms.md). Brenton's own base edition is not named anywhere in the module — UNVERIFIED (CLAUDE.md §1.4)
The text
18 lines · a line number is a link to itself| ref | L0 witness |
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| 1:1 | ῬΗΜΑΤΑ Ἐκκλησιαστοῦ υἱοῦ Δαυὶδ βασιλέως Ἰσραὴλ ἐν Ἱερουσαλήμ. |
| 1:2 | Ματαιότης ματαιοτήτων, εἶπεν ὁ Ἐκκλησιαστὴς, ματαιότης ματαιοτήτων, τὰ πάντα ματαιότης. |
| 1:3 | Τίς περίσσεια τῷ ἀνθρώπῳ ἐν παντὶ μόχθῳ αὐτοῦ ᾧ μοχθεῖ ὑπὸ τὸν ἥλιον; |
| 1:4 | Γενεὰ πορεύεται καὶ γενεὰ ἔρχεται, καὶ ἡ γῆ εἰς τὸν αἰῶνα ἕστηκε. |
| 1:5 | Καὶ ἀνατέλλει ὁ ἥλιος καὶ δύνει ὁ ἥλιος καὶ εἰς τὸν τόπον αὐτοῦ ἕλκει· |
| 1:6 | αὐτὸς ἀνατέλλων ἐκεῖ πορεύεται πρὸς Νότον, καὶ κυκλοῖ πρὸς Βοῤῥᾶν· κυκλοῖ κυκλῶν πορεύεται τὸ πνεῦμα, καὶ ἐπὶ κύκλους αὐτοῦ ἐπιστρέφει τὸ πνεῦμα. |
| 1:7 | Πάντες οἱ χείμαῤῥοι πορεύονται εἰς τὴν θάλασσαν, καὶ ἡ θάλασσα οὐκ ἔστιν ἐμπιμπλαμένη· εἰς τὸν τόπον οὗ οἱ χείμαῤῥοι πορεύονται, ἐκεῖ αὐτοὶ ἐπιστρέφουσι τοῦ πορευθῆναι. |
| 1:8 | Πάντες οἱ λόγοι ἔγκοποι, οὐ δυνήσεται ἀνὴρ τοῦ λαλεῖν· καὶ οὐ πλησθήσεται ὀφθαλμὸς τοῦ ὁρᾷν, καὶ οὐ πληρωθήσεται οὖς ἀπὸ ἀκροάσεως. |
| 1:9 | Τί τὸ γεγονός; αὐτὸ τὸ γενησόμενον· καὶ τί τὸ πεποιημένον; αὐτὸ τὸ ποιηθησόμενον· καὶ οὐκ ἔστι πᾶν πρόσφατον ὑπὸ τὸν ἥλιον. |
| 1:10 | Ὃς λαλήσει καὶ ἐρεῖ, ἴδε τοῦτο καινόν ἐστιν; ἤδη γέγονεν ἐν τοῖς αἰῶσι τοῖς γενομένοις ἀπὸ ἔμπροσθεν ἡμῶν. |
| 1:11 | Οὐκ ἔστι μνήμη τοῖς πρώτοις, καί γε τοῖς ἐσχάτοις γενομένοις οὐκ ἔσται αὐτῶν μνήμη μετὰ τῶν γενησομένων εἰς τὴν ἐσχάτην. |
| 1:12 | Ἐγὼ ἐκκλησιαστὴς ἐγενόμην βασιλεὺς ἐπὶ Ἰσραὴλ ἐν Ἱερουσαλήμ. |
| 1:13 | Καὶ ἔδωκα τὴν καρδίαν μου τοῦ ἐκζητῆσαι καὶ τοῦ κατασκέψασθαι ἐν τῇ σοφίᾳ περὶ πάντων τῶν γινομένων ὑπὸ τὸν οὐρανόν, ὅτι περισπασμὸν πονηρὸν ἔδωκεν ὁ Θεὸς τοῖς υἱοῖς τῶν ἀνθρώπων τοῦ περισπᾶσθαι ἐν αὐτῷ. |
| 1:14 | Εἶδον σύμπαντα τὰ ποιήματα τὰ πεποιημένα ὑπὸ τὸν ἥλιον· καὶ ἰδοὺ τὰ πάντα ματαιότης καὶ προαίρεσις πνεύματος. |
| 1:15 | Διεστραμμένον οὐ δυνήσεται ἐπικοσμηθῆναι, καὶ ὑστέρημα οὐ δυνήσεται ἀριθμηθῆναι. |
| 1:16 | Ἐλάλησα ἐγὼ ἐν καρδίᾳ μου, τῷ λέγειν, ἰδοὺ ἐγὼ ἐμεγαλύνθην, καὶ προσέθηκα σοφίαν ἐπὶ πᾶσιν οἳ ἐγένοντο ἔμπροσθέν μου ἐν Ἱερουσαλήμ· καὶ ἔδωκα καρδίαν μου τοῦ γνῶναι σοφίαν καὶ γνῶσιν. |
| 1:17 | Καὶ καρδία μου εἶδε πολλὰ, σοφίαν καὶ γνῶσιν, παραβολὰς καὶ ἐπιστήμην· ἔγνων ἐγώ ὅτι καί γε τοῦτό ἐστι προαίρεσις πνεύματος· |
| 1:18 | Ὅτι ἐν πλήθει σοφίας πλῆθος γνώσεως, καὶ ὁ προστιθεὶς γνῶσιν, προσθήσει ἄλγημα. |
Provenance
- title
- Ecclesiastes 1 (Greek, Brenton)
- dialect
- greek
- source
- Brenton, The Greek Septuagint with Apocrypha (1851), via eBible.org grcbrent; Ecclesiastes 1; verse table corpus/greek/verses.tsv (tools/greek_verses_index.py, outputs/REPORT-W2-ingest.md)
- licence
- public domain — The Greek Septuagint with Apocrypha, compiled by Sir Lancelot C. L. Brenton; eBible.org module grcbrent, catalogue `Redistributable=True`, `Copyright=public domain`, copyright page "Public Domain" (read 2026-09-10; outputs/REPORT-W2-terms.md). Brenton's own base edition is not named anywhere in the module — UNVERIFIED (CLAUDE.md §1.4)
- share
- public
- attribution
- The Greek Septuagint with Apocrypha, compiled by Sir Lancelot C. L. Brenton (1851). Public domain. eBible.org module grcbrent (USFM), generated with Haiola from source files dated 2026-04-08. Which printed Greek edition Brenton set is not stated in the module and is UNVERIFIED. Re-cut into one line per verse by tools/greek_verses_index.py; wording unchanged.
- file
- Bible/Old Testament/Ecclesiastes/01.greek.brenton.L0.txt
L0 witness
Cite as:
Ecclesiastes 1 (Greek, Brenton). Brenton, The Greek Septuagint with Apocrypha (1851), via eBible.org grcbrent; Ecclesiastes 1; verse table corpus/greek/verses.tsv (tools/greek_verses_index.py, outputs/REPORT-W2-ingest.md). Layers as published by the Kemetic project (Yousef Hanna), 2026: Coptic · Cairene · Kemetic, /doc/bible/old-testament/ecclesiastes/01.greek.brenton/. The Greek Septuagint with Apocrypha, compiled by Sir Lancelot C. L. Brenton (1851). Public domain. eBible.org module grcbrent (USFM), generated with Haiola from source files dated 2026-04-08. Which printed Greek edition Brenton set is not stated in the module and is UNVERIFIED. Re-cut into one line per verse by tools/greek_verses_index.py; wording unchanged.
What the layers are
The text as its witness or edition has it, original spelling; its dialect is a description and is never standardized.
For Egyptian texts: the transliteration with the editors' marks turned into the symbols ° * < > _ ^ (ruled 2026-09-10). For papyri: the edition's Leiden marks as the same symbols, and the editors' readings beside the scribe's as ‹scribe→editors› (ruled PAP-3).
Standardized Greco-Bohairic spelling and grammar, generated by code from the layer above under the rulings of the project.
The Kemetic alphabet, generated by code from L1.
Quoted translations where they exist, credited; otherwise model drafts, marked as drafts.