"Remember Thy Creator"

Ecclesiastes 12:1

“Remember Thy Creator”

Hebrew lays its grandest plural like a crown on the Maker

The plural is a crown on a great word, not a second Maker hiding in the letters.

--- The Standing Stone ---

Behind “LORD” in your Bible lies a hidden name --- in the Hebrew it is Yahuah Psalm 83:18**; Yahuah is the Father** Isaiah 63:16**; Yahuah is the only God, beside Him there is no other** Isaiah 45:5**; therefore Yahuah the Father is the only true God, leaving no room for a second or third person** 1 Corinthians 8:6**.**

Reference Piece

The “Us” Passages

Plural language for God --- “us,” “our,” and the word Elohim

see the reference section at the back of the book

Ecclesiastes 12:1

Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth, while the evil days come not, nor the years draw nigh, when thou shalt say, I have no pleasure in them.

The hook here is not a pronoun. It is one word in the Hebrew --- the word behind “Creator.” In Hebrew it is bore’eka, and it is built on a plural form. Read woodenly, it could be put into English as “thy Creators.” That plural is real. It is not a translation trick. So the honest place to begin is to grant it plainly: in this verse, the word “Creator” is shaped as a plural.

בּוֹרְאֶיךָ

bore’eka

thy Creator --- built on the plural form (Ecclesiastes 12:1)

How Hebrew Names Its Greatest Things

Here is what the plural-Godhead argument never tells you: Hebrew does this on purpose, and it does it constantly. The language has a settled habit of putting its biggest words into the plural --- not to multiply the thing, but to magnify it. The plural form is a kind of crown that Hebrew sets on what is great, what is full, or what is whole.

Start with the greatest word of all. The name for God, Elohim, is itself plural in form. Yet the very first sentence of the Bible reads, “In the beginning Elohim created” --- and “created” is a single, singular act. The plural marks His majesty. It does not count persons.

Then come the words for things too full or too wide to be reckoned as one. “Heavens” (shamayim), “waters” (mayim), and “face” (panim) all carry that same plural ending. The sky is one sky. A man’s face is one face. No one reads “waters” and pictures three separate seas crowded inside the word. Even “life” (chayyim) takes that form, yet a man lives one life. The plural says the thing is full and whole --- not that it is many.

So when the wise man writes “thy Creator” with a plural ending, he is doing exactly what Hebrew loves to do with its highest words. He is crowning the Maker, not counting Him. But you do not have to take that on trust --- because Scripture writes the very same title the other way as well.

The Same Title, Written Singular

If that plural ending meant a plurality of persons, then every other place that calls God “Creator” ought to carry the same plural. It does not. The prophet Isaiah uses the singular form of this exact word, of the same God, more than once.

בּוֹרֵא

bore

Creator --- the singular form (Isaiah 40:28)

Isaiah 40:28

…the everlasting God, the LORD [Yahuah], the Creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth not, neither is weary? there is no searching of his understanding.

There the word “Creator” is bore --- singular. The Maker of the whole earth, from one end to the other, named with a single form. And Isaiah presses it closer still. He takes the very phrase Ecclesiastes uses --- “thy Creator,” the Maker addressing one person --- and writes it in the singular.

Isaiah 43:1

But now thus saith the LORD [Yahuah] that created thee, O Jacob, and he that formed thee, O Israel, Fear not: for I have redeemed thee, I have called thee by thy name; thou art mine.

“The LORD that created thee” is that same title --- thy Creator, spoken to one man --- and here it stands singular. So the identical title is written both ways in the Scriptures, of the identical God: once with the plural crown, once without it. The Maker never changed. Only the spelling did. And that one fact decides the whole question. The plural in Ecclesiastes cannot be a head-count of persons, or Isaiah’s singular would flatly contradict it.

One God Created Us

Then one verse says the quiet part out loud. The prophet Malachi names the Creator with no plural form at all, and ties Him straight to the one Father.

Malachi 2:10

Have we not all one father? hath not one God created us? why do we deal treacherously every man against his brother, by profaning the covenant of our fathers?

One father. One God. “Created us” --- a single act, by a single Maker. The word for “one” here is the same “one” the Shema sets upon Yahuah. There is no plural ending to weigh, no crown to interpret. Just the bare statement: one God created us, and that one God is the Father. Lay Malachi beside Ecclesiastes and the case is shut. The plural ending was always a crown on a great word --- never a second Maker hiding in the letters.

Conclusion

The Verdict

“Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth” --- while the light is still bright, before the sun and the moon and the stars grow dark. The wise man reaches for Hebrew’s grandest form and lays it on the Maker like a crown. And lest anyone mistake the crown for a crowd, the same Scriptures write that title plain --- the Creator of the ends of the earth, the One who formed thee, the one God who made us all.

The plural is the crown Hebrew sets on its greatest word --- not a second Maker hiding in the spelling.