Quick Definition
be foolish
Strong's Definition
properly, to be slack, i.e. (figuratively) to be foolish
Derivation: a primitive root;
KJV Usage: dote, be (become, do) foolish(-ly).
TWOT Reference: 830
Outline of Biblical Usage
Septuagint (LXX) Greek Equivalents
This Hebrew word is translated by the following Greek words in the Septuagint:
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon
יָאַל (ya.al) — be foolish. 1) to be foolish, become fools, act foolishly, show wicked folly 1a) (Niphal) 1a1) to show wicked folly 1a2) to become fools
UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew
verb · אִוֶּלֶת
verb
Willing | verb hif
to be willing, to accept (to do something) = state in which humans and deities are willing to do something; often used in polite speech to soften one's request or to underline its sincerity
EXO 2:21 · JOS 7:7 · JDG 17:11 · JDG 19:6 · 1SA 12:22 · 2SA 7:29 · 2KI 5:23 · 2KI 6:3 · 1CH 17:27 · JOB 6:9 · JOB 6:28
verb
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Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon
[יָאַל] vb. be foolish Niph. do or act foolishly shew wicked folly = sin
become fools, lacking insight and judgment
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