H5530 סָכָל (çâkâl) saw-kawl'

Hebrew

Noun (Masculine, Hebrew)

Quick Definition

fool

Strong's Definition

silly

Derivation: from H5528 (סָכַל);

KJV Usage: fool(-ish), sottish.

TWOT Reference: 1493a

Outline of Biblical Usage

1) fool

STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon

סָכָל (sa.khal) — fool. fool

UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew

סָכָל (H5530)

adj · סכל

Foolish

(to act like a) fool, foolish = behavior of a person without good sense or wisdom

ECC 2:19 · ECC 7:17 · ECC 10:3 · ECC 10:3 · ECC 10:14 · JER 4:22 · JER 5:21

¹ ECC 10:3 MT-K כשׁהסכל | MT-Q כְּשֶׁסָּכָל

Steve Berneking

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Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon

סָכָל sâkâl BDB Definition: 1) fool Part of Speech: noun masculine A Related Word by BDB/Strongs Number: from H5528 Same Word by TWOT Number: 1493a Total KJV Occurrences: 7

Bible Occurrences (6)

2:19 7:17 10:3 10:14

4:22 5:21

Ecclesiastes 2:19

And who knows whether [that man] will be wise or foolish? Yet he will take over all the labor at which I have worked skillfully under the sun. This too is futile.

Ecclesiastes 7:17

Do not be excessively wicked, and do not be a fool. Why should you die before your time?

Ecclesiastes 10:3

Even as the fool walks along the road, his sense is lacking, and he shows everyone that he is a fool.

Ecclesiastes 10:14

Yet the fool multiplies words. No one knows what is coming, and who can tell him what will come after him?

Jeremiah 4:22

For My people are fools; they have not known Me. They are foolish children, without understanding. They are skilled... in doing evil, but they know not how to do good.”

Jeremiah 5:21

Hear... this, O foolish and senseless... people, who have eyes but do not see, who have ears but do not hear.