אֱוִיל
ʼĕvîyl · H191 · Hebrew · 26 occurrences
Meanings
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foolish
Pertaining to being foolish, which manifests itself in a lack of fear of God, unwillingness to listen to advice, much talking, and being unable to conceal one's emotions
ExamplesProverbs 1:7 The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge; Fools despise wisdom and instruction.
Proverbs 7:22 Suddenly he follows her As an ox goes to the slaughter, Or as one walks in ankle bracelets to the discipline of a fool,
Proverbs 10:8 The wise of heart will receive commands, But a babbling fool will come to ruin.
How it’s used In 9 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive
2 occurrences in 1 groups
- שָׂפָהlip 2
Words describing itAdjectives, demonstratives, participles
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- חָרַשׁto be silent, to plow, to devise 1
Named alongside itApposition
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- אִישׁman, person, each 1
What it doesIt is the subject
11 occurrences in 10 groups
- Other words · 10 groups that occur once or twice (11) 11
What is done to itIt is the object
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- כָּתַשׁto pound 1
What it is said to bePredicate
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- עֶבֶדservant, slave 1
What is said to be itIt is the predicate
3 occurrences in 3 groups
- נָבִיאprophet 1
- עַםpeople 1
- שַׂרcommander, chief, official 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
2 occurrences in 1 groups
- לto/for 4
In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive
6 occurrences in 4 groups
- מוּסָרdiscipline, instruction 2
- פֶּהmouth 2
- דֶּרֶךְway, road 1
- כַּעַסvexation 1
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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Near synonyms 3 words
- סָכָל çâkâl · H5530 · (to act like a) fool, foolish
- Both denote foolish persons, two distinct Hebrew words for "fool" that could substitute for one another in most contexts.
- כְּסִיל kᵉçîyl · H3684 · foolish, dull, constellation
- Both denote foolishness or a fool, overlapping directly as words for one who lacks wisdom.
- בַּעַר baʻar · H1198 · dull, stupid, coarse
- Both words refer to foolish people, and as distinct words they can substitute in contexts describing foolishness.
Contrasting words 1 word
- חָכָם châkâm · H2450 · wise, intelligent, able
- The direct lexical opposite of אֱוִיל, denoting a wise or skillful person as opposed to a fool.
In the other Testament 1 word
- ἄφρων áphrōn · G878 · foolish, senseless, unwise
- Hebrew אֱוִיל (ʾĕwîl) and Greek ἄφρων (aphrōn) both denote a fool characterized by lack of wisdom or moral discernment, with ἄφρων serving as the standard LXX rendering of this Hebrew term for foolishness.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Foolish002001002010
- אֱוִיל names a fool, a person whose lack of sense leads to ruin, as the fool whose irritation brings death.
Word family 3 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H191. evil אֱוִיל26 adjective (foolish — ׳א Job 5:2 +; plural אֱוִילִים Psa 107:17 +,…
אֱוִיל26 adjective (foolish — ׳א Job 5:2 +; plural אֱוִילִים Psa 107:17 +, etc.; — foolish, Pro 29:9 (א ׳אִישׁ) Hos 9:7 (predicate of prophet); compare Isa 35:8, elsewhere
noun masculine fool (always morally bad), who despises wisdom & discipline Pro 1:7; Pro 15:5; mocks at guilt Pro 14:9; is quarrelsome Pro 20:3; licentious Pro 7:22; it is folly & useless to instruct him Pro 16:22; Pro 27:22 (19 t. Proverbs); compare also Jer 4:22; Job 5:2-3, Isa 19:11; Psa 107:17.
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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