הוֹלֵלוּת
hôwlêlûwth · H1948 · Hebrew · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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madness
State in which an action is regarded as abnormal and associated with people who are insane
ExamplesEcclesiastes 10:13 the beginning of his talking is foolishness, and the end of it is evil insanity.
How it’s used In 2 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Words describing itAdjectives, demonstratives, participles
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- רַעevil, bad 1
What is said to be itIt is the predicate
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- אַחֲרִיתend, future, latter part 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 5 words
- נְבָלָה nᵉbâlâh · H5039 · foolishness, folly, foolish actions
- Both words denote states or manifestations of irrationality or foolishness, madness in one case and folly in the other, and could substitute in contexts describing foolish behavior or thought.
- שִׁגָּעוֹן shiggâʻôwn · H7697 · madness
- Both words denote forms of mental derangement or madness. The meanings ("madness" and "furiously, madness") overlap; they are two distinct Hebrew words expressing closely related states of irrationality.
- תִּפְלָה tiphlâh · H8604 · irrationality, senselessness
- "Madness" and "folly" are semantically overlapping terms denoting irrational or senseless behavior/mindset, genuine same-language near-synonyms. This is real domain-level evidence that would support inclusion, but cannot be exhaustively verified here.
- סִכְלוּת çiklûwth · H5531 · folly, foolishness
- Both words denote mental or behavioral states marked by lack of wisdom or rationality and could substitute in contexts describing foolish conduct or thinking.
- אִוֶּלֶת ʼivveleth · H200 · folly
- Both denote mental or behavioral irrationality—madness and folly—two distinct Hebrew words for overlapping concepts of irrational thought or behavior.
Semantic domains 1 entry
Word family 7 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H1948. holeluth הוֺלֵלוּת noun feminine id. (formed unusually from the participle, an…
הוֺלֵלוּת noun feminine id. (formed unusually from the participle, an Aramaic formation, compare BaNB 414 f.) רָעָה הוֺלֵלוּת מִּיהוּ וְאַחֲרִית סִכְלוּת דִּבְּרֵיפִֿיהוּ תְּהִּלַּת Ecc 10:13 the beginning of the words of his mouth is folly, and the end of his mouth (his speech) is evil madness.
הַלֲלוּיָהֿ הַלֲלוּיָהּ, see הלל
Pi`el
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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