אֱוִלִי
ʼĕvilîy · H196 · Hebrew · 1 occurrence
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
ExamplesZechariah 11:15 And the LORD said to me, “Take again for yourself the equipment of a foolish shepherd.
How it’s used
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
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 4 words
- סָכָל çâkâl · H5530 · (to act like a) fool, foolish
- Both words describe foolishness or a foolish person, as adjective or noun, and could substitute in sense.
- נָבָל nâbâl · H5036 · fool, impious person, wanton fool
- Both words denote foolishness, as distinct Hebrew roots for overlapping ideas of foolishness.
- כְּסִיל kᵉçîyl · H3684 · foolish, dull, constellation
- Both are foolishness-related terms that function as near-synonyms in context—one describing foolish behavior, the other a fool—both denoting a lack of wisdom.
- בַּעַר baʻar · H1198 · dull, stupid, coarse
- Both words denote foolishness or lack of wisdom. בַּעַר (baʻar, H1198), "brutish (person)," and אֱוִלִי (ʼĕvilîy, H196), "foolish," both describe intellectual or moral deficiency.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Foolish002001002010
- אֱוִלִי describes something foolish, as the foolish shepherd Zechariah is told to represent in his prophetic act.
Word family 3 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H196. evili אֱוִלִי adjective id. Zec 11:15.
אֱוִלִי adjective id. Zec 11:15.
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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