כְּסִילוּת
kᵉçîylûwth · H3687 · Hebrew · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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foolishness or folly
A state of absence of wisdom, possibly due to overconfidence, which manifests itself in immoral behavior
ExamplesProverbs 9:13 A woman of foolishness is boisterous, She has a lack of understanding and knows nothing.
How it’s used In 1 role
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- אִשָּׁהwoman, wife 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 2 words
- תִּפְלָה tiphlâh · H8604 · irrationality, senselessness
- Both words denote foolishness or folly as an abstract quality.
- נְבָלָה nᵉbâlâh · H5039 · foolishness, folly, foolish actions
- Both words denote foolishness or folly; they are different Hebrew words for overlapping senses of foolishness.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Foolish002001002010
- This word is an abstract noun meaning "folly" or "foolishness," formed from the same root as כְּסִיל (kᵉçîyl, H3684), so it belongs among words for foolishness.
Word family 12 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H3687. kesiluth כְּסִילוּת noun feminine stupidity; — Pro 9:13 כ ׳אֵשֶׁת, the woman…
כְּסִילוּת noun feminine stupidity; — Pro 9:13 כ ׳אֵשֶׁת, the woman Stupidity, in antithesis with חָכְמוֺת the Supreme Wisdom personified as a woman.
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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