כִּסְלָה
kiçlâh · H3690 · Hebrew · 2 occurrences
Meanings
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confidence, trust
State where humans feel confident due to their reliance on God or something else for protection
ExamplesJob 4:6 “Is your fear of God not your confidence, And the integrity of your ways your hope?
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foolishness, folly
State in which humans lack wisdom, possibly due to overconfidence, which can manifest itself, among other things, in relying on wealth rather than on God
ExamplesPsalm 85:8 I will hear what God the LORD will say; For He will speak peace to His people, to His godly ones; And may they not turn back to foolishness.
How it’s used In 3 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
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- ךָyour 1
What it is said to bePredicate
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- יִרְאָהfear 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- לto/for 2
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
- אִוֶּלֶת ʼivveleth · H200 · folly
- Both words denote folly. The target term also has a sense of assurance and is attested only twice.
- תִּפְלָה tiphlâh · H8604 · irrationality, senselessness
- Both lexemes are nouns denoting folly/foolishness, a genuine semantic overlap consistent with near-synonymy. כִּסְלָה (kiçlâh, H3690) also belongs to "Confident," which may indicate a slightly different nuance (perhaps overconfidence), but the "folly" sense is shared.
Semantic domains 2 entries
- Confident002001002003
- This abstract noun, from the same root family as כֶּסֶל (keçel, H3689), carries the sense of confidence or trust placed in something, so it belongs among words for confidence.
- Foolish002001002010
- The same word also carries the sense of folly, a lack of wisdom, so it also 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 H3690. kislah כִּסְלָה noun feminine (GieZAW i, 1881, 304). 1 stupidity Psa 85:9 (but…
Topical studies with this word 2 entries
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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