סָכָל
çâkâl · H5530 · Hebrew · 7 occurrences
Meanings
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Behavior of a person without good sense or wisdom ((to act like a) fool, foolish)
ExamplesEcclesiastes 2:19 And who knows whether he will be wise or a fool? Yet he will have control over all the fruit of my labor for which I have labored by acting wisely under the sun. This too is futility.
Ecclesiastes 7:17 Do not be excessively wicked, and do not be foolish. Why should you die before your time?
Ecclesiastes 10:3 Even when the fool walks along the road, his sense is lacking, and he demonstrates to everyone that he is a fool.
How it’s used In 4 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Named alongside itApposition
2 occurrences in 2 groups
- בֵּןson 1
- עַםpeople 1
What it doesIt is the subject
2 occurrences in 2 groups
- הָלַךְto go, to walk 1
- רָבָהto increase 1
What is done to itIt is the object
2 occurrences in 1 groups
- הָיָהto be, to become 2
What is said to be itIt is the predicate
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- הוּאhe, she, it 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
- אֱוִלִי ʼĕvilîy · H196 · foolish
- Both words describe foolishness or a foolish person and could substitute in sense.
- אֱוִיל ʼĕvîyl · H191 · foolish
- The target lexeme and אֱוִיל are both Hebrew terms for a foolish person or foolish quality, and are true near-synonyms — two distinct words for ‘fool’ that could substitute for each other in many contexts.
In the other Testament 1 word
- ἄφρων áphrōn · G878 · foolish, senseless, unwise
- Greek ἄφρων denotes the mindless/foolish person across moral, intellectual, and practical dimensions, directly rendering Hebrew סָכָל's core sense of folly and foolishness in LXX translation contexts.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Foolish002001002010
- The adjective describing one who is foolish or sottish, sharing its domain with the verb and abstract noun built on the same root.
Word family 12 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H5530. sakal סָכָל noun masculine fool (on formation compare LagBN 48): — Jer 5:21; Ecc…
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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