Definition
from H5528; silly
Traditional renderings: fool(-ish), sottish.
Traditional renderings: fool(-ish), sottish.
In the Greek Old Testament
How the ancient Greek translation of the Old Testament renders סָכָל:
Usage patterns
Occurrences
7 total
- Ecclesiastes 2:19סָכָ֔ל · foolishAnd who knows whether that man will be wise or foolish? Yet he will take over all the labor at which I have worked skillfully under the sun. This too is futile.
- Ecclesiastes 7:17סָכָ֑ל · a foolDo not be excessively wicked, and do not be a fool. Why should you die before your time?
- Ecclesiastes 10:3כְּשֶׁהַסָּכָל · as the fool; סָכָ֥ל · is a foolEven as the fool walks along the road, his sense is lacking, and he shows everyone that he is a fool.
- Ecclesiastes 10:14וְהַסָּכָ֖ל · Yet the foolYet the fool multiplies words. No one knows what is coming, and who can tell him what will come after him?
- Jeremiah 4:22סְכָלִים֙ · are foolish“For My people are fools; they have not known Me. They are foolish children, without understanding. They are skilled in doing evil, but they know not how to do good.”
- Jeremiah 5:21סָכָ֖ל · O foolish“Hear this, O foolish and senseless people, who have eyes but do not see, who have ears but do not hear.