סָכָל

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H5530

fool — used 7 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

Meaning

OpenScriptures lexical index

fool tree →

Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

סָכָל: n.m. fool tree →

The whole BDB entry

n.m. fool (on format. cf. LagBN 48);—Je 5:21; Ec 2:19; 7:17; 10:3(×2), 14; pl. adj. סְכָלִים Je 4:22.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 6 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (3 candidates)

Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: fool (3); a fool (2); [is] a fool (1).

In the verses

Ecclesiastes 7:17 · tree →

אַל־תִּרְשַׁ֥ע הַרְבֵּ֖ה וְאַל־תְּהִ֣י סָכָ֑ל לָ֥מָּה תָמ֖וּת בְּלֹ֥א עִתֶּֽךָ׃

Word for word: do.not be.wicked greatly and do.not be a.fool why? will.you.die at not time your

JPS 1917: Be not overmuch wicked, neither be thou foolish; why shouldest thou die before thy time?

Ecclesiastes 10:3 · tree →

וְגַם־בַּדֶּ֛רֶךְ כְּשֶׁסָּכָ֥להֹלֵ֖ךְ לִבּ֣וֹ חָסֵ֑ר וְאָמַ֥ר לַכֹּ֖ל סָכָ֥ל הֽוּא׃

Word for word: and also on the way when a fool [is].walking heart his he.lacks and he.says to (the) everyone [is].a.fool he

JPS 1917: Yea also, when a fool walketh by the way, his understanding faileth him, and he saith to every one that he is a fool.

On Mova

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Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).

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