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# אֱוִיל

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H191

**foolish** — used 26 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

foolish [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/191/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

אֱוִיל: adj. foolish n.m. fool [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/191/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** adj. foolish—א׳ Jb 5:2 +; pl. אֱוִילִים ψ 107:17 +, etc.;—foolish, Pr 29:9 (אִישׁ א׳) Ho 9:7 (pred. of prophet); cf. Is 35:8, elsewhere n.m. fool (always morally bad), who despises wisdom & discipline Pr 1:7; 15:5; mocks at guilt 14:9; is quarrelsome 20:3; licentious 7:22; it is folly & useless to instruct him 16:22; 27:22 (19 times Pr); cf. also Je 4:22; Jb 5:2, 3; Is 19:11 ψ 107:17.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 15 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (26 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (20 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: a fool (9); fools (6); of a fool (5).

## In the verses

[Proverbs 14:9](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.14.9/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.14.9/#tree)

אֱ֭וִלִים יָלִ֣יץ אָשָׁ֑ם וּבֵ֖ין יְשָׁרִ֣ים רָצֽוֹן׃

*Word for word:* fools he.mocks guilt and.\[is\] between upright.\[people\] favor

*JPS 1917:* Amends pleadeth for fools; but among the upright there is good will.

[Proverbs 10:8](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.10.8/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.10.8/#tree)

חֲכַם־לֵ֭ב יִקַּ֣ח מִצְוֺ֑ת וֶאֱוִ֥יל שְׂ֝פָתַ֗יִם יִלָּבֵֽט׃

*Word for word:* a.\[person\].wise of.heart he.accepts commandments and a.fool of.lips he.will.be.ruined

*JPS 1917:* The wise in heart will receive commandments; but a prating fool shall fall.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/191.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/191/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

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).