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# אֱוִלִי

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H196

**silly** — used 1 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 1 verse word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

silly [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/196/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

אֱוִלִי: adj. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/196/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** adj. id. Zc 11:15.

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

## In the verses

[Zechariah 11:15](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ZEC.11.15/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ZEC.11.15/#tree)

וַיֹּ֥אמֶר יְהוָ֖ה אֵלָ֑י ע֣וֹד קַח־לְךָ֔ כְּלִ֖י רֹעֶ֥ה אֱוִלִֽי׃

*Word for word:* and he.said Yahweh to me again take for yourself \[the\].equipment of.a.shepherd foolish

*JPS 1917:* And the LORD said unto me: 'Take unto thee yet the instruments of a foolish shepherd.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/196.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/196/): 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).