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# כְּסִיל

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H3684

**stupid fellow** — used 70 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

stupid fellow [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3684/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

כְּסִיל: n.m. stupid fellow, dullard, fool [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3684/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. stupid fellow, dullard, fool;—כ׳ ψ 49:11 + 44 times; pl. כְּסִילִים ψ 94:8 + 25 times;—‖ בער ψ 49:11; 92:7; 94:8, elsewhere only in WisdLt; he hates knowledge Pr 1:22; delights not in understanding 18:2; it is his sport to do mischief 10:23; his heart proclaimeth אִוֶּלֶת 12:23; his mouth poureth it forth 15:2, and feedeth on it 15:14.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 9 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (6 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (6 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: a fool (27); of fools (16); of a fool (8).

## In the verses

[Proverbs 3:35](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.3.35/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.3.35/#tree)

כָּ֭בוֹד חֲכָמִ֣ים יִנְחָ֑לוּ וּ֝כְסִילִ֗ים מֵרִ֥ים קָלֽוֹן׃פ

*Word for word:* honor wise.\[people\] they.will.inherit and fools \[is\].lifting.up shame

*JPS 1917:* The wise shall inherit honour; but as for the fools, they carry away shame.

[Proverbs 8:5](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.8.5/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.8.5/#tree)

הָבִ֣ינוּ פְתָאיִ֣ם עָרְמָ֑ה וּ֝כְסִילִ֗ים הָבִ֥ינוּ לֵֽב׃

*Word for word:* understand O.naive.people prudence and O.fools understand heart

*JPS 1917:* O ye thoughtless, understand prudence, and, ye fools, be ye of an understanding heart.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/3684.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3684/): 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).