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# כָּסַל

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H3688

**be stupid** — 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

be stupid [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3688/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

כָּסַל: vb. become stupid [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3688/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. be or become stupid (NH Aramaic in deriv.; Arabic كَسِلَ be sluggish, so N Syriac in deriv.; orig. meaning possibly thick, plump, fat; hence in good sense: כְּסָלִים, loins, כֶּסֶל, כִּסְלָה confidence; in bad sense: כֶּסֶל, כִּסְלָה, כְּסִילוּת stupidity, folly, כְּסִיל stupid fellow)— Impf. יִכְסָ֑לוּ they become stupid Je 10:8 (‖ יִבְעֲרוּ they become brutish).

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 (6 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 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: they are foolish (1).

## In the verses

[Jeremiah 10:8](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.10.8/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.10.8/#tree)

וּבְאַחַ֖ת יִבְעֲר֣וּ וְיִכְסָ֑לוּ מוּסַ֥ר הֲבָלִ֖ים עֵ֥ץ הֽוּא׃

*Word for word:* and in one they.are.stupid and they.are.foolish \[the\].correction of.futilities \[is\].wood it

*JPS 1917:* But they are altogether brutish and foolish: the vanities by which they are instructed are but a stock;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/3688.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3688/): 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).