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# 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 →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/5530/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

סָכָל: n.m. fool [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/5530/#m2)

**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](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/ECC.7.17/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/ECC.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](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/ECC.10.3/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/ECC.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

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/5530.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/5530/): 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).