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# סֶכֶל

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H5529

**folly** — 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

folly [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/5529/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

סֶ֫כֶל: n.m. folly [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/5529/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. folly;—Ec 10:6.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 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: folly (1).

## In the verses

[Ecclesiastes 10:6](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/ECC.10.6/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/ECC.10.6/#tree)

נִתַּ֣ן הַסֶּ֔כֶל בַּמְּרוֹמִ֖ים רַבִּ֑ים וַעֲשִׁירִ֖ים בַּשֵּׁ֥פֶל יֵשֵֽׁבוּ׃

*Word for word:* it.is.put (the) folly in.(the) high places many and rich.\[people\] in the.low place they.sit

*JPS 1917:* Folly is set on great heights, and the rich sit in low place.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/5529.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/5529/): 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).