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# פַּשׁ

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H6580

**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/1508/6580/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

פַּשׁ: folly [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6580/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] Jb 35:15 si vera l. from √ פשׁשׁ (cf. Arabic فَسِيسٌ weak in mind or body, فَسْفَاسٌ very stupid);—i.e. folly; but read פֶּשַׁע (𝔊 Theod Symm 𝔙 Di BaeKau Du).

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

[Job 35:15](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.35.15/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.35.15/#tree)

וְעַתָּ֗ה כִּי־אַ֭יִן פָּקַ֣ד אַפּ֑וֹ וְלֹֽא־יָדַ֖ע בַּפַּ֣שׁ מְאֹֽד׃

*Word for word:* and now (dm) not it.has.punished anger his and not he.knows in (the) folly exceedingly

*JPS 1917:* And now, is it for nought that He punished in His anger? And hath He not full knowledge of arrogance?

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/6580.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6580/): 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).