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# פְּתַיּוּת

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H6615

**silliness** — 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

silliness [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6615/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

פְּתַיּוּת: n.f. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6615/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. id. Pr 9:13 (Toy conj. מְפַּתָּה).

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, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (3 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: naiveté (1).

## In the verses

[Proverbs 9:13](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.9.13/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.9.13/#tree)

אֵ֣שֶׁת כְּ֭סִילוּת הֹֽמִיָּ֑ה פְּ֝תַיּ֗וּת וּבַל־יָ֥דְעָה מָּֽה׃

*Word for word:* a.woman of.folly \[is\].boisterous naiveté and not she.knows whatever

*JPS 1917:* The woman Folly is riotous; she is thoughtless, and knoweth nothing.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6615/): 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).