סָכָל
sākāl
fool
Strong's H5530NounHebrewTWOT 1493a

סָכָל (sākāl) is a Hebrew noun meaning fool. It appears 8 times in 2 books of the Hebrew Bible (Strong's H5530).

Same Hebrew root (TWOT 1493a)

Range of meaning (TWOT 1493a)fool; silly; foolish, sottish
Full entry: Brown-Driver-Briggs and Strong's

סָכָל noun, masculine: fool

Strong's H5530 סָכָל: silly
KJV:fool(-ish), sottish.

Meanings: Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906) and Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1890), public domain, via the Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project (CC BY 4.0). TWOT numbers for reference only.

Root family 1493: סָכַל sākal — be foolish, a fool; make foolish, turn into foolishness; act, do foolishly; play the fool; be silly; do fool, do foolish, do foolishness

See it in Scripture

Ecclesiastes 2:19Jeremiah 4:22

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