סָכָלçâkâl
fool (Jeremiah 5:21; Ecclesiastes 2:19; Ecclesiastes 7:17; Ecclesiastes 10:3; Ecclesiastes 10:14)
Pronunciation: saw-kawl' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H5530
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 7 times in the Bible.
- Ecclesiastes 2:19 And who can tell whether my successors will be wise or foolish? Yet they will control everything I have gained by my skill and hard work under the sun. How meaningless!
- Ecclesiastes 7:17 On the other hand, don’t be too wicked either. Don’t be a fool! Why die before your time?
- Ecclesiastes 10:3 You can identify fools just by the way they walk down the street!
- Ecclesiastes 10:14 they chatter on and on. No one really knows what is going to happen; no one can predict the future.
- Jeremiah 4:22 “My people are foolish and do not know me,” says the Lord. “They are stupid children who have no understanding. They are clever enough at doing wrong, but they have no idea how to do right!”
- Jeremiah 5:21 Listen, you foolish and senseless people, with eyes that do not see and ears that do not hear.
Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).