Strong's Hebrew Concordance

H5530: סָכָל

çâkâl · pronounced saw-kawl' · “fool”

Definition

silly

KJV translates it as: fool(-ish), sottish.

Word origin: from H5528 (סָכַל);

Extended definition

fool

Brief lexicon based on BDB via STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0).

How H5530 is translated

  • a fool ×3
  • fool ×2
  • is a fool ×1
  • fools ×1

Bible verses with H5530 (çâkâl)

Çâkâl appears in 6 verses.

  • Ecclesiastes 2:19

    And who knoweth whether he shall be a wise man or a fool? yet shall he have rule over all my labour wherein I have laboured, and wherein I have shewed myself wise under the sun. This is also vanity.

  • Ecclesiastes 7:17

    Be not over much wicked, neither be thou foolish: why shouldest thou die before thy time?

  • Ecclesiastes 10:3

    Yea also, when he that is a fool walketh by the way, his wisdom faileth him, and he saith to every one that he is a fool.

  • Ecclesiastes 10:14

    A fool also is full of words: a man cannot tell what shall be; and what shall be after him, who can tell him?

  • Jeremiah 4:22

    For my people is foolish, they have not known me; they are sottish children, and they have none understanding: they are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.

  • Jeremiah 5:21

    Hear now this, O foolish people, and without understanding; which have eyes, and see not; which have ears, and hear not: