Strong's Hebrew Concordance

H8604: תִּפְלָה

tiphlâh · pronounced tif-law' · “folly”

Definition

frivolity

KJV translates it as: folly, foolishly.

Word origin: from the same as H8602 (תָּפֵל);

Extended definition

1) that which is empty, folly, silly, foolish
2) (BDB) unsavouriness, unseemliness (moral)

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

How H8604 is translated

  • offensiveness ×2
  • unseemliness ×1

Bible verses with H8604 (tiphlâh)

Tiphlâh appears in 3 verses.

  • Job 1:22

    In all this Job sinned not, nor charged God foolishly.

  • Job 24:12

    Men groan from out of the city, and the soul of the wounded crieth out: yet God layeth not folly to them.

  • Jeremiah 23:13

    And I have seen folly in the prophets of Samaria; they prophesied in Baal, and caused my people Israel to err.