Lexicon entry · Hebrew
H5531Bסִכְלוּתsikh.lut
follyPart of speech: Hebrew Noun (Feminine)
Show inJPS Tanakh 1917
Occurrences by book
- Genesis: 0
- Exodus: 0
- Leviticus: 0
- Numbers: 0
- Deuteronomy: 0
- Joshua: 0
- Judges: 0
- Ruth: 0
- 1 Samuel: 0
- 2 Samuel: 0
- 1 Kings: 0
- 2 Kings: 0
- 1 Chronicles: 0
- 2 Chronicles: 0
- Ezra: 0
- Nehemiah: 0
- Esther: 0
- Job: 0
- Psalms: 0
- Proverbs: 0
- 6
- Song of Songs: 0
- Isaiah: 0
- Jeremiah: 0
- Lamentations: 0
- Ezekiel: 0
- Daniel: 0
- Hosea: 0
- Joel: 0
- Amos: 0
- Obadiah: 0
- Jonah: 0
- Micah: 0
- Nahum: 0
- Habakkuk: 0
- Zephaniah: 0
- Haggai: 0
- Zechariah: 0
- Malachi: 0
Renderings
JPS Tanakh 1917 is not aligned yet, so there are no renderings to show.
Other meanings of H5531
- H5531Aשִׂכְלוּתsikh.lutfolly
H:N-FOccurrences: 1
6 occurrences in 6 verses
With their references and text in JPS Tanakh 1917.
I searched in my heart how to pamper my flesh with wine, and, my heart conducting itself with wisdom, how yet to lay hold on folly, till I might see which it was best for the sons of men that they should do under the heaven the few days of their life.
בְּסִכְל֔וּת (סִכְל֔וּת) sikh.Lut “folly”
And I turned myself to behold wisdom, and madness and folly; for what can the man do that cometh after the king? even that which hath been already done.
וְסִכְל֑וּת (סִכְל֑וּת) sikh.Lut “folly”
Then I saw that wisdom excelleth folly, as far as light excelleth darkness.
הַסִּכְל֑וּת (סִּכְל֑וּת) sikh.Lut “folly”
I turned about, and applied my heart to know and to search out, and to seek wisdom and the reason of things, and to know wickedness to be folly, and foolishness to be madness;
וְהַסִּכְל֖וּת (סִּכְל֖וּת) sikh.Lut “folly”
Dead flies make the ointment of the perfumer fetid and putrid; so doth a little folly outweigh wisdom and honour.
סִכְל֥וּת sikh.Lut “folly”
The beginning of the words of his mouth is foolishness; and the end of his talk is grievous madness.
סִכְל֑וּת sikh.Lut “[is] folly”