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Lexicon :: Strong's H5531 - siḵlûṯ

Aa
סִכְלוּת
Transliteration
siḵlûṯ
Pronunciation
sik-looth'
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Part of Speech
masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
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TWOT Reference: 1493c,1493d

Strong’s Definitions

סִכְלוּת çiklûwth, sik-looth'; or שִׂכְלוּת siklûwth; (Ecclesiastes 1:17), from H5528; silliness:—folly, foolishness.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 7x

The KJV translates Strong's H5531 in the following manner: folly (5x), foolishness (2x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 7x
The KJV translates Strong's H5531 in the following manner: folly (5x), foolishness (2x).

  1. folly, foolishness

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
סִכְלוּת çiklûwth, sik-looth'; or שִׂכְלוּת siklûwth; (Ecclesiastes 1:17), from H5528; silliness:—folly, foolishness.
STRONGS H5531: Abbreviations
† סִכְלוּת, שִׂכְלוּת noun feminine folly; — ס׳ Ecclesiastes 2:3, 12, 13; Ecclesiastes 7:25; Ecclesiastes 10:1, 13; שׁ׳ Ecclesiastes 1:17 (שׂ erroneously for ס).
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Ecclesiastes

1:17; 2:3; 2:12; 2:13; 7:25; 10:1; 10:13

H5531

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H5531 matches the Hebrew סִכְלוּת (siḵlûṯ),
which occurs 7 times in 7 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 1:17

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 1:17 - And I gave my heart to getting knowledge of wisdom, and of the ways of the foolish. And I saw that this again was desire for wind.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 2:3

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 2:3 - I made a search with my heart to give pleasure to my flesh with wine, still guiding my heart with wisdom, and to go after foolish things, so that I might see what was good for the sons of men to do under the heavens all the days of their life.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 2:12

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 2:12 - And I went again in search of wisdom and of foolish ways. What may the man do who comes after the king? The thing which he has done before.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 2:13

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 2:13 - Then I saw that wisdom is better than foolish ways--as the light is better than the dark.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 7:25

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 7:25 - I gave my mind to knowledge and to searching for wisdom and the reason of things, and to the discovery that sin is foolish, and that to be foolish is to be without one's senses.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 10:1

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 10:1 - Dead flies make the oil of the perfumer give out an evil smell; more valued is a little wisdom than the great glory of the foolish.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 10:13

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 10:13 - The first words of his mouth are foolish, and the end of his talk is evil crime.
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