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Fool
Featured studies
3 results- StudyThe Rich FoolA featured study on this subject, with its Scripture, its sources and its figures.
- StudyThe Great Reversal: the Ledger of LukeLuke keeps accounts: the low lifted, the self-secure emptied: the Magnificat, the blessings and woes, the banquet, Lazarus, and Zacchaeus as one ledger.
- StudyProverbs: the Study GuideSkill for living in the fear of the LORD: the six collections the book names itself, the keystone that frames it, and the genre key that keeps a proverb from being read as a promise.
Verses
179 results- VerseEcclesiastes 4:5The fool folds his hands and consumes his own flesh.
- VerseJob 5:2For resentment kills a fool, and envy slays the simple.
- VerseProverbs 17:21A man fathers a fool to his own grief; the father of a fool has no joy.
- VerseProverbs 15:5A fool rejects his father’s discipline, but whoever heeds correction is prudent.
- VerseProverbs 10:23The fool delights in shameful conduct, but a man of understanding has wisdom.
People
1 resultWords (Strong's)
- WordH196 אֱוִלִי · ʼĕvilîy (Hebrew)silly, foolish. The Hebrew word stands 1 time in the original text.
- WordH3684 כְּסִיל · kᵉçîyl (Hebrew)properly, fat, i.e. (figuratively) stupid or silly. The Hebrew word stands 70 times in the original text.
- WordH191 אֱוִיל · ʼĕvîyl (Hebrew)(figuratively) silly. The Hebrew word stands 26 times in the original text.
- WordH1198 בַּעַר · baʻar (Hebrew)properly, foot (as consumed). The Hebrew word stands 5 times in the original text.
- WordH3687 כְּסִילוּת · kᵉçîylûwth (Hebrew)silliness. The Hebrew word stands 1 time in the original text.
Themes
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3 results- VoiceAsterius of CappadociaAsterius was a Cappadocian, trained as a sophist — a professional teacher of rhetoric — and a pupil of Lucian of Antioch, the same teacher Arius claimed. He is usually called…
- VoiceTim KellerTimothy James Keller was born in Allentown, Pennsylvania, on September 23, 1950. He grew up in a Lutheran church, went to Bucknell University in the late 1960s, and there…
- VoiceJim ElliotJim Elliot was a wrestler and a Greek student at Wheaton College who decided while still a student that he would spend his life where the gospel had never been. He reached…
Apocrypha (study resources)
59 results- Study resourceSirach 8:17Consult not with a fool; for he cannot keep counsel.
- Study resourceWisdom of Solomon 3:12Their wives are foolish, and their children wicked:
- Study resourceSirach 18:18A fool will upbraid churlishly, and a gift of the envious consumeth the eyes.
- Study resourceSirach 19:11A fool travaileth with a word, as a woman in labour of a child.
- Study resourceSirach 21:20A fool lifteth up his voice with laughter; but a wise man doth scarce smile a little.