Hebrew noun (feminine) · H1947
הוֹלֵלָה
holelahho-lay-law'
madness
4 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: hôwlêlâh
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H1947is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 1 of 39Old Testament books
- 4spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H1947
folly
The King James renders it: madness.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
holelah is rendered "madness". It stands 4 times in the Hebrew text, across one book.
- Four of the uses stand in Ecclesiastes, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Ecclesiastes 1:17So I set my mind to know wisdom and madness and folly; I learned that this, too, is a pursuit of the wind.
- The Greek text spells it four different ways.
The first use
So I set my mind to know wisdom and madness and folly; I learned that this, too, is a pursuit of the wind.
Ecclesiastes 1:17הוֹלֵל֖וֹת
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Four of the word's four uses are in Ecclesiastes.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- and madness2
- madness2
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| הוֹלֵלוּת | holeluth | madness | Uses1 |
All 4, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
4 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- הוֹלֵל֖וֹת1
- הוֹלֵלֽוֹת׃1
- וְהוֹלֵל֖וֹת1
- וְהוֹלֵל֤וֹת1
The grammar of each form
- conjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine plural2HC/Ncfpa
- noun · feminine plural2HNcfpa
Ecclesiastes
four uses
So I set my mind to know wisdom and madness and folly; I learned that this, too, is a pursuit of the wind.
- הוֹלֵל֖וֹתholelotnoun · feminine pluraltagged: madness
Then I turned to consider wisdom and madness and folly; for what more can the king’s successor do than what has already been accomplished?
- וְהוֹלֵל֖וֹתveholelotconjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine pluraltagged: and madness
I directed my mind to understand, to explore, to search out wisdom and explanations, and to understand the stupidity of wickedness and the folly of madness.
- הוֹלֵלֽוֹת׃holelotnoun · feminine pluraltagged: madness
This is an evil in everything that is done under the sun: There is one fate for everyone. Furthermore, the hearts of men are full of evil and madness while they are alive, and afterward they join the dead.
- וְהוֹלֵל֤וֹתveholelotconjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine pluraltagged: and madness
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.