Hebrew verb · H5528
סָכַל
sakalsaw-kal'
be foolish
8 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: çâkal
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H5528is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 6 of 39Old Testament books
- 7spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H5528
to be silly
The King James renders it: do (make, play the, turn into) fool(-ish, -ishly, -ishness).
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
sakal is rendered "be foolish". It stands 8 times in the Hebrew text, across six books.
- Two of the uses stand in 1 Samuel, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 31:28But you did not even let me kiss my grandchildren and my daughters goodbye. Now you have done a foolish thing.
- The Greek text spells it seven different ways.
The first use
But you did not even let me kiss my grandchildren and my daughters goodbye. Now you have done a foolish thing.
Genesis 31:28הִסְכַּ֥לְתָּֽ
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Two of the word's eight uses are in 1 Samuel.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- I have acted foolishly2
- you have acted foolishly2
- he makes foolish1
- I have behaved foolishly1
- make foolish1
- you have behaved foolishly1
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.
All 8, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
7 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
- נִסְכַּ֖לְתִּי2
- הִסְכַּ֥לְתָּֽ1
- הִסְכַּ֛לְתִּי1
- יְשַׂכֵּֽל׃1
- נִסְכַּ֣לְתָּ1
- נִסְכָּ֑לְתָּ1
- סַכֶּל־1
The grammar of each form
- verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singular2HVNp1cs
- verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person masculine singular2HVNp2ms
- verb · causative (hiphil), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singular1HVhp1cs
- verb · causative (hiphil), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person masculine singular1HVhp2ms
- verb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singular1HVpi3ms
- verb · intensive (piel), command · 2nd person masculine singular1HVpv2ms
Genesis
one use
But you did not even let me kiss my grandchildren and my daughters goodbye. Now you have done a foolish thing.
- הִסְכַּ֥לְתָּֽhiskaltaverb · causative (hiphil), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you have behaved foolishly
1 Samuel
two uses
“You have acted foolishly,” Samuel declared. “You have not kept the command that the LORD your God gave you; if you had, the LORD would have established your kingdom over Israel for all time.
- נִסְכָּ֑לְתָּniskaltaverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you have acted foolishly
Then Saul replied, “I have sinned. Come back, David my son. I will never harm you again, because today you considered my life precious. I have played the fool and have committed a grave error!”
- הִסְכַּ֛לְתִּיhiskaltiverb · causative (hiphil), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I have behaved foolishly
2 Samuel
two uses
Now someone told David: “Ahithophel is among the conspirators with Absalom.” So David pleaded, “O LORD, please turn the counsel of Ahithophel into foolishness!”
- סַכֶּל־sakel-verb · intensive (piel), command · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: make foolish
After David had numbered the troops, his conscience was stricken and he said to the LORD, “I have sinned greatly in what I have done. Now, O LORD, I beg You to take away the iniquity of Your servant, for I have acted very foolishly.”
- נִסְכַּ֖לְתִּיniskaltiverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I have acted foolishly
1 Chronicles
one use
Then David said to God, “I have sinned greatly because I have done this thing. Now I beg You to take away the iniquity of Your servant, for I have acted very foolishly.”
- נִסְכַּ֖לְתִּיniskaltiverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I have acted foolishly
2 Chronicles
one use
For the eyes of the LORD roam to and fro over all the earth, to show Himself strong on behalf of those whose hearts are fully devoted to Him. You have acted foolishly in this matter. From now on, therefore, you will be at war.”
- נִסְכַּ֣לְתָּniskaltaverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you have acted foolishly
Isaiah
one use
who foils the signs of false prophets and makes fools of diviners, who confounds the wise and turns their knowledge into nonsense,
- יְשַׂכֵּֽל׃yesakelverb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he makes foolish
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.