Hebrew noun (masculine) · H5530
סָכָל
sakalsaw-kawl'
fool
7 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: çâkâl
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H5530is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 2 of 39Old Testament books
- 7spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H5530
silly
The King James renders it: fool(-ish), sottish.
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 "fool". It stands 7 times in the Hebrew text, across two books.
- Five of the uses stand in Ecclesiastes, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Ecclesiastes 2:19And who knows whether that man will be wise or foolish? Yet he will take over all the labor at which I have worked skillfully under the sun. This too is futile.
- The Greek text spells it seven different ways.
The first use
And who knows whether that man will be wise or foolish? Yet he will take over all the labor at which I have worked skillfully under the sun. This too is futile.
Ecclesiastes 2:19סָכָ֔ל
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Five of the word's seven 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
- a fool3
- and the fool1
- fool1
- fools1
- like when a fool1
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 7, 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
- וְהַסָּכָ֖ל1
- כְּשֶׁסָּכָ֥ל1
- סָכָ֔ל1
- סָכָ֑ל1
- סָכָ֥ל1
- סָכָ֖ל1
- סְכָלִים֙1
The grammar of each form
- adjective · masculine singular4HAamsa
- adjective · masculine plural1HAampa
- conjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + adjective · masculine singular1HC/Td/Aamsa
- preposition + relative particle (“who / which”) + adjective · masculine singular1HR/Tr/Aamsa
Ecclesiastes
five uses
And who knows whether that man will be wise or foolish? Yet he will take over all the labor at which I have worked skillfully under the sun. This too is futile.
- סָכָ֔לsakhaladjective · masculine singulartagged: a fool
Do not be excessively wicked, and do not be a fool. Why should you die before your time?
- סָכָ֑לsakhaladjective · masculine singulartagged: a fool
Even as the fool walks along the road, his sense is lacking, and he shows everyone that he is a fool.
- כְּשֶׁסָּכָ֥לkeshesakhalpreposition + relative particle (“who / which”) + adjective · masculine singulartagged: like when a fool
- סָכָ֥לsakhaladjective · masculine singulartagged: a fool
Yet the fool multiplies words. No one knows what is coming, and who can tell him what will come after him?
- וְהַסָּכָ֖לvehasakhalconjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + adjective · masculine singulartagged: and the fool
Jeremiah
two uses
“For My people are fools; they have not known Me. They are foolish children, without understanding. They are skilled in doing evil, but they know not how to do good.”
- סְכָלִים֙sekhalimadjective · masculine pluraltagged: fools
“Hear this, O foolish and senseless people, who have eyes but do not see, who have ears but do not hear.
- סָכָ֖לsakhaladjective · masculine singulartagged: fool
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.