69 occurrences

'Fool' in the Bible

Balaam answered the donkey, “You made me look like a fool. If I had a sword in my hand, I’d kill you now!”

Now consider carefully what you must do, because there is certain to be trouble for our master and his entire family. He is such a worthless fool nobody can talk to him!”

Saul responded, “I have sinned. Come back, my son David, I will never harm you again because today you considered my life precious. I have been a fool! I’ve committed a grave error.”

and the king sang a lament for Abner:Should Abner die as a fool dies?

I have seen a fool taking root,but I immediately pronounced a curse on his home.

I was stupid and didn’t understand;I was an unthinking animal toward You.

The one who brings ruin on his householdwill inherit the wind,and a fool will be a slaveto someone whose heart is wise.

Every sensible person acts knowledgeably,but a fool displays his stupidity.

Better for a man to meet a bear robbed of her cubsthan a fool in his foolishness.

Why does a fool have money in his handwith no intention of buying wisdom?

Even a fool is considered wise when he keeps silent,discerning when he seals his lips. >

Luxury is not appropriate for a fool—how much less for a slave to rule over princes!

Wisdom is inaccessible to a fool;he does not open his mouth at the gate.

Answer a fool according to his foolishnessor he’ll become wise in his own eyes.

A proverb in the mouth of a foolis like lame legs that hang limp.

A proverb in the mouth of a foolis like a stick with thorns,brandished by the hand of a drunkard.

The one who hires a fool or who hires those passing byis like an archer who wounds everyone.

Though you grind a foolin a mortar with a pestle along with grain,you will not separate his foolishness from him.

If a wise man goes to court with a fool,there will be ranting and raving but no resolution.

The wise man has eyes in his head,but the fool walks in darkness.Yet I also knew that one fate comes to them both.

So I said to myself, “What happens to the fool will also happen to me. Why then have I been overly wise?” And I said to myself that this is also futile.

For, just like the fool, there is no lasting remembrance of the wise man, since in the days to come both will be forgotten. How is it that the wise man dies just like the fool?

And who knows whether he will be a wise man or a fool? Yet he will take over all my work that I labored at skillfully under the sun. This too is futile.

The fool folds his armsand consumes his own flesh.

What advantage then does the wise man have over the fool? What advantage is there for the poor person who knows how to conduct himself before others?

for like the crackling of burning thorns under the pot,so is the laughter of the fool.This too is futile.

Surely, the practice of extortion turns a wise person into a fool,and a bribe destroys the mind.

Even when the fool walks along the road, his heart lacks sense,and he shows everyone he is a fool.

The fool is appointed to great heights,but the rich remain in lowly positions.

The words from the mouth of a wise man are gracious,but the lips of a fool consume him.

Yet the fool multiplies words.No one knows what will happen,and who can tell anyone what will happen after him?

A fool will no longer be called a noble,nor a scoundrel said to be important.

For a fool speaks foolishnessand his mind plots iniquity.He lives in a godless wayand speaks falsely about the Lord.He leaves the hungry emptyand deprives the thirsty of drink.

A road will be there and a way;it will be called the Holy Way.The unclean will not travel on it,but it will be for the one who walks the path.Even the fool will not go astray.

Then I thought:They are just the poor;they have played the fool.For they don’t understand the way of the Lord,the justice of their God.

The days of punishment have come;the days of retribution have come.Let Israel recognize it!The prophet is a fool,and the inspired man is insane,because of the magnitudeof your guilt and hostility.

I repeat: No one should consider me a fool. But if you do, at least accept me as a fool, so I too may boast a little.

For if I want to boast, I will not be a fool, because I will be telling the truth. But I will spare you, so that no one can credit me with something beyond what he sees in me or hears from me,

I have become a fool; you forced it on me. I should have been endorsed by you, since I am not in any way inferior to the “super-apostles,” even though I am nothing.

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Root Form
Definition
Usage
אויל 
'eviyl 
Usage: 26

אולי 
'eviliy 
Usage: 1

אוּלת 
'ivveleth 
Usage: 25

בּער 
Ba`ar 
Usage: 5

הלל 
Halal 
Usage: 165

יאל 
Ya'al 
Usage: 4

כּסיל 
K@ciyl 
Usage: 70

כּסילוּת 
K@ciyluwth 
Usage: 1

כּסל 
Kacal 
Usage: 1

נבל 
Nabel 
Usage: 25

נבל 
Nabal 
Usage: 18

סכל 
Cakal 
Usage: 8

סכל 
Cakal 
Usage: 7

שׂכלוּת סכלוּת 
Cikluwth 
Usage: 7

פּתאי פּתי פּתי 
P@thiy 
Usage: 19

תּפל 
Taphel 
Usage: 7

תּפלה 
Tiphlah 
Usage: 3

ἀνόητος 
Anoetos 
Usage: 5

ἄσοφος 
Asophos 
Usage: 1

ἀσύνετος 
Asunetos 
Usage: 3

ἀφροσύνη 
Aphrosune 
Usage: 3

ἄφρων 
Aphron 
Usage: 9

μωραίνω 
Moraino 
Usage: 2

μωρία 
Moria 
Usage: 5

μωρολογία 
Morologia 
Usage: 1

μωρός 
Moros 
Usage: 6

παραφρονέω 
Paraphroneo 
as a fool
Usage: 1

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