הוֹלֵלָה
holela · madness
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H1947 · appears 4 times in the Bible
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holela (הוֹלֵלָה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “madness”.
Senseless folly.
How to say it
ho·le·la
Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.
Its senses in the Bible
- A lack of judgment that leads to living without sense or measure.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
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Where it appears
- Ecclesiastes 1:17
And I gave my heart to know wisdom and to know madness and witlessness; I knew that this also is striving after wind.
- Ecclesiastes 2:12
And I turned to see wisdom and madness and witlessness; for what will the man who comes after the king do? What they have already done.
- Ecclesiastes 7:25
I turned, I and my heart, to know and to explore and to seek wisdom and the reckoning, and to know the wickedness of senselessness and the witlessness of madness.
- Ecclesiastes 9:3
This is an evil in all that is done under the sun, that one fate comes to all; and also the heart of human beings is full of evil, and madness is in their heart during their life, and afterward they go to the dead.