סָכָל
sachal · witless, fool
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H5530 · appears 7 times in the Bible
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sachal (סָכָל) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “witless, fool”.
Foolish; a fool who acts without sense.
How to say it
sa·chal
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
- Foolish, without judgment.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
How it is translated
The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.
- witless ×5
- senseless ×2
Related words
Comes from
Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- Ecclesiastes 2:19
And who knows whether he will be wise or witless? Yet he will rule over all my toil at which I have toiled and in which I have been wise under the sun. This too is vapor.
- Ecclesiastes 7:17
Do not be wicked overmuch, and do not be witless; why should you die before your time?
- Ecclesiastes 10:3
And even on the road, when the witless walks, his heart is lacking, and he says to everyone that he is witless.
- Ecclesiastes 10:14
And the witless multiplies words; the human being does not know what will be, and what will be after him, who will tell him?
- Jeremiah 4:22
“For my people is foolish; me they do not know. They are senseless children, and they are not discerning. They are wise to do evil, but to do good they do not know.”
- Jeremiah 5:21
‘Hear now this, senseless people without heart, who have eyes but do not see, who have ears but do not hear.
And 1 more times.