אִוֶּלֶת
ivelet · folly
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H200 · appears 25 times in the Bible
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ivelet (אִוֶּלֶת) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “folly”.
Acting without thinking, without regard for God or for the consequences.
How to say it
i·ve·let
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
- Acting without sense, without thinking of God.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
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Where it appears
- Psalms 38:5
My wounds stink, they fester because of my folly.
- Psalms 69:5
Elohim, you know my folly, and my guilt is not hidden from you.
- Proverbs 5:23
He will die for lack of correction, and in the greatness of his folly he will be lost.
- Proverbs 12:23
A shrewd man covers knowledge, but the heart of the senseless proclaims folly.
- Proverbs 13:16
Every shrewd man acts with knowledge, but the senseless spreads out folly.
- Proverbs 14:1
The wise woman builds her house, but folly with her hands tears it down.
- Proverbs 14:8
The wisdom of the shrewd is to understand his way, but the folly of the senseless is deceit.
- Proverbs 14:17
One who is short of anger does folly, and a man of schemes is hated.
- Proverbs 14:18
The simple inherit folly, but the shrewd are crowned with knowledge.
- Proverbs 14:24
The crown of the wise is their riches; the folly of the senseless is folly.
- Proverbs 14:29
One who is slow to anger is great in insight, but one who is short of spirit exalts folly.
- Proverbs 15:2
The tongue of the wise makes knowledge good, but the mouth of the senseless pours out folly.
- Proverbs 15:14
The heart of the discerning seeks knowledge, but the mouth of the senseless feeds on folly.
- Proverbs 15:21
Folly is joy to one who is lacking in sense, but a man of insight makes straight his going.
- Proverbs 16:22
A fountain of life is prudence to those who have it, but the correction of fools is folly.
- Proverbs 17:12
Let a man meet a bear robbed of her cubs, and not a senseless man in his folly.
- Proverbs 18:13
Whoever answers a word before he hears, it is folly to him and humiliation.
- Proverbs 19:3
The folly of a man perverts his way, and against YHWH his heart rages.
- Proverbs 22:15
Folly is bound to the heart of a young man; the rod of correction will drive it far from him.
- Proverbs 24:9
The infamy of folly is sin, and the scoffer is an abomination to mankind.
- Proverbs 26:4
Do not answer a senseless man according to his folly, lest you become like him yourself also.
- Proverbs 26:5
Answer a senseless man according to his folly, lest he be wise in his own eyes.
- Proverbs 26:11
Like a dog that returns to its vomit is a senseless man who repeats his folly.
- Proverbs 27:22
If you pound the fool in the mortar among the grain with the pestle, his folly will not depart from him.
And 1 more times.