sichlut · witlessness, folly

What it means

sichlut (סִכְלוּת) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “witlessness, folly”.

Folly, senseless behavior.

How to say it

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

1. Lack of judgment in thinking and acting, which spoils what is good.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

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 2:3

  I explored in my heart to draw my flesh with wine while my heart was guiding me with wisdom, and to lay hold on witlessness, until I might see what was good for human beings that they should do under the heavens during the number of the days of their life.

• 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 2:13

  And I saw that there is profit for wisdom over witlessness, as the profit of light over darkness.

• 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 10:1

  Flies of death make stink, make ferment the oil of the perfumer; weightier than wisdom, than honor, is a little witlessness.

• Ecclesiastes 10:13

  The beginning of the words of his mouth is witlessness, and the end of his mouth is evil madness.