1 Samuel 26:21
Then said Saul, I have sinned: return, my son David: for I will no more do thee harm, because my soul was precious in thine eyes this day: behold, I have played the fool, and have erred exceedingly.
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Fool
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2 Corinthians 12:11
I am become a fool in glorying; ye have compelled me: for I ought to have been commended of you: for in nothing am I behind the very chiefest apostles, though I be nothing.
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כְּסִיל
kᵉçîyl · kes-eel'
34 times translated as this KJV form70 total Strong's occurrences
properly, fat, i.e. (figuratively) stupid or silly
Strong's KJV usage: fool(-ish).
Strong's first: Psalms 49:10Strong's last: Ecclesiastes 10:12
Open full H3684 profile →אֱוִיל
ʼĕvîyl · ev-eel'
11 times translated as this KJV form26 total Strong's occurrences
(figuratively) silly
Strong's KJV usage: fool(-ish) (man).
Strong's first: Proverbs 7:22Strong's last: Hosea 9:7
Open full H191 profile →נָבָל
nâbâl · naw-bawl'
7 times translated as this KJV form18 total Strong's occurrences
stupid; wicked (especially impious)
Strong's KJV usage: fool(-ish, -ish man, -ish woman), vile person.
Strong's first: 2 Samuel 3:33Strong's last: Jeremiah 17:11
Open full H5036 profile →ἄφρων
áphrōn · af'-rone
6 times translated as this KJV form11 total Strong's occurrences
properly, mindless, i.e. stupid, (by implication) ignorant, (specially) egotistic, (practically) rash, or (morally) unbelieving
Strong's KJV usage: :--fool(-ish), unwise.
Strong's first: Luke 12:20Strong's last: 2 Corinthians 12:11
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çâkâl · saw-kawl'
4 times translated as this KJV form7 total Strong's occurrences
silly
Strong's KJV usage: fool(-ish), sottish.
Strong's first: Ecclesiastes 2:19Strong's last: Ecclesiastes 10:14
Open full H5530 profile →μωρός
mōrós · mo-ros'
2 times translated as this KJV form13 total Strong's occurrences
dull or stupid (as if shut up), i.e. heedless, (morally) blockhead, (apparently) absurd
Strong's KJV usage: :--fool(-ish, X -ishness).
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Matthew 5:22Strong's last: 1 Corinthians 3:18
Open full G3474 profile →παραφρονέω
paraphronéō · par-af-ron-eh'-o
1 times translated as this KJV form1 total Strong's occurrences
to misthink, i.e. be insane (silly)
Strong's KJV usage: :--as a fool.
Strong's first: 2 Corinthians 11:23Strong's last: 2 Corinthians 11:23
Open full G3912 profile →סָכַל
çâkal · saw-kal'
1 times translated as this KJV form8 total Strong's occurrences
to be silly
Strong's KJV usage: do (make, play the, turn into) fool(-ish, -ishly, -ishness).
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: 1 Samuel 26:21Strong's last: 1 Samuel 26:21
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H191
He goeth after her straightway, as an ox goeth to the slaughter, or as a fool to the correction of the stocks;
H191
The wise in heart will receive commandments: but a prating fool shall fall.
H191
He that winketh with the eye causeth sorrow: but a prating fool shall fall.
H3684
He that hideth hatred with lying lips, and he that uttereth a slander, is a fool.
H3684
It is as sport to a fool to do mischief: but a man of understanding hath wisdom.
H191
He that troubleth his own house shall inherit the wind: and the fool shall be servant to the wise of heart.
H191
The way of a fool is right in his own eyes: but he that hearkeneth unto counsel is wise.
H3684
Every prudent man dealeth with knowledge: but a fool layeth open his folly.
H3684
A wise man feareth, and departeth from evil: but the fool rageth, and is confident.
H191
A fool despiseth his father's instruction: but he that regardeth reproof is prudent.
H5036
Excellent speech becometh not a fool: much less do lying lips a prince.
H3684
A reproof entereth more into a wise man than an hundred stripes into a fool.
H3684
Let a bear robbed of her whelps meet a man, rather than a fool in his folly.
H3684
Wherefore is there a price in the hand of a fool to get wisdom, seeing he hath no heart to it?
H3684
He that begetteth a fool doeth it to his sorrow: and the father of a fool hath no joy.
H5036
He that begetteth a fool doeth it to his sorrow: and the father of a fool hath no joy.
H3684
Wisdom is before him that hath understanding; but the eyes of a fool are in the ends of the earth.
H191
Even a fool, when he holdeth his peace, is counted wise: and he that shutteth his lips is esteemed a man of understanding.
H3684
A fool hath no delight in understanding, but that his heart may discover itself.
H3684
Better is the poor that walketh in his integrity, than he that is perverse in his lips, and is a fool.
H3684
Delight is not seemly for a fool; much less for a servant to have rule over princes.
H191
It is an honour for a man to cease from strife: but every fool will be meddling.
H3684
Speak not in the ears of a fool: for he will despise the wisdom of thy words.
H191
Wisdom is too high for a fool: he openeth not his mouth in the gate.
H3684
As snow in summer, and as rain in harvest, so honour is not seemly for a fool.
English meaning and historical usage.
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fool
FOOL, noun [Heb.]
1. One who is destitute of reason, or the common powers of understanding; an idiot. Some persons are born fools, and are called natural fools; others may become fools by some injury done to the brain.
2. In common language, a person who is somewhat deficient in intellect, but not an idiot; or a person who acts absurdly; one who does not exercise his reason; one who pursues a course contrary to the dictates of wisdom.
Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.
3. In scripture, fool is often used for a wicked or depraved person; one who acts contrary to sound wisdom in his moral deportment; one who follows his own inclinations, who prefers trifling and temporary pleasures to the service of God and eternal happiness.
The fool hath said in his heart, there is no God. Psalms 14:1.
4. A weak christian; a godly person who has much remaining sin and unbelief.
O fools, and slow of heart to believe all the prophets have written. Luke 24:25.
Also, one who is accounted or called a fool by ungodly men. 1 Corinthians 4:10.
5. A term of indignity and reproach.
To be thought knowing, you must first put the fool upon all mankind.
6. One who counterfeits folly; a buffoon; as a king's fool
I scorn, although their drudge, to be their fool or jester.
1. To play the fool to act the buffoon; to jest; to make sport.
2. To act like one void of understanding.
To put the fool on, to impose on; to delude.
To make a fool of, to frustrate; to defeat; to disappoint.
FOOL, verb intransitive To trifle; to toy; to spend time in idleness, sport or mirth.
Is this a time for fooling?
FOOL, verb transitive
1. To treat with contempt; to disappoint; to defeat; to frustrate; to deceive; to impose on.
When I consider life, 'tis all a cheat; for fooled with hope, men favor the deceit.
2. To infatuate; to make foolish.
3. To cheat; as, to fool one out of his money.
1. To fool away, to spend in trifles, idleness, folly, or without advantage; as, to fool away time.
2. To spend for things of no value or use; to expend improvidently; as, to fool away money.
FOOL, noun A liquid made of gooseberries scalded and pounded, with cream.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.
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