Strong's Hebrew · H1947
הוֹלֵלָה
hôwlêlâh · ho-lay-law'
madness.
Definition
folly
Derivation
feminine active participle of H1984 (הָלַל);
Appears 4 times in Scripture
“This is an evil in everything that is done under the sun: There is one fate for everyone. Furthermore, the hearts of men are full of evil and madness while they are alive, and afterward they join the dead.”
“So I set my mind to know wisdom and madness and folly; I learned that this, too, is a pursuit of the wind.”
“I directed my mind to understand, to explore, to search out wisdom and explanations, and to understand the stupidity of wickedness and the folly of madness.”
“Then I turned to consider wisdom and madness and folly; for what more can the king’s successor do than what has already been accomplished?”
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Lexicon: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890, public domain), digital edition by Open Scriptures (CC BY-SA). Verse mappings: Berean Standard Bible interlinear tables (public domain).