Strong's Hebrew · H5531
H5531 çiklûwth
סִכְלוּת
sik-looth'
folly
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çiklûwth appears 7 times in Scripture, all in Ecclesiastes. In the Doxa app, open any verse that uses it, keep your notes on it, and ask Doxa Engage how it connects to what God has said to you.
Definition
silliness
In the King James Version
folly, foolishness.
Derivation
or שִׂכְלוּת; (Ecclesiastes 1:17), from H5528 (סָכַל);
Appears 7 times in Scripture
“I sought to cheer my body with wine and to embrace folly—my mind still guiding me with wisdom—until I could see what was worthwhile for men to do under heaven during the few days of their lives.”
“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.”
“As dead flies bring a stench to the perfumer’s oil, so a little folly outweighs wisdom and honor.”
“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?”
“The beginning of his talk is folly, and the end of his speech is evil madness.”
“And I saw that wisdom exceeds folly, just as light exceeds darkness:”
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Word study: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890, public domain), with glosses and editions from STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org); Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project (CC BY 4.0); Strong's Greek Dictionary in XML by Ulrik Sandborg-Petersen (CC0). Sources and changes Verse mappings: Berean Standard Bible interlinear tables (public domain).
