Strong’s H191 · Hebrew
אֱוִיל
ʼĕvîyl · ev-eel'
Origin from an unused root (meaning to be perverse);
Meaning (figuratively) silly
In the King James Version fool(-ish) (man).
In 26 verses of the King James Version
- Job 5:2For wrath killeth the foolish man, and envy slayeth the silly one.
- Job 5:3I have seen the foolish taking root: but suddenly I cursed his habitation.
- Psalms 107:17Fools because of their transgression, and because of their iniquities, are afflicted.
- Proverbs 1:7The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction.
- Proverbs 7:22He goeth after her straightway, as an ox goeth to the slaughter, or as a fool to the correction of the stocks;
- Proverbs 10:8The wise in heart will receive commandments: but a prating fool shall fall.
- Proverbs 10:10He that winketh with the eye causeth sorrow: but a prating fool shall fall.
- Proverbs 10:14Wise men lay up knowledge: but the mouth of the foolish is near destruction.
- Proverbs 10:21The lips of the righteous feed many: but fools die for want of wisdom.
- Proverbs 11:29He that troubleth his own house shall inherit the wind: and the fool shall be servant to the wise of heart.
- Proverbs 12:15The way of a fool is right in his own eyes: but he that hearkeneth unto counsel is wise.
- Proverbs 12:16A fool’s wrath is presently known: but a prudent man covereth shame.
- Proverbs 14:3In the mouth of the foolish is a rod of pride: but the lips of the wise shall preserve them.
- Proverbs 14:9Fools make a mock at sin: but among the righteous there is favour.
- Proverbs 15:5A fool despiseth his father’s instruction: but he that regardeth reproof is prudent.
- Proverbs 16:22Understanding is a wellspring of life unto him that hath it: but the instruction of fools is folly.
- Proverbs 17:28Even a fool, when he holdeth his peace, is counted wise: and he that shutteth his lips is esteemed a man of understanding.
- Proverbs 20:3It is an honour for a man to cease from strife: but every fool will be meddling.
- Proverbs 24:7Wisdom is too high for a fool: he openeth not his mouth in the gate.
- Proverbs 27:3A stone is heavy, and the sand weighty; but a fool’s wrath is heavier than them both.
- Proverbs 27:22Though thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar among wheat with a pestle, yet will not his foolishness depart from him.
- Proverbs 29:9If a wise man contendeth with a foolish man, whether he rage or laugh, there is no rest.
- Isaiah 19:11Surely the princes of Zoan are fools, the counsel of the wise counsellers of Pharaoh is become brutish: how say ye unto Pharaoh, I am the son of the wise, the son of ancient kings?
- Isaiah 35:8And an highway shall be there, and a way, and it shall be called The way of holiness; the unclean shall not pass over it; but it shall be for those: the wayfaring men, though fools, shall not err therein.
- Jeremiah 4:22For my people is foolish, they have not known me; they are sottish children, and they have none understanding: they are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.
- Hosea 9:7The days of visitation are come, the days of recompence are come; Israel shall know it: the prophet is a fool, the spiritual man is mad, for the multitude of thine iniquity, and the great hatred.
From James Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890): its Greek dictionary in the edition of Ulrik Petersen, its Hebrew and Chaldee dictionary in that of David Troidl and David Instone-Brewer; the King James words numbered as in the edition the site sets the King James Version from. Public domain.