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Strong’s H3684 · Hebrew

כְּסִיל

kᵉçîyl · kes-eel'

Origin from כָּסַל (H3688);

Meaning properly, fat, i.e. (figuratively) stupid or silly

In the King James Version fool(-ish).

In 69 verses of the King James Version

1–50 of 69

  1. Psalms 49:10For he seeth that wise men die, likewise the fool and the brutish person perish, and leave their wealth to others.
  2. Psalms 92:6A brutish man knoweth not; neither doth a fool understand this.
  3. Psalms 94:8Understand, ye brutish among the people: and ye fools, when will ye be wise?
  4. Proverbs 1:22How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge?
  5. Proverbs 1:32For the turning away of the simple shall slay them, and the prosperity of fools shall destroy them.
  6. Proverbs 3:35The wise shall inherit glory: but shame shall be the promotion of fools.
  7. Proverbs 8:5O ye simple, understand wisdom: and, ye fools, be ye of an understanding heart.
  8. Proverbs 10:1The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother.
  9. Proverbs 10:18He that hideth hatred with lying lips, and he that uttereth a slander, is a fool.
  10. Proverbs 10:23It is as sport to a fool to do mischief: but a man of understanding hath wisdom.
  11. Proverbs 12:23A prudent man concealeth knowledge: but the heart of fools proclaimeth foolishness.
  12. Proverbs 13:16Every prudent man dealeth with knowledge: but a fool layeth open his folly.
  13. Proverbs 13:19The desire accomplished is sweet to the soul: but it is abomination to fools to depart from evil.
  14. Proverbs 13:20He that walketh with wise men shall be wise: but a companion of fools shall be destroyed.
  15. Proverbs 14:7Go from the presence of a foolish man, when thou perceivest not in him the lips of knowledge.
  16. Proverbs 14:8The wisdom of the prudent is to understand his way: but the folly of fools is deceit.
  17. Proverbs 14:16A wise man feareth, and departeth from evil: but the fool rageth, and is confident.
  18. Proverbs 14:24The crown of the wise is their riches: but the foolishness of fools is folly.
  19. Proverbs 14:33Wisdom resteth in the heart of him that hath understanding: but that which is in the midst of fools is made known.
  20. Proverbs 15:2The tongue of the wise useth knowledge aright: but the mouth of fools poureth out foolishness.
  21. Proverbs 15:7The lips of the wise disperse knowledge: but the heart of the foolish doeth not so.
  22. Proverbs 15:14The heart of him that hath understanding seeketh knowledge: but the mouth of fools feedeth on foolishness.
  23. Proverbs 15:20A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish man despiseth his mother.
  24. Proverbs 17:10A reproof entereth more into a wise man than an hundred stripes into a fool.
  25. Proverbs 17:12Let a bear robbed of her whelps meet a man, rather than a fool in his folly.
  26. Proverbs 17:16Wherefore is there a price in the hand of a fool to get wisdom, seeing he hath no heart to it?
  27. Proverbs 17:21He that begetteth a fool doeth it to his sorrow: and the father of a fool hath no joy.
  28. Proverbs 17:24Wisdom is before him that hath understanding; but the eyes of a fool are in the ends of the earth.
  29. Proverbs 17:25A foolish son is a grief to his father, and bitterness to her that bare him.
  30. Proverbs 18:2A fool hath no delight in understanding, but that his heart may discover itself.
  31. Proverbs 18:6A fool’s lips enter into contention, and his mouth calleth for strokes.
  32. Proverbs 18:7A fool’s mouth is his destruction, and his lips are the snare of his soul.
  33. Proverbs 19:1Better is the poor that walketh in his integrity, than he that is perverse in his lips, and is a fool.
  34. Proverbs 19:10Delight is not seemly for a fool; much less for a servant to have rule over princes.
  35. Proverbs 19:13A foolish son is the calamity of his father: and the contentions of a wife are a continual dropping.
  36. Proverbs 19:29Judgments are prepared for scorners, and stripes for the back of fools.
  37. Proverbs 21:20There is treasure to be desired and oil in the dwelling of the wise; but a foolish man spendeth it up.
  38. Proverbs 23:9Speak not in the ears of a fool: for he will despise the wisdom of thy words.
  39. Proverbs 26:1As snow in summer, and as rain in harvest, so honour is not seemly for a fool.
  40. Proverbs 26:3A whip for the horse, a bridle for the ass, and a rod for the fool’s back.
  41. Proverbs 26:4Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest thou also be like unto him.
  42. Proverbs 26:5Answer a fool according to his folly, lest he be wise in his own conceit.
  43. Proverbs 26:6He that sendeth a message by the hand of a fool cutteth off the feet, and drinketh damage.
  44. Proverbs 26:7The legs of the lame are not equal: so is a parable in the mouth of fools.
  45. Proverbs 26:8As he that bindeth a stone in a sling, so is he that giveth honour to a fool.
  46. Proverbs 26:9As a thorn goeth up into the hand of a drunkard, so is a parable in the mouth of fools.
  47. Proverbs 26:10The great God that formed all things both rewardeth the fool, and rewardeth transgressors.
  48. Proverbs 26:11As a dog returneth to his vomit, so a fool returneth to his folly.
  49. Proverbs 26:12Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit? there is more hope of a fool than of him.
  50. Proverbs 28:26He that trusteth in his own heart is a fool: but whoso walketh wisely, he shall be delivered.

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.

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