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Strong's #5528: cakal (pronounced saw-kal')

for 3688; to be silly:--do (make, play the, turn into) fool(-ish, -ishly, -ishness).




Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

sâkal

1) to be foolish, be a fool

1a) (Piel) to make foolish, turn into foolishness

1b) (Niphal) to act or do foolishly

1c) (Hiphil) to do foolishly, play the fool

Part of Speech: verb

Relation: for H3688



Usage:

This word is used 8 times:

Genesis 31:28: "my sons and my daughters? thou hast now done foolishly in so doing."
1 Samuel 13:13: "said to Saul, Thou hast done foolishly: thou hast not kept the commandment"
1 Samuel 26:21: "in thine eyes this day: behold, I have played the fool, and have erred exceedingly."
2 Samuel 15:31: "turn the counsel of Ahithophel into foolishness."
2 Samuel 24:10: "of thy servant; for I have done very foolishly."
1 Chronicles 21:8: "the iniquity of thy servant; for I have done very foolishly."
2 Chronicles 16:9: "is perfect toward him. Herein thou hast done foolishly: therefore from henceforth"
Isaiah 44:25: "and maketh diviners mad; that turneth wise men backward, and maketh their knowledge foolish;"









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