Lexicon holelah: madness Original Word: הוֹלֵלוֹתPart of Speech: Noun Feminine Transliteration: holelah Phonetic Spelling: (ho-lay-law') Short Definition: madness NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originfrom halalDefinitionmadness NASB Translationinsanity (1), madness (3).
Brown-Driver-Briggs [ הוֺלֵלָה] noun feminine madness (on text see below), only plural הֹלֵלוֺת, הוֺלֵלוֺת, and only Ecclesiastes: Ecclesiastes 1:17 and I set my heart ( וָאֶתְּנָה לִבִּי) to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly ( הֹלֵלוֺת וְשִׂכְלוּת), compare הוֺלֵלוֺת Ecclesiastes 2:12 ("" id.); ׳וְלָדַעַת רֶשַׁע כֶּסֶל וְהַסִּכְלוּת ה Ecclesiastes 7:25; i.e. to know folly to be madness; possibly read חוֺלֵלוּת, compare סִכְלוּת & following; the moral evil of it is specifically recognized in Ecclesiastes 9:3 ("" רָע). Strong's madness Feminine active participle of halal; folly -- madness. see HEBREW halal |
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