1947. holelah
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holelah: madness
Original Word: הוֹלֵלוֹת
Part of Speech: Noun Feminine
Transliteration: holelah
Phonetic Spelling: (ho-lay-law')
Short Definition: madness

NAS Exhaustive Concordance
Word Origin
from halal
Definition
madness
NASB Translation
insanity (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

1946
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