# H2973 יָאַל

יָאַל (yâʼal), Strong’s H2973: properly, to be slack, i.e. (figuratively) to be foolish KJV: dote, be (become, do) foolish(-ly).. Occurs 4 times.

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*yâʼal* — properly, to be slack, i.e. (figuratively) to be foolish

KJV: dote, be (become, do) foolish(-ly).

Occurs 4 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- [יָאַל] vb. be foolish
- Niph. do or act foolishly
- 1 shew wicked folly = sin
- 2 become fools, lacking insight and judgment

## Where it occurs
- [Numbers 12:11](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/numbers/12?v=11) — Aaron said to Moses, “Oh, my lord, please don’t count this sin against us, in which we have done foolishly, and in…
- [Isaiah 19:13](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/19?v=13) — The princes of Zoan have become fools. The princes of Memphis are deceived. They have caused Egypt to go astray, those…
- [Jeremiah 5:4](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/jeremiah/5?v=4) — Then I said, “Surely these are poor. They are foolish; for they don’t know the LORD’s way, nor the law of their God.
- [Jeremiah 50:36](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/jeremiah/50?v=36) — A sword is on the boasters, and they will become fools. A sword is on her mighty men, and they will be dismayed.