# H5528 סָכַל

סָכַל (çâkal), Strong’s H5528: to be silly KJV: do (make, play the, turn into) fool(-ish, -ishly, -ishness).. Occurs 8 times.

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*çâkal* — to be silly

KJV: do (make, play the, turn into) fool(-ish, -ishly, -ishness).

Occurs 8 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- [סָכַל] vb. be foolish or a fool, usu. in moral or spiritual sense
- Piel make foolish, turn into foolishness
- Niph. act or do foolishly
- Hiph. do foolishly, play the fool

## Where it occurs
- [Genesis 31:28](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/31?v=28) — and didn’t allow me to kiss my sons and my daughters? Now you have done foolishly.
- [1 Samuel 13:13](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-samuel/13?v=13) — Samuel said to Saul, “You have done foolishly. You have not kept the commandment of the LORD your God, which he…
- [1 Samuel 26:21](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-samuel/26?v=21) — Then Saul said, “I have sinned. Return, my son David; for I will no more do you harm, because my life was precious in…
- [2 Samuel 15:31](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/2-samuel/15?v=31) — Someone told David, saying, “Ahithophel is among the conspirators with Absalom.” David said, “LORD, please turn the…
- [2 Samuel 24:10](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/2-samuel/24?v=10) — David’s heart struck him after he had counted the people. David said to the LORD, “I have sinned greatly in that which…
- [Isaiah 44:25](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/44?v=25) — who frustrates the signs of the liars, and makes diviners mad; who turns wise men backward, and makes their knowledge…
- [1 Chronicles 21:8](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-chronicles/21?v=8) — David said to God, “I have sinned greatly, in that I have done this thing. But now put away, I beg you, the iniquity of…
- [2 Chronicles 16:9](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/2-chronicles/16?v=9) — For the LORD’s eyes run back and forth throughout the whole earth, to show himself strong in the behalf of them whose…