# H5530 סָכָל

סָכָל (çâkâl), Strong’s H5530: silly KJV: fool(-ish), sottish.. Occurs 7 times.

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*çâkâl* — silly

KJV: fool(-ish), sottish.

Derived from [סָכַל çâkal](https://besorah.bible/word/H5528) (to be silly)

Occurs 7 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- סָכָל n.m. fool

## Where it occurs
- [Jeremiah 4:22](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/jeremiah/4?v=22) — “For my people are foolish. They don’t know me. They are foolish children, and they have no understanding. They are…
- [Jeremiah 5:21](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/jeremiah/5?v=21) — ‘Hear this now, foolish people without understanding, who have eyes, and don’t see, who have ears, and don’t hear:
- [Ecclesiastes 2:19](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/ecclesiastes/2?v=19) — Who knows whether he will be a wise man or a fool? Yet he will have rule over all of my labor in which I have labored…
- [Ecclesiastes 7:17](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/ecclesiastes/7?v=17) — Don’t be too wicked, neither be foolish. Why should you die before your time?
- [Ecclesiastes 10:3](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/ecclesiastes/10?v=3) — Yes also when the fool walks by the way, his understanding fails him, and he says to everyone that he is a fool.
- [Ecclesiastes 10:14](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/ecclesiastes/10?v=14) — A fool also multiplies words. Man doesn’t know what will be; and that which will be after him, who can tell him?