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title: אֱוִלִי — silly · The Tanakh dictionary
description: אֱוִלִי (196), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: silly. BDB 1906: adj. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# אֱוִלִי

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«אֱוִלִי» in the Tanakh dictionary: **silly** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 1 verse in layers.

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**Used:** 1 times · **Key:** 196 · **BDB:** אֱוִלִי

### Glosses

foolish (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

silly [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/196/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

adj. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/196/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** adj. id. Zc 11:15.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (26 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (20 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «אֱוִלִי» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/196/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Zechariah 11:15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ZEC.11.15/)

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וַיֹּ֥אמֶר יְהוָ֖ה אֵלָ֑י ע֣וֹד קַח־לְךָ֔ כְּלִ֖י רֹעֶ֥ה אֱוִלִֽי׃

*Word for word:* and he.said Yahweh to me again take for yourself \[the\].equipment of.a.shepherd foolish

*JPS 1917:* And the LORD said unto me: 'Take unto thee yet the instruments of a foolish shepherd.

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