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title: כְּסִילוּת — stupidity · The Tanakh dictionary
description: כְּסִילוּת (3687), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: stupidity. BDB 1906: n.f. stupidity. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# כְּסִילוּת

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«כְּסִילוּת» in the Tanakh dictionary: **stupidity** — 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:** 3687 · **BDB:** כְּסִילוּת

### Glosses

of.folly (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

stupidity [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3687/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.f. stupidity [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3687/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. stupidity;—Pr 9:13 אֵשֶׁת כ׳, the woman Stupidity, in antithesis with חָכְמוֹת the Supreme Wisdom personified as a woman.

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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 (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (2 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «כְּסִילוּת» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3687/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Proverbs 9:13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.9.13/)

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אֵ֣שֶׁת כְּ֭סִילוּת הֹֽמִיָּ֑ה פְּ֝תַיּ֗וּת וּבַל־יָ֥דְעָה מָּֽה׃

*Word for word:* a.woman of.folly \[is\].boisterous naiveté and not she.knows whatever

*JPS 1917:* The woman Folly is riotous; she is thoughtless, and knoweth nothing.

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