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title: כָּסַל — be stupid · The Tanakh dictionary
description: כָּסַל (3688), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: be stupid. BDB 1906: vb. become stupid. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# כָּסַל

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«כָּסַל» in the Tanakh dictionary: **be stupid** — 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:** 3688 · **BDB:** כָּסַל

### Glosses

they.are.foolish (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

be stupid [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3688/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

vb. become stupid [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3688/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** vb. be or become stupid (NH Aramaic in deriv.; Arabic كَسِلَ be sluggish, so N Syriac in deriv.; orig. meaning possibly thick, plump, fat; hence in good sense: כְּסָלִים, loins, כֶּסֶל, כִּסְלָה confidence; in bad sense: כֶּסֶל, כִּסְלָה, כְּסִילוּת stupidity, folly, כְּסִיל stupid fellow)— Impf. יִכְסָ֑לוּ they become stupid Je 10:8 (‖ יִבְעֲרוּ they become brutish).

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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 (6 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (6 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «כָּסַל» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3688/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Jeremiah 10:8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.10.8/)

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וּבְאַחַ֖ת יִבְעֲר֣וּ וְיִכְסָ֑לוּ מוּסַ֥ר הֲבָלִ֖ים עֵ֥ץ הֽוּא׃

*Word for word:* and in one they.are.stupid and they.are.foolish \[the\].correction of.futilities \[is\].wood it

*JPS 1917:* But they are altogether brutish and foolish: the vanities by which they are instructed are but a stock;

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