Biblical Hebrew

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hebrew #3688 - כָּסַל kasal


Original Word:כָּסַל
Transliteration: kasal
Phonetic Spelling:(kaw-sal')
Definition:to be or become stupid
Part of Speech:Verb
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Strong's Exhaustive Concordance

be foolish

A primitive root; properly, to be fat, i.e. (figuratively) silly -- be foolish.


Englishman's Concordance

1) (Qal) to be foolish, be stupid
Part of Speech: verb
A Related Word by BDB/Strong’s Number: a primitive root
Same Word by TWOT Number: 1011

Brown-Driver-Briggs

[כָסַל] verbbe or become stupid (Late Hebrew Aramaic in derivatives; Arabic be sluggish, so North Syriac in derivatives; original meaning possibly thick, plump, fat; hence in good sense: כְּסָלִיםloins, כֶּסֶל, כִּסְלָהconfidence; in bad sense: כֶּסֶל, כִּסְלָה, כְּסִילוּתstupidity, folly, כְּסִילstupid fellow) —

QalImperfectיִכְסָ֑לוּthey become stupidJeremiah 10:8 ("" יִבְעֲרוּthey become brutish).


Englishman's Concordance (References)

Strong's Hebrew: 3688. כָּסַל (kasal) — 1 Occurrence

Jeremiah 10:8
HEB:וּבְאַחַ֖ת יִבְעֲר֣וּ וְיִכְסָ֑לוּ מוּסַ֥ר הֲבָלִ֖ים
NAS: stupid and foolish [In their] discipline
KJV: brutish and foolish: the stock
INT: are altogether stupid and foolish discipline of delusion

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