Lexical Summary holelah: madness Original Word: הוֹלֵלָהTransliteration: holelah Phonetic Spelling: (ho-lay-law') Part of Speech: Noun Feminine Short Definition: madness Meaning: madness Strong's Concordance madness Feminine active participle of halal; folly -- madness. see HEBREW halal Brown-Driver-Briggs H1947. holelah [הוֺלֵלָה] noun feminine madness (on text see below), only plural הוֺלֵלוֺת הֹלֵלוֺת,, and only Ecclesiastes: Ecclesiastes 1:17 and I set my heart (לִבִּי וָאֶתְּנָה) to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly (וְשִׂכְלוּת הֹלֵלוֺת), compare הוֺלֵלוֺת 2:12 ("" id.); ה וְהַסִּכְלוּת כֶּסֶל רֶשַׁע ׳וְלָדַעַת 7:25; i.e. to know folly to be madness; possibly read חוֺלֵלוּת, compare סִכְלוּת & following; the moral evil of it is specifically recognized in 9:3 ("" רָע). |
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