Lexical Summary yaal: to be foolish Original Word: יָאַלTransliteration: yaal Phonetic Spelling: (yaw-al') Part of Speech: Verb Short Definition: to be foolish Meaning: to be slack, to be foolish Strong's Concordance dote, be become, do foolishly A primitive root; properly, to be slack, i.e. (figuratively) to be foolish -- dote, be (become, do) foolish(-ly). Brown-Driver-Briggs H2973. yaal I. [יָאַל] verb be foolish (compare I. אול) — Niph`al Perfect3masculine plural נוֺאֲלוּ Isaiah 19:3; Jeremiah 5:4; וְנֹאָ֑לוּ 50:36; 1plural נוֺאַלְנוּ Numbers 12:11; — do or act foolishly: — 1 shew wicked folly = sin חָטָאנוּ וַאֲשֶׁר נוֺאַלְנוּ אֲשֶׁר חַטָּאת Numbers 12:11 (J); in Jeremiah 5:4 an exhibition of this folly is ascribed to ignorance. 2 become fools, lacking insight and judgment: צֹעַן שְׂרֵי נוֺאֲלוּ Isaiah 19:13 the princes of Zoan have become fools ("" נֹף שָׂרֵי נִשְּׁאוּ, and, in 19:11 צֹעַן שָׂרֵי אֱוִילִים, etc.); וְנֹאָ֑לוּ אֶלהַֿבַּדִּים חֶדֶב Jeremiah 50:36 a sword is against the praters, and they shall become fools — be shewn up as such ("" ׃ חָֽתּוּ). |
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