Madness
הוֹלֵלָהStrong’s H1947holelah (ho-le-lah)
Appears in 4 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Holelah is the Hebrew word usually translated “madness”. It appears in 4 verses of the Old Testament.
“And I gave my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly: I perceived that this also is vexation of spirit.”
Meaning
- Madness
How it's translated
- madness 2
- and madness 2
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Ecclesiastes 4
1 book in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Ecclesiastes 2:12And I turned myself to behold wisdom, and madness, and folly: for what can the man do that cometh after the king? even that which hath been already done.
- Ecclesiastes 7:25I applied mine heart to know, and to search, and to seek out wisdom, and the reason of things, and to know the wickedness of folly, even of foolishness and madness:
- Ecclesiastes 9:3This is an evil among all things that are done under the sun, that there is one event unto all: yea, also the heart of the sons of men is full of evil, and madness is in their heart while they live, and after that they go to the dead.
Hebrew dictionary
הוֹלֵלָה holelah · madness
madness
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “madness” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
MAD'NESS, noun
[from mad.]
Distraction; a state of disordered reason or intellect, in which the patient raves or is furious.
- Extreme folly; headstrong passion and rashness that act in opposition to reason; as the madness of a mob.
- Wildness of passion; fury; rage; as the madness of despair.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.