Madness
הוֹלֵלוּתStrong’s H1948holelut (ho-le-lut)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Holelut is the Hebrew word usually translated “madness”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“The beginning of the words of his mouth is foolishness: and the end of his talk is mischievous madness.”
Meaning
- Madness
How it's translated
- madness 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Ecclesiastes 1
1 book in all.
Explore in Scripture
Hebrew dictionary
הוֹלֵלוּת holelut · 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.