Stupidity
כְּסִילוּתStrong’s H3687kesilut (ke-si-lut)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Kesilut is the Hebrew word usually translated “folly”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“A foolish woman is clamorous: she is simple, and knoweth nothing.”
Meaning
- Foolishness, stupidity
How it's translated
- folly 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Proverbs 1
1 book in all.
Related words
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Hebrew dictionary
כְּסִילוּת kesilut · stupidity
foolishness, stupidity
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “stupidity” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
STUPIDITY, noun
[Latin]
Extreme dullness of perception or understanding; insensibility; sluggishness.
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.