Lexical Summary sakal: to be foolish or a fool Original Word: סָכַלTransliteration: sakal Phonetic Spelling: (saw-kal') Part of Speech: Verb Short Definition: to be foolish or a fool Meaning: to be foolish or a fool Strong's Concordance be silly, play the foolFor kacal; to be silly -- do (make, play the, turn into) fool(-ish, -ishly, -ishness). see HEBREW kacal Brown-Driver-Briggs H5528. sakal [סָכַל] verb be foolish, or a fool, usually in moral or spititual sense (Syriac Aph`el act foolishly; foolish, etc., סְכַל ᵑ7 derived species, act foolishly; סַכְלָא fool; Christian-Palestinian Aramaic , Aph`el = ἁμαρτάνω, also derivatives SchwIdioticon 62; Assyrian saklu, perhaps foolish, DlHWB 498; Aramaic סְכַל know, be intelligent, cause to understand, etc. (derived species), compare שׂכל; MeiChrest. Targ. derives both these opposite meanings from Arabic form, likeness. Gerber178 thinks Hebrew verb denominative); — Piel Imperfect יְסַכֵּל Isaiah 44:25, Imperative סַכֶּלנָֿא 2 Samuel 15:31, make foolish, turn into foolishness. Niph`al Perfect2masculine singular נִסְכַּלְתָּ2 Chronicles 16:9; נִסְכָּ֑לְתָּ 1 Samuel 13:13; 1singular נִסְכַּלְתִּי 2 Samuel 24:10 = 1 Chronicles 21:8, act or do foolishly. Hiph`il Perfect2masculine singular הִסְכַּלְתָּ Genesis 31:28 (E), 1 singular הִסְכַּלְתִּי 1 Samuel 26:21, do foolishly, play the fool. |