STRONGS NUMBER H5528


Word Summary
sakal: to be foolish or a fool
Original Word: סָכַל
Transliteration: 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 fool

For 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; סַכְלָאfool; Christian-Palestinian Aramaic , Aph`el = ἁμαρτάνω, also derivatives SchwIdioticon 62; Assyrian saklu, perhaps foolish, DlHWB 498; Aramaic סְכַלknow, 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 יְסַכֵּלIsaiah 44:25, Imperative סַכֶּלנָֿא2 Samuel 15:31, make foolish, turn into foolishness.

Niph`al Perfect2masculine singular נִסְכַּלְתָּ2 Chronicles 16:9; נִסְכָּ֑לְתָּ1 Samuel 13:13; 1singular נִסְכַּלְתִּי2 Samuel 24:10 = 1 Chronicles 21:8, act or do foolishly.

Hiph`il Perfect2masculine singular הִסְכַּלְתָּGenesis 31:28 (E), 1 singular הִסְכַּלְתִּי1 Samuel 26:21, do foolishly, play the fool.