אֱוִיל evil
Hebrew word for “fool(ish)” · Strong’s H191 · used 26 times in 26 verses
Meaning
1) be foolish, foolish;
How it is translated
Glosses given for evil in context, with how often each is used:
- fool 19
- fools 7
Where it is used
Chapters where it is used most
Proverbs 10 (4), Job 5 (2), Proverbs 12 (2), Proverbs 14 (2), Proverbs 27 (2), Psalms 107 (1), Proverbs 1 (1), Proverbs 7 (1), Proverbs 11 (1), Proverbs 15 (1)
Forms
- אויל 14
- אולים 4
- לאויל 2
- ואויל 2
- ואוילים 2
- אוילים 1
- האויל 1
Words used with it
Words that share verses with evil more often than their overall frequency would suggest:
- חָכָם chakham “wise” 9
- שָׂפָה saphah “lips” 5
- מוּסָר musar “discipline” 4
- כַּעַס kaas “vexation” 3
- לָבַט lavat “to ruin” 2
- אִוֶּלֶת ivvelet “folly” 2
- פִּתְאֹם pitom “suddenly” 2
- פֶּה peh “lip” 3
- עֵצָה etsah “counsel” 2
- לֵב lev “heart” 3
- דַּעַת daat “knowledge” 2
- דֶּרֶךְ derekh “way” 3
Key verses
The verses using evil that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):
- Job 5:2 — For wrath killeth the foolish man, and envy slayeth the silly one.
- Job 5:3 — I have seen the foolish taking root: but suddenly I cursed his habitation.
- Psalms 107:17 — Fools because of their transgression, and because of their iniquities, are afflicted.
- Proverbs 1:7 — The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction.
- Proverbs 10:21 — The lips of the righteous feed many: but fools die for want of wisdom.
- Proverbs 12:15 — The way of a fool is right in his own eyes: but he that hearkeneth unto counsel is wise.
- Proverbs 15:5 — A fool despiseth his father’s instruction: but he that regardeth reproof is prudent.
- Proverbs 27:22 — Though thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar among wheat with a pestle, yet will not his foolishness depart from him.
- Isaiah 19:11 — Surely the princes of Zoan are fools, the counsel of the wise counsellors of Pharaoh is become brutish: how say ye unto Pharaoh, I am the son of the wise, the…
- Isaiah 35:8 — And an highway shall be there, and a way, and it shall be called The way of holiness; the unclean shall not pass over it; but it shall be for those: the…
- Jeremiah 4:22 — For my people is foolish, they have not known me; they are sottish children, and they have none understanding: they are wise to do evil, but to do good they…
- Hosea 9:7 — The days of visitation are come, the days of recompence are come; Israel shall know the prophet is a fool, the spiritual man is mad, for the multitude of thine…
See all 26 verses in the Word Atlas
Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.