Occurrences
ʼĕvîyl occurs 26 times in the King James.
Distribution of the word across the Bible: Job (2), Psalms (1), Proverbs (19), Isaiah (2), Jeremiah (1), Hosea (1)
- Job 5:2 — For wrath killeth the foolish (לֶֽ֭אֱוִיל) man, and envy slayeth the silly one.
- Job 5:3 — I have seen the foolish (אֱוִ֣יל) taking root: but suddenly I cursed his habitation.
- Psalms 107:17 — Fools (אֱ֭וִלִים) 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 (אֱוִילִ֥ים) despise wisdom and instruction.
- Proverbs 7:22 — He goeth after her straightway, as an ox goeth to the slaughter, or as a fool (אֱוִֽיל) to the correction of the stocks;
- Proverbs 10:8 — The wise in heart will receive commandments: but a prating fool (וֶאֱוִ֥יל) shall fall.
- Proverbs 10:10 — He that winketh with the eye causeth sorrow: but a prating fool (וֶאֱוִ֥יל) shall fall.
- Proverbs 10:14 — Wise men lay up knowledge: but the mouth of the foolish (אֱ֝וִיל) is near destruction.
- Proverbs 10:21 — The lips of the righteous feed many: but fools (וֶֽ֝אֱוִילִ֗ים) die for want of wisdom.
- Proverbs 11:29 — He that troubleth his own house shall inherit the wind: and the fool (אֱ֝וִ֗יל) shall be servant to the wise of heart.
- Proverbs 12:15 — The way of a fool (אֱ֭וִיל) is right in his own eyes: but he that hearkeneth unto counsel is wise.
- Proverbs 12:16 — A fool’s (אֱוִ֗יל) wrath is presently known: but a prudent man covereth shame.
- Proverbs 14:3 — In the mouth of the foolish (אֱ֭וִיל) is a rod of pride: but the lips of the wise shall preserve them.
- Proverbs 14:9 — Fools (אֱ֭וִלִים) make a mock at sin: but among the righteous there is favour.
- Proverbs 15:5 — A fool (אֱוִ֗יל) despiseth his father’s instruction: but he that regardeth reproof is prudent.
- Proverbs 16:22 — Understanding is a wellspring of life unto him that hath it: but the instruction of fools (אֱוִלִ֣ים) is folly.
- Proverbs 17:28 — Even a fool (אֱוִ֣יל), when he holdeth his peace, is counted wise: and he that shutteth his lips is esteemed a man of understanding.
- Proverbs 20:3 — It is an honour for a man to cease from strife: but every fool (אֱ֝וִ֗יל) will be meddling.
- Proverbs 24:7 — Wisdom is too high for a fool (לֶֽאֱוִ֣יל): he openeth not his mouth in the gate.
- Proverbs 27:3 — A stone is heavy, and the sand weighty; but a fool’s (אֱ֝וִ֗יל) wrath is heavier than them both.
- Proverbs 27:22 — Though thou shouldest bray a fool (הָאֱוִ֨יל) in a mortar among wheat with a pestle, yet will not his foolishness depart from him.
- Proverbs 29:9 — If a wise man contendeth with a foolish (אֱוִ֑יל) man, whether he rage or laugh, there is no rest.
- Isaiah 19:11 — Surely the princes of Zoan are fools (אֱוִלִים֙), the counsel of the wise counsellors of Pharaoh is become brutish: how say ye unto Pharaoh, I am the son of the wise, the son of ancient kings?
- 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 wayfaring men, though fools (וֶאֱוִילִ֖ים), shall not err therein.
- Jeremiah 4:22 — For my people is foolish (אֱוִ֣יל), 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 have no knowledge.
- Hosea 9:7 — The days of visitation are come, the days of recompence are come; Israel shall know it: the prophet is a fool (אֱוִ֣יל), the spiritual man is mad, for the multitude of thine iniquity, and the great hatred.